The Crag View Resort, where Mike first went to work, was a hotel complete with restaurant, cabins open -air dance hall; tennis courts and swimming pool Remnants of its former glory are still there.
The Engle Inn Resort (now the Country Craftsmen) was also a center of activity and was we'll-known throughout the state. It had a dining room, many stone cabins and two mineral springs, each with a
different type water. City folks bathed in it and took jugs of it home. The stone cabin, which is now closest to the river, was originally a bathhouse. Herbert Hoover, an avid fisherman, was so taken with the beauty of Castella that he stayed a week at the Engle Inn.
Right down the road from Amos's Hotel was Mike's Place. It was the good old roaring twenties and it was also the beginning of his fortune -slaking the great public thirst caused by prohibition.
Castella supported a few remarkable bootleg joints. One, north of town on the old road, was complete with a dumb-waiter for stashing away booze in case of a raid. And it was rumored that one saloon had two bars in the same building so that if one side was closed down, the other could be opened in a matter of minutes when the heat was off.
Mike had a couple of close calls with death. He had one narrow escape in the old Castella Hotel during a prohibition raid only this time he was a customer. But he ducked just in time the bullets went over his head and killed a United States Marshal
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