Restaurants on the Frontier
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- Restaurants in the Old West
Bodie photo by Mike McBey Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) www.flickr.com/photos/1586521...
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Checkered tablecloth background by Gaby Stein from Pixabay
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Thanks so much to Jim McCallum for reading some 1860s poetry.
“Old Timey” and “Run Amok” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We've been fortunate enough to stay and eat in the Irma Hotel in Cody WY. The dining room and Bar have not changed much in 110 years. I recommend the prime rib.
Nice!! I'll go one day. Thank you!
Been there, done that, it was excellent!
If I ever have to go to Wyoming I'll have to go!
Neither have the towels and table cloths.
The only problem is that in 110 years, the prices are 100 times higher----
I'm always interested to find old menus. It's always interesting to see what people were eating "back in the day" as well as prices for different items. What sometimes is considered an expensive special item now may have been a commonplace thing back then. Venison is one thing that jumps to mind at the moment. Sort of special now, common back then. Oh well great video of course. Take it easy. *:-)*
Much appreciated. Yes, I also wonder what the portion sizes were.
Yes. Grocery store ads (even from just a few decades back) are entertaining too.
The pricing too - 3 course meal for $0.75. Lobster being "poor mans" food on the East Coast. Oysters/mussels being cheap - how things have changed.
One old menu had turtle soup on it sadly you don't see that to much anymore
I could’ve watched 10 more minutes on this subject. Great video Santee, learning about the Wild West from you has brought me knowledge about stuff I didn’t even know I wanted to know about. I’m so glad I found the Arizona Ghost Riders channel.
Aaron, that means so much to me. Much appreciated!
Made me hungry, gonna go make my breakfast, hash, bacon & eggs, (you gave me the idea, thanks). Have a great weekend. 👍🏼🤠
Yeeehaww! You too.
I just got back from the grocery store , bought chorizo and tortillas , and beer .
4:00 now that’s an awesome looking painting whoever made that and is possibly reading this it’s awesome and you made Santee look cooler than Clint Eastwood in his cowboy movies 😀
Thank you, but I think Clint is way cooler. I may be goofier, though!
Arizona Ghostriders yeah but he did have a T-Rex!
That was me. Thanks so much for the compliment! I agree. Santee is way cooler than Clint AND he has a Rex!
Mister Martinez it’s awesome!
Very interesting Santee! Thanks for the video. I always look forward to my Saturdays and your vids just make them that much better. And I always leave a like to show you my support. Have a good weekend everybody!
You're welcome! Much appreciated.
As always, interesting and now I’m going to eat my breakfast.
Thank you!
The only bad thing about your videos is that they are too short!
Love your work.
Thank you. With a full time job, it's about all I can do to get out some of these at this length. Much appreciated.
Santee, there was a chain of railroad restaurants at the time, the Harvey Houses, that employed young, single women and provided good food in fairly elegant surroundings.
The young ladies (called "Harvey girls") were of good character and often met their future husbands among the repeat customers of the railroads. These restaurants began in Kansas in 1876 and lasted until 1968, nearly a hundred years later.
There is, in fact, an operational Harvey House restaurant in the Grand Canyon Lodge of the Grand Canyon National Park in your home state. If you're ever in the area, you might want to check it out. :)
I know about these, and think they deserve their own episode in the future. Thanks!
The Harvey Houses had a real advantage in that they were located at railroad depots, and could get staples and fresh foods right off a train, so the food was very good for the time.
Another most enjoyable video. The beans and bread that Trinity was eating looked great. I would love to know more about the Russ House in Tombstone.
I've eaten there a few times when it was "Nellie Cashman's". The food was great, and they say it's haunted. Now it is a Mexican restaurant, I believe. Man, it was one of the best pancakes I ever ate. I remember I was eating it so fast, some fell on my 1880's repro tie and left a butter stain. Damn.
Mark Twain in Roughing It had a great quote about the food served to passengers at Stagecoach stops.
In addition to cramped space, there were accidents and an occasional robbery or attack by Indians. And then there was the food, when it was available. According to Mark Twain, a meal consisted of “last week’s bread…condemned army bacon…a beverage which pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler.” And to rub salt in the wound, meals were not included in the $200 a traveler paid for passage.
Yes, "That the military would not even feed their own soldiers." I love it. Thanks, Chuck.
Mark sure had a way with words!
Damn stove heap gone .
$200? Why you could buy a fine two storey house for that with wood shed. Must have been traveling with the Sultan of Araby, I reckon.
The thumbs down is a person who despises restaurant food and eats only Taquitos.
Our a Lebtard did I say that 🤢🤮
frozen ones
@@DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW You did!
@@collinsfriend1 Yes. The bulk package.
You mean that rapscallion would eat my dog!?!?
Great episode Santee. Happy Friday!!👍👍👍
We do a private dinner for Diggins in Columbia CA. Using historical utensils and recipes it is a ton of work for 20 or so patrons plus the staff. It really puts modern restaurants in perspective.
I'd love to go sometime.
Have you watched any videos by Jas. Townsend ? Theyre mostly about American cookery from Colonial times to the Mid 18th Century .
Yes actually cooked some of those recipes.
YUUUUUMMMMMMMM!!! Thanks Santee! Stay away from the up Chuck Wagon! All The Plum Good Best! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
You got that right!
I always enjoy your videos. I just wish that they were 10 or 15 minutes longer. They are just that good. I would like to see one on odd ball firearms in the old west.
Thank you so much!
Interesting slice of western history! I remember watching the movie, "The Harvey Girls" with Judy Garland playing a girl from the East who went West to work at one of the famous Fred Harvey Houses in Sandrock, Arizona. Harvey Houses were one of the first chain restaurants in America. Also in the movie, Murder She Wrote's Angela Lansbury played Judy's saloon girl rival Em! I always thought it was interesting how a big juicy T-bone steak was common with fried eggs for breakfast back in those good old days! Definitely not like today's fast food! Thanks for posting! Happy trails!
You're welcome! I appreciate ya!
You answered my question about Havey Houses . Thanks , Pardner .
@@victorwaddell6530 You're welcome, Pardner!
great vid, thanks so much Cheese !! …. and every time someone plays a clip of Terrence Hill eating beans, I have to go watch the entire movie.... every single time :-) I guess the lawn will have to wait until tomorrow !
HAHAHA! It's a fun movie. He's such a likable character.
Them Trinity Brothers could put away some chow .
Rock Springs Cafe , the Chicken and Dumplings are what they served way back in the day. And the pies are OUT OF THIS WORID!!!
Mmmm!
Like as always John not to worry we all get busy would of love to eaten in a old western restaurant another like from us love the skeleton lol and oysters love them take care John and thanks for the visit
Sorry im late my friend. Great info, makes me want a calzone from Big Nose Kates in Tombstone lol
That paining of you by chris is amazing!!
Good one Santee! Food business family here. Tough way to make a living.
Many stories of so called restaurants reusing food customers left on plate.
I've always thought winter would have been the best time to eat in an old restaurant. Meat easily kept cold. Mexican people most likely had the inside track on safe food in hot climates. Dried everything was de rigueur.
Thank You!
On a trip out west, I enjoyed a hearty meal at the St. James Hotel in Cimeron, NM. Great food and biscuits with gravy. Enjoyed the history of the establishment all the way down to the bullet holes in the ceiling.
So cool. Gotta get there myself! Thanks for sharing.
love the Deadwood easter egg clips; just watched the series for the first time beginning of lockdown, have rewatched it prob 6 or 7 times since.
Cool!
Another great episode.
Thank you!
The Ingalls even tried their hand at running a hotel restaurant. Good group of episodes!
Ice Cream Parlors in the Old West. I'm amazed Wyatt Earp didn't put on a gut because he loved the Ice Cream Parlor in Tombstone and went there often.
He probably had the metabolism of a squirrel.
YUM, YUM , YUMMY ! Another AWESOME video :-)
Thank you!
Heh, a McDonald's at Bodie. I went to the Calico House Restaurant early this year. Must've been in the middle of the food shipment because nearly everything was sold out. I've ate at a good number of old restaurants along California State Route 49. Most of them are pretty good, some of them with food you wouldn't expect in that area. Almost if they kept the menus up to a extent. Especially the French influence. One of the more memorable dinners I've had was at the Idaho Hotel in Silver City Idaho back in the late 90s.
Wow! I went to Silver City as a kid. I wanna go back. You've been some fun places.
Seems like beef bear and beaver aught to be on the menu year round up there.
@@lewiscleveland4661 Pretty much!
Ate at the Idaho Hotel in Silver City Idaho back in 2017 when I used to live fairly nearby.
They didn't make too much of an effort to be authentic with the food if I remember right, but the building is part of the original ghost town and I loved eating there!
I was there as a kid. Amazing.
One of the pioneers in Arizona was Pete Kitchens. He raised pigs which was pretty smart since pork was a rarity. The local Apaches didn't eat pork, but passing braves used his pigs for bow and arrow practice. So the pigs were called Pete Kitchens pin cushions.
Yeah, his place is still down there. Gotta check it out one day.
i loved that little rascals clip, it's weird that i just watched that very episode last week
I't a favorite of mine!
I actually tried some recipes from one of those old Time-Life books 'The Old West' one of which was vinegar pie-really just custard I believe with some apple vinegar added. It turned out surprisingly tasty with a nice fruity zing from the vinegar. My wife complimented me by stating I was officially a nerd for doing it.
No, not a nerd. You're a history cook! Good job. Thanks for telling me how it tasted. Might try it myself.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Would you like the recipe or is it a safe assumption that you have access to those 'The Old West' books? The recipes were in 'The Cowboys' book with another dish gloriously titled 'Sonuvab*tch Stew'.
One of my favourite indoor sequences in any western is the long restaurant scene in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, I don’t know why but something about seeing the running of a busy restaurant in the west and how similar it is to these days is so interesting as a setting
It was also neat that they made it a small establishment, I thought.
There was a hilarious episode of Little House on the Prairie, in which an industrious entrepreneur opened a restaurant in Walnut Grove offering only three menu items... the first fast food restaurant. At the very end of the episode, an old southern colonel with white hair and a goatee rode into town with the intention of opening a restaurant that served only one item: southern fried chicken!
I love these videos!! Thx Santee!!
Hey Santee, great video! I was going to mention that movie “The Man Who shot Liberty Valence” but you beet me to it. I was going to remark on the size of the steaks they were served. They were the size of a whole family steak 🥩! Loved that movie, but would’ve loved that steak more!! Haha
Yeah, and Andy Devine ate TWO of them!!!
HAHA that's right!
Wow awesome shared, No shirt no shoes no service,nice restaurant cool got MacDonald too🙋🏻♀️
Another excellent and informative video. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Good video, when ever I travel, eating in a small local greasy spoon restaurant is a must. Cheers & dont forget the alka seltzer!
LOL! Thanks.
Your "dressing the part" series was very helpful in shaping my gunslinger costume. I'm glad to see love and appreciation for American History is still alive.
Thank you. We will do more dressing the part in the future. When Santee drops about 10 pounds!
I'm more excited to watch your videos than I was to watch Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid. I need to find a 3'x5' "No step on snek" flag! Lol. Great job Santee!
Thank you! Yeah, those stickers are out there. Used to have one on my computer.
Love it‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Hungry yet?
I ate breakfast at the Gadsen Hotel awhile back and the Huevos Rancheros were fabulous.
Really? I'd like to try them there.
Great Show !
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Right on Chris Martinez, great painting of Santee and Rex!
I hope he reads that.
Another great video! This is the type of educational video sprinkled with comedy that I used to watch as a kid on PBS. Learning something new everyday.
Great!
That was a great video. Closest I came was a truckstop called the road kill cafe. The poodle with noodles was really good.
That sounds delightful. Thanks.
How did I Miss this One and it's great To see spankie of the little rascals🤩
Thank you!
Mighty fine Santee. Thanks
You're welcome!
Such an awesome and informative video. LOVE IT. This is one area we never learned in school. Keep up the great work my friend.
Thank you AlphaTraveler!
As always another great video
I appreciate that
Always, have been interested in foods from that period of history. Not just what they carried, but where they are and whatever was available. Thanks again for your interesting videos.
You're welcome!
The Buckhorn Exchange in Denver is a fun place to go to. Teddy Roosevelt loved to eat there when he was in the area. It was called the Rio Grande Exchange in 1893 because of it's close proximity to the rail station. Wild Exotic meats are their specialty.
Yeah, so I hear! Would love to try bear and moose.
@@ArizonaGhostriders May I suggest Moose and Squirrel!
Great video as always. Let's get some grub. Seriously I love the passion in your videos and I enjoy videos about food. People had to eat everywhere For a hotel,modest or grand, having a sit down restaurant was a help to business.
Thank you!
Great history lesson as always. But now I'm hungry anyone up for some beans and biscuits? Yummy.
Thank you!
Great video!!
Thank you!
Another delicious episode. Great job Santee. "The More Smoke Gang " 🤠
Thanks folks!
Silverton Colorado !
I passed through there late one night.
Finally found a motel room. $10 for the three of us !
We were buried in hippies.
Sounds like a scene from the 70s
I like this channel, and I like what I learn here. Plus the channel actually notices you! I’m watching this and thinking about Red Dead Redemption 2 when you can eat in some of the taverns/hotels lol
Thank you!
Arizona Ghostriders You’re welcome!
Just about the most memorable menus I have seen was listed as follows,
Breakfast $ 3.50
Lunch.
lol
Now I’m hungry. Thanks for another great episode.
Reminds me I gotta stop hitting up all the chop houses and store up on some canned beans. Especially if I want that new model 3 for the CAS competitions...
LOL!
So much great content packed into this video, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of my favorite movies. Not going to try the brains in batter.
Thank you!I don't blame you on the brains. I ain't eating liver and bacon either.
How can you not like any of this channels content
There are trolls who just thumbs down to be mean. The joke is on them, because any view helps!
You're making me hungry....for more great Santee Videos!!!
LOL! That's a good one, RH.
Love waking up to a new video from you Santee. Keep it up?
Thank you!
Loved this video
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Great video as always! Love the Trinity clips-they sure could eat 😂
Thank you!
Eat like starving dogs , take a deep breath , then start again .
Huh, this is the exact day I took and passed my CCW! Also my 59th birthday! It was a good day! I like the restaurant bit Santee! Keep it coming!
Happy birthday!
Love that clip from Liberty Vallance.
If you look at all the publicity clips Marvin has two or three different quirts.
One looks more like a whip and reached to his ankles.
Hey a good idea. Do a video on quirts and whips.😉
That is a good idea. Thanks!
I never thought about restaurants, always think about saloons, Very interesting my friend.
Great video as always. A long time ago, I visited Calico with my family and I briefly remember the saloon. My dad encouraged me to get a sarsaparilla because I didn't know what it was at the time.
Well, two amazing things happened that day.. You tried Sarsaparilla, and a nugget of Old West curiosity was placed in you. Now here you are...helping us keep the Old West alive!
Santee, could you do one on the logistics of famous train and stagecoach robberies?
Thanks to you I learn a lot of the real Wild West. And I like the humor in the movies!
Greetings from Schagen (The Netherlands)
Bedankt! I hope that is right....I'm trying to thank you.
Hey Santee, "Bedankt" is the right word! :)
New sub here! Just found your channel in my recommendations. I am a history buff, I live in the great state of AZ and I am fascinated by the old southwest. This is awesome!
Thank you!
Mmmm that food looks like good dysentery! Great video as always though!
Nothing like that or a side order of Botulism
How did life in the 19th Century differ in Canada as opposed to the U.S.? (Or Alaska)
I think it was very similar. However, there was foreign rule in Canada...so the laws may have been pretty different.
@@ArizonaGhostriders That's one reason I was curious. That and how they dealt with the weather and the massive amounts of snow. I've seen some of Frontier on Netflix, so I know it wasn't to different. I wonder how much influence France had on the common settler.
Edit: I used to live in Alaska as a child and I just miss it up there to be honest. I didn't have a huge opportunity to go around and learn about this stuff, and it wasnt that big of an interest back then. Oh Well.
I love the work you do by the way, I'm always looking forward to the next upload.
I visited the Canadian Badlands in Alberta several years ago with a tour group. While there we had lunch at The Last Chance Saloon. They serve more modern fair, but the ambiance was amazing.
Awesome! That's what it is about. If you had to eat creamed calf brains on top of having the ambience....then it may have been a different story!
Howdy Santee
As always; a real treat watching and "learning" ????? Keep 'em coming. I missed T-Rex stompin' through the shot! What's up with that? Did he eat at one of those restaurants and DIE????? :~)))))
God bless:
Stoney
Thanks. I figured the great illustration at the end was his cameo this week.
The Pekin Noodle Parlor In Montana One Of The Oldest Chinese Restaurants In The Country
Chop Suey Was Also Very Popular In Those Days
It was. I'm going to do a video on Chinese food at some point.
That last menu looked like GREAT food! 😋
I bet it tasted good. Not the menu...the food.
Very cool!
Thank you!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I’m almost through all of your videos! Time to step up production! Lol
Greasewood Flats in north Scottsdale was an old stagecoach stop. They had a great burger, chili and cold beer
So I hear. Been wanting to go. Is it different from Tortilla Flats?
It's long gone so are all the other places that were there up there! All the Big Shots are buying everything up and building houses! We are losing our Arizona and it's History and turning into LA so sad!!!
... _and The steak was so tough it jumped off the serving plate and buffaloed us all._
HA!
😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣
I remember going to a restaurant that was built since 1887 and still active till this day in southern Texas they had alot of meals that were mostly deer meat, bison meat and so much more the food was great and everything but it can take a huge chunk out of my wallet because of how the service was made. I liked it but it's better to have a wife to cook for you.
Yeah, I hear ya. There's a place in CO that does that. Buckhorn Exchange, I believe it's called.
Santee and Rex - Los Diablos Mortal - after Santee's wife sees the mess they've made around the house! Actually nice poster painting. Hint, Hint - I'd buy one to hang in my classroom. I've got a board with pictures of Clayton Moore, Geronimo, Terrance Hill, Woody Strode, a Marine recruiting post featuring a female Marine Sgt. friend of mine and good ole Batjac J.W. with a Model 29. Los Diablos Mortal would look good next to it.
Nah, too busy doing school work to worry about the house. ;)
@@ritashuff7136 Ain't it the truth!
Santee, do a video on your gun/holster collection!
OK! I can do that.
Arizona Ghostriders VERY awesome! Looking forward to it!
Look at those hungry folks waiting to put on the feedbag under the very liked AGR logo at 45. Deliciously done !!!!
Awww, thanks! You encourage me to put one in every video, whereas before it was just when I remembered to do it. Appreciate ya!
The Chinese restaurants had an advantage in that much of the food was made using boiling water, which tended to get rid of pathogens that other places didn't.
Also why the Chinese working on the railroads weren't sick as often as other ethnic groups working the same railroads; the Chinese boiled the local water for tea, while everyone else just drank the water as it was.
Excellent point.
Dang it Santee! Ya gone off and made this big ol boy hungry. Now, I'm looking for something to snack on. ;) Another great video though. :D
Ha! Thank you!
Another great episode Santee. I have in fact eating in a restaurant that was in historical old west building. I forgot the name of it but I know it was in Columbia, California. Just north of Jamestown, California.
Was it this? thecolumbiahouserestaurant.com/
Thanks, BTW!
@@ArizonaGhostriders well I think it was actually right next door but yes they were selling food out there and I did buy some food from there. The place I went to was like a bar but not really at the same time. That was for the back to 1885 event that I went to. Maybe I'll actually get a chance to eat in there again if they actually do it.
@@FutureRailProductions Get photos!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Deal!
Look up the old tune, "All Go Hungry Hash House" in reference to the boarding house food. For some traditional music look up Norman Blake and Rich O'Brien, "Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene."
Thanks!
apparently i already watched this video, but i dont remember watching it so here i go again
Great video
Thank you!
I’ve been waiting on this one
Much appreciated.
1:34 P E R F E C T video conversion....good for your computer geek..... best i've seen eve !!!! oldguypctech
Thanks. I've done that in a few videos. Love the effect. Just needs the same angle shot from two different eras....which is hard to find at times.
@@ArizonaGhostriders hey Santee, I’m curious as to why the original picture at 1:30 doesn’t have a mountain behind it but the newer picture does. Was it because of the type of cameras back then? Thanks!
Nothing like a hare on a stick, great stuff Santee
Thank you!
Interesting video.
Thank you!
I wish I could go to an old period correct town. I heard there are a few in the gold countries like yukon still up and running. Tombstone would be cool too...
You find them....they are around. Ghost Towns like Bodie are damn cool, also.