George McDow, Jr. was born in Susanville in 1910, which that community was the verge on boom times, that never was replicated. George wrote his memoirs about those experience those twenty years. He spent considerable time at Chester  during summer of 1924. George wrote:

“The only store in Chester was operated by Jack Wardlow, who also had a dance hall next-door to the store. On Saturday nights and some holidays he would stage public dances. These attracted a lot of people from Westwood, even some Greenville and Susanville. The law in the area consisted of a Plumas County Deputy Sheriff. He had his hands full on Saturday nights jut keeping the peace, with no time to hassle the bootleggers, who sat in their cars, a few yards away in the dark and dispensed flasks of moonshine to the thirsty dancers, or anyone else who cared to imbibe. I soon learned that by arising early Sunday mornings, I would take a gunnysack, walk along the old split rail fences, which were then along Chester’s Main Street, and I could pick up nearly a sack-full empty flasks. It was not hard to find the town’s chief moonshine merchant. He would pay what I considered a fair price for my collection of empties. This provided me with spending money for fish hooks and occasional ice cream cone.”

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