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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.

...sounds like a real nice place to hang your hat!:cheers:
 
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.
 
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.

Dang! I wish I would have been more of a drinkin man back then:givebeer: 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.
 
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.

Friendly brawls:clap: aww the good ol days!:)
 
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.
 
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.

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!:clap: 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?).
 
Cody, many beers.

I have a hardhat hanging on the wall at the Samoa Cookhouse, it's an orange PALCO hat. Last time I was there, it was in the main dining room, in back on the right, if you look closely at it, you will see where I scratched a sentimental comment above the PALCO logo. I have many names, the one used on that hardhat has the name of Rollins on it, my Nom de Guerre at the time.
 
Dang! I wish I would have been more of a drinkin man back then:givebeer: 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.

It was 02 and 03 thereabouts that I lived there- 6 miles inland, between Mendo and Fort Bragg. Made my wife get her picture at the sign there in Darby, MT for personal reasons. We were en route moving from CA to MN (to visit) to TN (to live), at the time somwhere between White Sulfur Springs (for a soak) and Cut Bank, where I wanted to show her real big sky country.
 
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this thread makes me think of places that my father and grandfather went to.

Grandpa was from Carmel valley and Dad was from Monterey(I think, could be Soledad)

Why did I have to be the one born in the east..

:censored::chainsaw:
 
Invitation

Just wanted to let you boys know that if you are ever around my neck of the woods and we will go have a beer at the hayloft in Lolo.
 
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!:clap: 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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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.

Is Columbia still kickin around there? I was last there in 02, and it was looking grim then.
 

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