Hey Jud! Grab a cup of coffee and a pastry! Listen to some cool iconic jazz! Bring your pen and ink to doodle! Let’s join the city council for breakfast at the Friendly Kitchen. Later, we can drop down to Spreckels Theatre and catch the Kitchen Kutups.
August 12, 1925, 100 years ago, you came squalling into this world. You had plenty to say and didn’t stop until March of 2018. You lived and died a newsman, grumpy editor, curmudgeon reporter, off-the-cuff artist, cool cat lover of jazz.
For nearly half a century Jud Snyder made the news in and around Cotati and Rohnert Park lively, jocular, and sometimes hot for the would-be local yokel politicos. Your pastry crumbs and empty stale coffee cups littered the august city council auditoriums and school libraries as you jotted down the not-so-epic words of local orators…