HomeThis Day in HistoryLMUD Presents: This Day in Susanville History - July 20th, 1947

LMUD Presents: This Day in Susanville History – July 20th, 1947

Friday, July 20th, 2018

218

The St. Francis Hotel, Main and Union Streets, in the late 1940’s. From an Eastman Studios postcard.

Lassen Closing Hour Unchanged
July 20th, 1947

Susanville’s bars and restaurants serving liquor, nightclubs and similar businesses will continue to close at midnight it was decided unanimously at a meeting of representatives of 13 establishments.

Those to observe the midnight closing hour, each day of the week including Saturday, include all places that serve liquor in Susanville and immediate vicinity.

There are no places which will open before 8 o’clock in the morning, although the legal opening hour is 6 a. m.

On July 1^st, it became legal for liquor-serving establishments to remain open until 2 a. m. instead of the midnight closing law.