[Inyo-Mono]

Before I-40 through the Mojave Desert opened in 1973 or ‘74 I used to stop at the Bagdad Cafe along 66. Sign on the door said “No shoes, No shirt, no service and No Hippies.”

[Erasmus]

There's a quirky little movie by Percy Adlon called 'Bagdad Cafe;" he gives an artist's perception of life there.

CCH Pounder is the harried, overworked owner/manager of the cafe and gas station. Marianne Sägebrecht is the zaftig Bavarian tourist who gets stranded there, and attracts the interest of a former Hollywood scene painter played by Jack Palance.