AOR 2.3 · Dennis Nolan
Virginia City
AOR 2.3 HANDBILL WITH RED DOG SALOON IMPRINT
Before there was a Fillmore, before there was an Avalon, before anyone in San Francisco had printed a dance-concert poster, there was a saloon in the Nevada desert. The Red Dog Saloon sat on C Street in Virginia City, a Comstock silver town that had been slowly emptying since the 1870s. In the summer of 1965 a group of San Franciscans took it over and ran it as a music hall — the Charlatans in residence, dressed in…
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