A glimpse of Barneey’s in the 1970s. Today a gas station sits there — also named Barney’s, I think because they realized the local still called the spot Barney’s.
On Facebook, everyone started talking when these pictures were posted.
Launa Parker: “My mom was a waitress and cook and bartender there when I was about 9. I remember we ate alot of hamburgers for dinner since my dad doesn’t cook. I also remember playing in the bar (in the back of the restaraunt) while my mom worked. Seems like a life time ago but it was only some forty years ago.”
Barbara Kaye: I used to waitress. What a hoot! [ca. 1970]
Karon Lael: I did too! I learned to wash windows with newspaper . . . was fun tho.
Juanita Hagen: My cousin, Doreen Dawson, ran Barney’s, I think back in the sixties. Not sure of the year.
David Beane: The Summer my family lived at the motel, my brother and I would go there and play shuffle board.
Karen Laura Lane Phelan: I worked at B arney’s back in the mid-60’s both when Betty Berg ran it and again when Janet Crisman ran it. Good times. Very little money but good times
Jeff McKeller: I played Barneey’s in ’70 I think with Art “Slim” Beuliew, Johnny Jones and John Rash. “Slim Martin And The Saddleites.”
Mike Shelley: In the late ’60’s, Sadie would let me go back and pick out my own steak. Bee may remember that.
Bee Rick Reynolds: Yes, Mike, she has a few favorites customers who got to do that..and I mean a few like 3 maybe…Trooper Carl and another person where her favs besides you. She and I talked about you and others when I moved in 90 to care for her. She would tell me some good tales about Eatonville and things she heard.
Scott Feldtman: Judy Olden and I share the same birthday. I remember seeing the Olden family at Barney’s on a few birthday dinner nights. Dale Jr. And I used to poke our heads into the cocktail lounge to see what was going on…. Can’t report some of the stuff we saw……
Photos courtesy of Bee Rick Reynolds.
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