Chris Smith
Columnist at The Press Democrat
Articles
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1 week ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
For decades in and around Guerneville, the fellow known as Itchy — or, less formally, Itch — drove a king-size, orange tow truck that he called The Great Pumpkin and that hauled all manner of vehicles out of all sorts of unfavorable situations. Itchy’s seldom-used official name was Winston Huber Loundagin.
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3 weeks ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
It’s unthinkable that riders on horseback would gather in large numbers anywhere in the rugged, rural expanses of central-eastern Mendocino County — and Brian and Rochelle Beeson wouldn’t be there. Yet, that’s what happened on Sunday, May 18, as a long procession of western mounts and motor vehicles moved somberly along a 5-mile route from Potter Valley’s rodeo grounds to its cemetery.
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1 month ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
For many in and beyond Santa Rosa’s Rincon Valley who were close to Jose Anaya, his carnitas and quesadillas suiza were bonuses of the friendships. Anaya and his wife, Lorena, for almost 30 years welcomed guests into their family’s neighborhood restaurant in the shopping center on Montecito Boulevard at Middle Rincon Road.
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1 month ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Lee Torliatt was a native-born Sonoma County high school teacher, newspaper reporter and author of local history who seemed born to write and tell stories — most of them true. The lean and lanky Torliatt, who died April 12 at 92, possessed a wit as sharp and dry as a Bedouin’s dagger. He savored causing people to ponder whether something outlandish that he said or wrote was a joke.
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1 month ago |
petaluma360.com | Chris Smith
Finally discharged from the hospital in 1959, Lee Torliatt, then 26, enrolled at what was then called San Francisco State College. To help pay the bills, he worked summers on the copy desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Ryo became a luncheon hostess at the landmark Trader Vic’s restaurant, where she met the likes of newspaperman Herb Caen, French singer-actor Maurice Chevalier and Nina Kukharchuk, future wife of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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