Hi Folks!
To celebrate the start of summer and the Summer Solstice, the West Coast Kappa Car Club has scheduled to visit the local Southern California mountains.
We'll climb up the San Bernardino Mountains to Running Springs, stop in Lake Arrowhead for Ice Cream, head off to Silverwood Lake, drive along the San Andreas Fault to lunch in Wrightwood. After lunch, we wind our way through the Angeles Crest Forrest back into Eagle Rock for a stop at Galco's Old World Grocery for a chance to get some very rare sodas and candies from days of yore.
Saturday June 21, 2008
Here's the plan:
Link to Google Map of route
Running Springs:
Images courtesy Running Springs Area Chamber of Commerce
Some pictures of Lake Arrowhead:
Images courtesy Lake Arrowhead Chamber of Commerce
Silverwood Lake:
Image courtesy California State Parks
The Grizzly Cafe in Wrightwood for Lunch:
Images courtesy Grizzly Cafe
Last stop is
Galco's Old World Grocery and Soda-Pop Stop family owned and operated for over 100 years where you can purchase classic and new sodas in glass bottles, and candies that you probably just can't find any more.
You might recognize the store from
"Visiting with Huell Howser". He's been there twice, once in 2000, and a return visit in 2008.
They have over 450 varieties of soda. Including some classics like Bubble-Up, Nesbitts, Coca Cola made from cane sugar, Moxie, Original formula Dr. Pepper, and Apple Beer.
At the back of the store, they also have an Italian Deli counter where they still sell the famous "Blockbuster" sandwiches.
It should be a beautiful and rewarding day driving through a part of Southern California that you just don't normally see.
Hope you can join us!
