When I was a sophomore, attending Montclair High in New Jersey, my father, who was a labor negotiator for the United Auto Workers (UAW)/AFL-CIO, decided he wanted to travel and put in his application with…
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The fall of ‘66 and I was attending Douglass, the women’s college of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, wearing Bass Wejuuns penny loafers, preppy v-neck tennis sweaters and ironing my hair in preparation…
“My story of the Palace Hotel is a love story — the first love of my life.” Born in Ukiah, on her mother’s side, Wendy Mae Thomas (née McCallum) goes back four generations in Ukiah…
It was the summer of 1978 and I got word that Bob Larman, the new chef in town at the soon-to-be-opened Palace Bar & Grill, was looking for a kitchen manager. I was qualified. The…