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Photographer: Michael Kindig
Taken: November 9, 2010
Caption: The Bar
Additional Description: This room was actually a working room on the ranch, serving both as a butchering room and meat aging area. The hooks from which the beef hung are still in evidence.

The bar was installed in the 1940's when the ranch house was being used as an officer's club.

The retaining wall seen through the outside door was constructed by Don Juan Forester in the 1860's and has many times protected the ranch hose from the rampaging flood waters of the Santa Margarita River. The patio below was used as a clothes drying area and also was the home of several pet peacocks.
Submitted: January 8, 2012, by Michael Kindig of Elk Grove, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p188455
File Size: 2.874 Megabytes

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