Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

The corner building at 17th and J Streets housed the original Sam's Hof Brau in 1955 and Hamburger Mary's decades later - and from 2014 to 2025 it was midtown Sacramento's honky-tonk. Goldfield Trading Post, at 1630 J Street, closed on 23 November 2025 when its lease expired and its owners consolidated operations at their newer Roseville location. The venue was opened in August 2014 by Eric Rushing and Bret Bair - the team behind Sacramento's Ace of Spades - together with the owners of the Tank House barbecue joint, converting the storied corner into a country-and-rock bar with a stage that punched above its size. Jon Pardi and Brad Paisley afterparties christened the opening weekend. The formula mixed free line-dancing lessons, country-band karaoke, open-mic nights and beer pong with a serious booking calendar: rising Nashville acts, red-dirt country, punk and rock bills all rotated through, and the venue broadened well beyond its country roots over the decade. Flako's Takos ran the kitchen in later years, feeding urban cowboys through lunch, dinner and late-night service. The brand outlived the address: a second Goldfield opened on Vernon Street in downtown Roseville in 2021 and proved successful enough that the owners bought its building outright in 2024, then chose to focus there when the midtown lease ran out. The Sacramento closure ended more than a decade of country music at a corner that had hosted live acts since the Hof Brau's blues nights in the 1950s. The J Street building - one block from the Memorial Auditorium and amid midtown's bar corridor - awaits its next tenant; the Goldfield name continues in Roseville with the same line-dancing, live-music formula. The farewell was suitably loud: the club packed its final November weekend with send-off shows and a last round of country karaoke before the lights went out on 23 November 2025. The closure also closed a 70-year loop for the corner itself - Sam's Hof Brau had made 17th and J a live-music address as far back as the 1950s, and successive tenants kept some form of stage in the building for most of the decades since, a run of continuity few Sacramento corners can match.