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Post by hikerchick395 on Jan 27, 2020 8:57:53 GMT -8
Not quite the done deal, but it looks like commercial flights will be coming to the Bishop airport. Once a day from LAX via United Express. In the winter, the schedule will include flights from Denver and San Francisco.
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Post by johntpenca on Jan 27, 2020 9:46:36 GMT -8
That makes me kinda sad. Guess it was inevitable, but still, it will further change the character of Bishop. I miss the Bishop I knew in the 80s and 90s.
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Post by bluefish on Jan 27, 2020 14:02:57 GMT -8
That makes me kinda sad. Guess it was inevitable, but still, it will further change the character of Bishop. I miss the Bishop I knew in the 80s and 90s. 5 years ago, we almost bought a house in Big Pine. Memories of Bishop from the late 70's and early 80's were stuck in my head. It's gotten even more tourist driven, if that's even possible . I never would have left, had it not been for a brother who was suffering from a severe and fatal case of MS. I went back to the east coast, had friends come to visit and implore me to return, but life happened and I never went back, except for a goodly number of visits. One gain I would imagine is the fights between Paiutes and redneck Owens Valley cowboys have diminished. The eyesore and moral degradation of Janey's Cottontail Ranch and the Montgomery Pass Casino aren't drawing people over the border into hell anymore, either. Some good, some bad. I still like driving over from Vegas with a rental. I know where to look for wild horses and usually get to see burros, too. Big thrill for New England flatlanders. Eat some cheese bread for me, who ever passes through, I lived on the getting old sale rack of that stuff, some weeks. |
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Post by johntpenca on Jan 28, 2020 7:43:50 GMT -8
Eat some cheese bread for me Yeah, stopping at Schatt's for jalapeno cheese bread and Mahogany Smoked Meats for jerky were a part of every visit to the east side. Schatt's is now a freaking zoo and Mahogany got bought out and pretty much sucks now. |
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Post by bluefish on Jan 28, 2020 8:02:14 GMT -8
When we've got supplies in Bishop, I've always told my wife about Schatt's. The lines have been uniformly out the door. Luckily, the only jerky I remember is from a friends ranch. It was brined, peppered and hung out on a clothesline from his back porch, high enough so those mean Queensland heelers couldn't get it. Maybe the worst job I've ever done- dragging very bloated dead cows with a jeep into a pit in 100° heat. They ate Water Hemlock growing along the Owens.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jan 28, 2020 9:35:49 GMT -8
Bishop hasn't changed much, as far as population. Yes, it is a SO tourist driven economy. And there is a growing transient population.
Schats has changed and there is a bakery that surpasses them as far as quality of baked goods. (yes, we used to eat hot chileno cheese bread on our way home from skiing weekends .) Let the tourists have that crowded parking lot. The chileno cheese bread has less cheese and peppers and is consistantly over baked. More recently, we'd get the volkeren bread but it has been over baked on the outside and underbaked on the inside. Great Basin Bakery has great asiago sourdough bread and good jalapeno cheese bagels, plus fantastic oversized cookies. The best dougnuts in town are at Hing's.
Much missed from the "old days" are Mountain Light Gallery, Culver's Sporting Goods, and, soon...Kmart. And Perry Motors Chevy franchise.
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Post by bluefish on Jan 28, 2020 10:53:55 GMT -8
[tr][td class="content"][article] Much missed from the "old days" are Mountain Light Gallery, Culver's Sporting Goods, and, soon...Kmart. And Perry Motors Chevy franchise. [/article] Thank you for that. I just found out about Galen's gallery, K mart initially appalled me, but I bought a pack duffle for the plane and some Coleman fuel for the Whisperlite in there. Now I'll miss it. Culver's? I bought my temp fishing license there, sometimes canister fuel, but that's found just down the street. Culver's was my go to in the 70's. Perry motors, I don't have a tie to, I had an old Volvo. I noticed Whisky Creek was gone and long ago, El Charro disappeared, the best Mexican food ever. We like Las Palmas OK. It's hard for us to do two plane trips a year, and we're locked into another canyon trip. This may be the year though. I just miss walking into Little Lakes Valley too much and taking off over Mono or Morgan Pass or heading up the scree at the end of Long Lake to go off trail. Maybe this Sept. So many years go by, and it still rips me apart to think I left. I was in a band called the Lone Pine Rangers and we played live on the small Bishop radio station on Sunday mornings. A friend and bandmate in Santa Barbara just reminded me of that yesterday. It's kind of painful. Most amazing newer sight to me? Water in Mono Lake. |
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jan 28, 2020 12:44:25 GMT -8
Ha...El Charro! In our younger years we used to get happy hour pitchers of frozen margaritas made in a slushie machine. Whiskey Creek has reopened under new ownership.
Bob Todd from Sierra Wave radio/media just passed away.
Perry Motors still sells Toyotas and Hondas
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