Colleen Stogsdill
Colleen Stogsdill
came doors history hours keeps kid love open people stories
It just keeps it's doors open. It used to be open 24 hours a day. I love some of the stories about when people came 50 years ago, or they came when they were a kid and now they are in their 60s. There is a lot of history here.
brought customers farms meat restaurant war
During the war (World War II) when meat was rationed, customers brought meat to the restaurant to keep it going. This was meat from their farms and out of their own homes.
attraction catering culinary excited exercise huge kitchen smaller tried worked
That was a huge attraction for my husband. We've tried to do some catering out at our other place, but the kitchen is a lot smaller and it hasn't worked very well. (Ken) is excited to use exercise his culinary muscle.
love oysters prime saturday seems
Friday's we do prime rib (dinner) and Saturday we do grilled razor clams and oysters (dinner). Everyone seems to love those. They've been a big hit.
asked came expand good lives pass thinking
They came to us -- we weren't even thinking about it. Someone who lives here asked if we'd like to expand it was too good to pass up.
fell good location love married walked
When we first walked in there to eat, we fell in love with it. We've been married for 20 years and we'd always wanted to own a restaurant. It had a good location and we live in Canby so that made it really nice.
breakfast coming eat next opened sleep stop trucks
The trucks back then didn't have sleepers on them and they would stop here, eat dinner, sleep in one of the cabins and then eat breakfast the next morning. When I-5 opened the truckers weren't coming by as much.