{"id":323,"date":"2009-11-15T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgogel.com\/backroads\/?p=323"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:25:23","slug":"the-continental-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"The Continental Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Didn’t think I would have been allowed in wearing shorts, tennis shoes and hood. After all this bar was established in 1925 and has a velvet rope in front. Yeah, Last Chance Saloon is 43 years older, Coldspring Tavern is 60 years older and the Washoe House has it beat by 66 years – but they are wood buildings built out in the country, this is the Continental Room – it’s got a red velvet rope and carpet entrance.<\/p>\n

What a place…hard to figure out. The interior is old school with a bit of David Lynch \u2014 why do you laugh at that? \u2014 look at the photos below and tell me Twin Peaks doesn’t cross your mind. I would not have been surprised if the little man wobbled out and hopped up on the bar stool next to me. The music covers a wide range from hip hop, R&B to alternative, even some Frank. Live music, DJ and on Wednesdays an Elvis impersonator (now that makes perfect sense when you look around at the decor – lots of velvet, red velvet).<\/p>\n

At any rate, have to say I am pleasantly surprised. Wasn’t what I expected, thought there would be a Mafia type bouncer telling me that a jacket would be required, pants too…but this place is just an old school staple. My apologies to my buddy Chris as I thought we’d be kicked out faster than it took to get in. On his next visit, we definitely will head inside, right after we leave Hero’s Bar and Grill.<\/p>\n

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Didn’t think I would have been allowed in wearing shorts, tennis shoes and hood. After all this bar was established in 1925 and has a velvet rope in front. Yeah, Last Chance Saloon is 43 years older, Coldspring Tavern is 60 years older and the Washoe House has it beat by 66 years – but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fullerton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehighways.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}