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Any of you NorCal folks ever drink a beer at the Golden West, Fort Bragg? Awesome bunch of old timey logging photos there. Used to love to gaze at them over a beer or five. Great bar.
Well, I gotta say, if anyone is rolling through Fort Bragg, CA, go to the Golden West. Cheap beer, last bar around you can smoke in (if the only employee, the owner, is still alive), fine shuffleboard table, but most of all, a fantastic bunch of photos of the good old days of logging. Good atmosphere. Probably a pool table too, can't remember for sure....
Spent more than one rainy northern CA evening there.
Well, I gotta say, if anyone is rolling through Fort Bragg, CA, go to the Golden West. Cheap beer, last bar around you can smoke in (if the only employee, the owner, is still alive), fine shuffleboard table, but most of all, a fantastic bunch of photos of the good old days of logging. Good atmosphere. Probably a pool table too, can't remember for sure....
Spent more than one rainy northern CA evening there.
Fort Bragg, as a kid I remember many acres of cold decks, all old growth. I've never been to the Golden West, I do know the Sawblade in Phillipsville, I tossed a friend through a window at the old bar in Alton CA.
The Golden West is a prominent landmark for that area as mentioned in Jerry Beranek's book on High Climbers and Timber Fallers...
Yeah, brawls were fun, they worked out the kinks in the cable.
Another good dive that is long gone was Dorsey's in Orick.
Hey Cody, let's have beer with Redwood Logger in Blue Lake.
Dang! I wish I would have been more of a drinkin man back then I lived in an r.v. park in Bragg for a couple of months and never went there...Dang it:bang:I do remember eating an awesome bowl of clam chowder at a restaurant on the docks there though.
Sounds good...other than I would have to drive 24 hours...how many beers we talkin? Valley bar in Darby MT is about 55 miles from me, and the sign on the front says "Valley Bar, Logger Country". Not too many loggers around here anymore though, probably full of yuppies! Did you ever eat at the Samoa Cookhouse in Eureka? I loved that place! For those that have not been there, it is has awesome lumber camp style dining and grub, with a logging museum attached...definitely a must-see if you are going through Eureka California(that is, if it is still open?).
The cook house is still open. Thats more then i ca say for most of our mills around here. I hear the mill in orick is going down for good soon as the finish milling there invetory.
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