The saloons all over the upper Sacramento Canyon continued to operate on a regular basis despite prohibition, and by the repeal of 1933 every saloon and tavern owners had been arrested numerous times.
The old timers say the enforcement was by two different authorities during the 1920's. Shasta County Sheriff's deputies would make raids in the county, while the District Attorney's office had a dry squad of its own. An agreement was made with the sheriff officers so that they seldom raided the stills or saloons, but the District Attorney Jesse Carter's officers conducted their raids on a regular basis.
Then in 1923 Mike Padlua's Shasta View Hotel was the site of a shotgun shooting, in which a patron was killed and a federal officer wounded. The Federal Offices increased the raids on the stills and saloons forcing the bootleggers to pack up and move deeper into the woods or close down. The arrests at the local saloons increased. The raids continued until the prohibition repeal in 1933. Doing this ten-year period no saloon in Castella, California went out of business.
MIKE PADULA'S SALOON
Mike Pudula, 5'-0'', Ball headed and a fine Italian man Owner and operator of Mike's Place and the Shasta View Hotel,
Mike Pudula build a large saloon in Castella, California in the early 1920's next to the Castella Post Office which was located across the street from where the Southern Pacific passenger train the " Castella Flyer" stopped and unload passengers that just arrived at the Castella Station from the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley.
Most of the visitors would ride the train up to for the weekend and stay at one of the many resorts in the area . Sweetbrier Resort, Crag View Resort. The first stop after a long and hot train ride from the Sacramento valley would be Mike Padlua's Place for a cold refreshment.
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