Dinner in a Gold Rush Saloon
Auburn
Jan. 15, 2006
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We pass the tall, neoclassical dome in Auburn everytime
we go up or down I-80 to and from the snows, but we never have
time to stop. This time, we headed up a day early,
checked into a cheap roadside motel, and spent the evening
wandering around this Gold Rush town, dropping a few
dollars at curio shops and enjoying a surprisingly tasty
meal of light California cuisine fireside at The Bootlegger.
After dinner, we wandered into a shop for some fresh chocolates
while joking that the place looked like it dropped out of a Thomas
Kinkade painting ... just about the time we noticed the Thomas
Kinkade print hanging on the wall of the shop, showing
a scene of downtown Auburn glowing at twilight. (Apparently, he
grew up in Placerville, just down the road.)
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