inside train tunnel
This weekend my friends took me mushroom hunting in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California. We found no edible mushrooms. But we went to an old train tunnel in the mountain side. They showed me where the old Chateau Liberté once was. It is redwood forest now.
The Chateau Liberté was a legendary rock & roll bar in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The bar was famous place to go and was patronized by the local Mountain Folk, Cowboys and equestrians, Professional people such as Airline Pilots, Doctors, Lawyers, Heavy Construction Equipment Operators, Artists, Scientists, Musicians, Poets, Families, "hippies" and other eclectic groups. The place became a motorcycle gang hang out for the Hell's Angels in the mid-1970s. It had been restored to replicate the structure circa 1920. The swimming pool was left in place, and could have been viewed as folks sat at the log-hewn bar. The bar and surrounding cottages were the last of a small train town that had served the local farming community in 1920s etc. It is gone now and a redwood forest grows were it once stood.
Bands that played there included Doobie Brothers, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Elvin Bishop, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Hot Tuna, Deep Purple, Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks, members of Moby Grape, and other legendary rock groups.
https://chateauliberte.com/
