Celebration at Forbidden City Nightclub

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Bethel Holmes

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10/02/2002

Celebration at Forbidden City Nightclub

My husband Raymond went out to California the winter of 1945. He & his mother bought a 3 acre farm in Alamo. We moved out in January & drove right to the house & moved in. My mother-in-law soon left her house in Berkeley & moved in with us. We went to dinner many times at Forbidden City in San Francisco, a Chinese showroom that featured the best Chinese singers. Bethel, Ruthie Wong, Janice, & Richard Van Tassell.

Date & Place: 1946

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Bethel Holmes

Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.

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