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Sonora's golden history is well preserved. A restored gold-rush town at the Columbia State Historic Park has a blacksmith shop, saloon and gold mine. Other historical attractions include the Tuolumne County Museum, located in a 100-year-old jail, and Railtown 1897, in nearby Jamestown, where visitors can ride on the Sierra Railroad and tour a railroad museum. For a trip back in time that will last your whole stay, consider lodging at the City Hotel, a 140-year-old 10-room inn with mystery weekends and ghost walking tours...
CHARLIE'S EATING AND DRINKING SALOON...
...surprisingly good lobster quesadilla, and landubbers can dig into several decent pasta dishes as well. Good-old-boy memorabilia dot the dark wood walls and makes the place feel like a final club. For a more laid-back atmosphere and the same high-end menu, sit in the saloon downstairs...
...character. Leaving aside for the moment the question of how the Rat Pack may have gotten its name, consider: If Frank Sinatra had been angry at communists, would he have sneakily tattled on them? Of course not. He and his pal Jilly Rizzo would have headed for the nearest saloon where the dirty reds hang out, picked out the smallest and beat the living daylights...
...soundly rebuffed. So in 1904 he raised $150,000 from his stepfather and 10 friends and opened the Bank of Italy--in a converted saloon directly across the street from the Columbus S&L. He kept the bartender on as an assistant teller. There he began to exploit his guiding principle: that there was money to made lending to the little guy. He promoted deposits and loans by ringing doorbells and buttonholing people on the street, painstakingly explaining what a bank does. Traditional bankers were aghast. It was considered unethical to solicit banking business...