Lockwood Valley. (San Francisco, Cobb, Maricopa: motel, houses, construction)

[Fontucky]

All I know is: Sagebrush Annie's is now on my list of must visits. Even if I don't drink wine.

[Curmudgeon]

You are such an arrogant boor who, I rather suspect, sits in his mother's basement making up new names and jumping from one research site to another so he can appear all knowing and superior.

Thank you buit I don't need your help. My father was raised in Paris and the, then, French West Indies -- here's a hint for you, he was half French.

Now run along little man and try to find someone you can impress because you just flopped!

Here's another hint for you to chew on. My reference was more to the name/language but doubtless that was too subtle for you in your sick quest to follow me around and try to lord over me. I'm beginning to wonder about your mental stability and orientation.

[.highnlite]

The trick is to have enough appetite for lunch at Scheidecks and supper at Sagebrush Annies... Bicycling between the two should do it.

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"Almighty," she announces in disbelief, the door swinging shut behind her. "I been hearing about this place for 24 years." She is, perhaps, 30.

Then she barks:

"Hey, is this place fit for kids?"

Chuck Graden, the bartender, moves forward, exposing the sign mounted near the register:

We don't serve women. You have to bring your own

"Sure," he says softly, smiling.

In minutes she's back, with the two children she had left outside.

Few people know what to make of Scheideck's Lodge. That's for those who actually do make it in.

The place is so remote: 37 miles due north of Ojai, up the tortuous California 33 beyond Matilija Canyon's cutoff and over much of the 6,500-foot Pine Mountain before descending to 4,000 feet. Then two right turns take the car onto dirt and, in two crossings, through the winding Cuyama River before climbing again, this time over a mesa into a mile-long gash in the Earth called Ozena Valley. A long way for a beer.

But people find it. Some, from seeing a small, ridiculous sign on the paved Lockwood Valley Road: "Scheideck's Lodge. Cocktails and dining. Turn here, go in 1.5 miles." But most simply hear about it from the people who call Scheideck's home, the people who live here in cabins only steps from the bar.

The intrepid woman is Darlene Pike, from Frazier Park, about 30 miles away. She takes a long draw on a beer and puts her bottle down atop one of the dozens of cattle brands carved into the thick wood bar, this one the shape of an ax head, and signed:

Hachet brand, 1939

"This place is great," she says. "Look at it. Nothing like it. And the creek right here is beautiful. We just hiked up it. I'd of gotten here sooner but I was raising my kids."

*

Scheideck's Lodge, while a curiosity to the day-tripper and oasis for hikers at nearby Reyes Creek Campground, performs many functions beyond pulling tap beer and keeping a jukebox current with Hank Williams Jr. and Bonnie Raitt. The bar is a window into a self-contained mountain colony, a tavern-as-nexus where information is traded in a phoneless society.

[.highnlite]

You are such an arrogant boor who, I rather suspect

C'mon sport, who comes here and tells us how wonderful Missouri is, how much better than California, and what is military service consisted of, from day 1, of course the legislative stuff, ad infinitum, as if it gives a special insight into the pulse of this state, our state, not your state.
And...... who gets an astounding amount of facts, just plain wrong.

Now, lest you think I am simply critical. I have a suggestion, leave your computer, walk outside, enjoy your state. That is what I would do if I went to some far off place and said it was better than the place I left.

But, I don't think you will, I think you miss the heck out of this state, and cannot stay away, even if only virtually, so we will continue to enjoy your comments, and comment on your comments, cheap entertainment.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by .highnlite

C'mon sport, who comes here and tells us how wonderful Missouri is, how much better than California, and what is military service consisted of, from day 1, of course the legislative stuff, ad infinitum, as if it gives a special insight into the pulse of this state, our state, not your state.
And...... who gets an astounding amount of facts, just plain wrong.

Now, lest you think I am simply critical. I have a suggestion, leave your computer, walk outside, enjoy your state. That is what I would do if I went to some far off place and said it was better than the place I left.

But, I don't think you will, I think you miss the heck out of this state, and cannot stay away, even if only virtually, so we will continue to enjoy your comments, and comment on your comments, cheap entertainment.

Yeah, kinda figured you were into cheap thrills. "Wrong" to you is anything not found in your philosophy. Pity! You are so predictable.

For the record, Missouri isn't "better" just different. Yet another reasonable concept you can't grasp.

You never answered the question. Who's/What's your next incarnation going to be?

I'll await your answer for a bit, a very short bit, since spending/wasting anymore time on you would be futile.

[.highnlite]

Camping south of Lockwood Valley, with your trusty pack animal


Everytime you say something like this;

Who's/What's your next incarnation going to be?

You show me that you haven't the vaguest idea what is going on, yet, you continue to comment, and that is sad. The lovely pleasant Ozarks, the Tahoe/Sierra for hillbilly's and wanabe hillbilly's, except with little golf carts and little Japanese cars.

[user_id]

Originally Posted by californio sur

I didn't suggest you were a Republican! Where did that come from?

Yes you did, but you edited the comment after I responded, the original text was:

"No, on the contrary, this is just another attempt to by those who despise California [mainly Republicans like yourself] to indirectly express their sense of alienation"

Why play silly games?

[user_id]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Awww, come on Fonty. Cut him some slack. They serve filet mignon. How much more French can you get. And they have wine, fresh out of the box no doubt! Talk about vin ordinaire!

I thought it was a joke, sorta hard to confuse that for French food.

[Fontucky]

Another Footballfreak with the creative editing after the fact?

[californio sur]

Originally Posted by user_id

Yes you did, but you edited the comment after I responded, the original text was:

"No, on the contrary, this is just another attempt to by those who despise California [mainly Republicans like yourself] to indirectly express their sense of alienation"

Why play silly games?

Have no idea what you are referring to and frankly don't care since this thread is on Lockwood Valley and not your boring existence in California. When did you say you were fleeing to the Bronx, your ideal city?