Name/Title
First and Last Chance Saloon (Vincent)Description
Up to and after World War I, Pinole had 13 plus saloons, with spittoons and sawdust covered floors and all doing a brisk business. Pinole’s many hotels and rooming houses boarded many single men who worked at the Hercules Powder Company and spent their wages in Pinole’s taverns. Jimmy Silvas’s Golden West Hotel was on the southwest corner of Tennent and San Pablo avenues. Across the street, north of San Pablo, was the Swenson and Lewis Saloon, later the Antlers Tavern, owned by Jack Silva. Further down Tennent next to the Forester’s Hall (later the opera house), was John Collins’s Klondike Saloon. The last saloon on Tennent was the First and Last Chance, run by John and Charles Vincent. It was so called because it was the first saloon you came to when entering Pinole from the S.P. depot, and the last saloon for a drink before you left town on the train.Copyright
Copyright Holder
Pinole Historical Society