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MARIPOSA, CA Mariposa
is a gatway town to Yosemite Park with a decidedly Old West flavor--the
sort of place where all the old guys in town are already drinking coffee
in the Mexican restaurant at 6 AM, and where the steak house displays
branding irons and other ranch paraphernalia. The breakfast joint had,
instead of wallpaper, hundreds of 33 rpm album sleeves glued to the
walls--mostly from the 50s. I saw Johnny Mathis and Vaughn Monroe covers
I hadn't seen in decades. The bare hills on the way from San Francisco
to Mariposa are dotted by thousands of giant windmills to produce, I
presume, electrical power for the area: a reminder that Jerry Brown
was governor of this fair state, and a subliminal appeal to the estimable
Don Quixote. Business focus is missing, as in the sign advertising "Retaurant,
Bakery, Cocktails, Arcade". Why no pool hall?
Copyright© 2002 - Darrell Taylor |