Who is playing at pozo saloon

The Chumash and Salinan purportedly met to trade in nearby Santa Margarita. He also took parts of Atascadero and Paso Robles for himself. At its founding in , Pozo was called El Rancho San Jose, but when applying for a Post Office in , they found the name already taken, so a "well known" resident named George Washington Lingo, who was also the postman, came up with "Pozo"—Spanish for "well" since Pozo resembles a hole-like valley surrounded by hills.

In , the Post Office was officially named. Pozo Saloon has gone through a number of different owners over the years, some more notable than others. Its fledgling years were classic Wild West.

In the mids, a small gold rush at nearby La Panza brought people to the area, marking the town's heyday. Businesses such as a blacksmith, barber, hotel, general store, gristmill, and a dance hall—which was Pozo Saloon's original operating model—sprang up. There was also a school, and one record claimed that in , 97 school children were among the area's population of Around that time the local gold rush ended and the town shrank, but travelers going north, south, and east still had to travel through Pozo.

After highways 58 and 46 made the route unnecessary, Pozo truly began to wither. Some claim Prohibition finally did the saloon in, but according to Roe, driven by the local temperance movement, SLO County had "gone dry" before and the 18th Amendment made alcohol illegal.

She said the new travel routes bypassing Pozo doomed the town and saloon. After being shuttered for more than 40 years, Pozo Saloon reopened in Merrick bought a stake in the building. He was best known for presiding over both the James Dean crash and the infamous Shandon murders. After eight years as sheriff, he was elected a SLO County supervisor for another four years. Merrick finally bought out principal owner Zip Arebalo in , reopening the following year.

Merrick was the owner who bought the classic foot bar in the saloon, which had reportedly traveled around Cape Horn in in a sailing ship and was installed in SLO's Cosmopolitan Hotel where the Ross store is now.

Merrick apparently found the bar in storage in the Santa Maria area and bought it. He added another bar to the dance hall part of the building. At this time, Pozo Saloon was a rustic, out of the way place known for great food and cheap beer.

It's unclear whether Merrick retained ownership throughout or had business partners. In , someone identified as "former owner Flavia Ballou" told the then- Telegram-Tribune , "The first few months we were open, we threw out more people than we served. So many fights. In , Rhonda Beanway and her husband Brian bought the place.

They're also the ones who had to fight the county to allow these huge concerts, digging up historical records that proved the saloon had been a gathering place with live music since its earliest days. For instance, records show Professor Pico's String Orchestra played to a large crowd in The county cracked down when these shows drew the ire of neighbors. Cars lined the narrow road for miles in both directions. Massive speakers rattled nearby windows.

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