Olga, NoDak

From: Carol Steffen
To: Kate Stevenson

I just took a brief tour of your homepage. You go girl!
It was really neat, but one suggestion... Do you really think you can promote the Rendezvous Region without mentioning the Olga Bar? :^) Cocoa would be so disappointed to know he was not included.

Later, Carol Jo

Kate's response:

My deepest apologies to Carol Jo and all the people and descendents of people of Olga! How could I forget to mention Olga, with the French Catholic Notre Dame du Sacré Coeur's magnificent pre-Vatican-II statuary, the cemetery with more Beauchamps, Benoits and Gadaires than one could imagine, the town hall that still has dances, the handful of people that still live there and, of course, the Olga Bar (where Carol Jo's second cousin Cocoa Beauchamp presided until he sold it a few years ago).

The Olga Bar is one of those classic miniature NoDak dive bars whose main purpose is to make it easy for the patrolmen to issue DUI's. The bar, which sits adjacent to the grand Catholic church, has the unique attribute of listing so many degrees off plumb that it has the feel of one of those gravity houses where little steel marbles can be made to roll uphill. The restrooms are located downhill, with the wall between the ladies' and men's rooms on a direct line from the lone pool table. It is a local pastime to note when the pool shooters have become so inebriated that they can no longer break their momentum on the trip down to the men's room and wind up slamming into the oil painting of the scantilly-clad senorita instead of turning left into the loo.

PHOTO: Note the shadow of the spire of Notre Dame du Sacré Coeur of Olga pointing an admonishing finger at the lone customer of the Olga Bar.