Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Those were the days of "local option." From time to time Newport Beach was either "dry" or "wet". And purchased the back bar from an authentic gold rush-style saloon and installed it in his saloon. To ensure that no one would have any doubt as to the business being located there, Mr. This bar has been known during the last 87 years either as "Stark's" or "Sid's Blue Beet." In 1912 (a year after I was born) a man named Henry Stark opened a saloon on that street. It is located on that funny little half street knows as 21st Street in old Newport Beach. ![]() This is an abbreviated history of the oldest bar in Newport Beach. Because I like both Sid and Judge Susie I shall say nothing more about their differences of opinion however, since Sid is an integral part of the following article I felt I should explain his absence. I suppose that if you can't live in Newport Beach, living in Las Vegas is better than living in Siberia or Afghanistan. As a result of this difference of opinion, Sid is living in Las Vegas. Anyway, to simplify the matter, Judge Susie wants to put Sid in jail, Sid doesn't want to go to jail. ![]() ![]() The origins of this difference are lost in the shades of antiquity or, as we lawyers say, "Beyond which the memory of man runneth naught." You can't beat us lawyers when it comes to screwing up an easy concept. The Reason? A Difference of opinion between Sid and Judge Susie Shaw. Sid Soffer has been a fugitive longer than David Janssen. ![]()
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