Vincent Goetz:  

A little history. After leaving Granada Hills I graduated from Taft High in 1970. Moved to hermosa Beach and surfed for a year, and then started traveling. Found Yosemite in late 1971 and spent the next five years there, climbing, doing SAR work, and working for the National Park Service as a Ranger for three summers. They offered me a career position but I declined and bartended at the Awhahnee Hotel instead. Move to Sonora in late 1975 and tended bar in Jamestown at the Hotel Willow for most of the next five years. In 1980 I moved to San Francisco and tended bar at Perry's, Prego, Perry's in Marin, Amelios' and MacArthur Park. Took a year off in 1985 and hung out in North Beach trying to figure out what I wanted to do next. Eventually went into banking and became a Commercial Lender, working for Security Pacific. Within a year I moved to Napa, working for a community bank, where I stayed until 2000. Moved to Reno and worked for. few banks, before returning to Napa in 2004. My last bank was purchased by a competitor, and after a year I went out on my own as a consultant, hel...Expand for more