Big 'O' Saloon[/caption]Carol Forsloff---The pretty bartender smiles and pours you a drink. She has all of the wit and charm you would expect from those gals who worked the bar back in those western movies, outside of the fact she isn't flouncing a skirt and singing as well. But she and the ambiance of the saloon make one feel like they are right back in an old Roy Rogers movie, only it's a way station on the way to the Oregon Coast, but with the appeal that speaks to everyone of old time, good times.
Christina Kaul makes strangers feel right at home, as the restaurant serves food and those delightful beverages cowgirls and cowboys like to imbibe a bit on a journey or on the way home. This restaurant - bar has all the decor of the Old West, which is what Oregon is, of course, as the last outpost of the United States that Lewis and Clark discovered and that people from everywhere have as well, finding those old ways still captured in places like the Big 'O' Saloon.
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Customer at the old saloon[/caption]Country music on the weekends, beer on tap, great food and smiles from great looking gals dedicated to bringing the best, while enjoying the job as well work at the Big 'O' Saloon. Christian and her friend and co-worker, who runs the convenience store that is tucked alongside the bar-restaurant, are the kind of young women one might think of as part of what's happening in some big town. But these small town girls like living in the country.
"It's fun here," Christian exclaimed. "There's plenty to do, horseback riding, meeting friends, being outside, living in the country and never dull around here."
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Christina and Shelley, with Christina tending bar and Shelley tending the general store[/caption]The West is here, in its full regalia, with the Olney General Store and the Big 'O' Saloon. Enjoy the moment vicariously through pictures or stop by on Hwy 202 on the outskirts of Astoria, Oregon next time you're passing through.
