Rest in Peas

Back in this message, I talked about Pea Soup Andersen's restaurant in Buellton, California. It was a place that my parents and I used to visit when we took vacations to the north back in the sixties. It was a friendly diner that served great pea soup…and I haven't been there since around 1967.

Looks like I might not have another opportunity. Despite the "We Are Open" sign in the above photo, Pea Soup Andersen's has closed, a few months shy of what would have been its one-hundred-year anniversary. No word on if it's permanent but I have to shake the feeling that it wouldn't have closed if I'd eaten there at least once in the last fifty-some-odd years.