Lost Isle... Not yet.

Yeah, very sad to see. We used to eat there quite a bit. I always like to take the "scenic route" (160) back home from Tahoe, so we'd stop there for a nice meal instead of having to cook one once we got back home. Not really fancy, but good food.

We also enjoyed the German place at the original Warehouse at the dead end of the Stockton channel too. Back then, Hoig's Marine was the Sea Ray dealer there and they had quite a few boutique's (or should I say, "boatique's"???) as well as other boat broker's, a yogurt shop and a few other restaurants.

And hobo's. Lot's and lot's of hobo's... [-crzwom]
 
Pretty sad.....I used to love to pull into Herman and Helen's for breakfast.....great breakfast burrito and we also enjoyed having a few lemonades at The Point. They would always ring a bell when your boat pulled into the marina. Lots of changes in the old swamp, mostly not for the better

DBH
 
Back in the late 1980s my boyfriend and I loved to cruise up to the old Stockton Marina. It was well maintained back then. I would spend Saturday night so we could have dinner at one of several nice restaurants and catch some live music and dancing. We would dance til the band stopped playing; sleep in on Sunday morning; have a nice breakfast at one of eateries, then head back to Bethel Island. Great memories; wonderful times!
 
There are still a few places where the old Delta "feel" still abounds. Al's Place in Locke, Guisti's up on the "Moke" Tonys in Walnut Grove, Veiera's Resort in Isleton, Windmill down by Stockton and a few places on Bethel Island if the open this year......anyone add a few more?
 
Pirates Lair still has the old Delta charm. Oxbow has a tight knit group of berthers that make the place nicer. Tower Park kinda-sorta. I preferred the previous restaurant over the current Italian one. Yeah, they were overpriced ($27 for two burgers and fries), but the variety of food as well as the quality of it was good. The Delta Yacht Club's facility has kept the old school charm.

But I would have to say, hands down, that the original Moore's Riverboat was the best in all categories. Sadly, it will never come close to what it once was.

Other places that I miss include Tiki Lagun when it was run by Harold Taylor, the original proprietor; Del's Boat Harbor (now River's End); Tony's Harbor; Tracy Oasis; Whiskey Slu (when Ed & Jolly owned it); Turner's Cut (it was a dive before the term was used, as with most of the original harbors and owners in the Delta); Stephen's Anchorage (Rick was the best!, and they always had the best fuel prices); Wimpy's; The Ryde Hotel (we enjoyed many Christmas parties there); and last but not least, The Gangplank on Bethel Island (now LaVilla, but it started out life as Wanda's). A good friend and co-worker of mine back in the day had a "vacation home" in one of the trailer parks on the island (way before all of the sex-offenders and crankster's even heard of B.I.) and his wife worked there as a part-time waitress.

Just to name a few. :D

Sure, some of the places I mentioned are still around, but they lack the most important feature of them all. The founder's. You just can't buy the heart and soul of a place. You have to earn/create it.

As DBH said, lots of changes and (mostly) not for the better... [:-cry]
 
DBH-

Yeah, H&H whipped up a tasty meal! I had a friend that kept a houseboat there and whenever we'd meet up, I'd always save room for a nice, "down home" type of meal.

H&H used to have a bottom scrubber there behind the fuel dock. We used it quite a bit. It was essentially constructed with those big carwash scrubbers that looked like the old bottle cleaners (that usually scratched your car!). They would put the boat in place, hook up a line that was connected to a winch to your bow cleat/ring, and then fire up the scrubbers. They rotated in the direction of your boat, and then the winch would pull the boat forward while the scrubbers did their thing. The scrubbers would push your boat away from the winch and after a few passes back and forth, you'd have a clean bottom! It was a great idea!

There was one at B.I. for a while. It was attached to a floating dock that was tied up to the tule berm across from the area near the Sugar Barge. Same idea. I think they called it "Dirty Bottoms".

Using those things kept your bottom clean in between haulouts.

[:-viking]
 
I used to see those bottom scrubbers but it always seemed to be a gimmick. Nice to know they worked. H&H also had a well stocked store and a boat mechanic always around looking after houseboats I imagine. I fondly recall one October afternoon cruising by there with my brother and asking him if he thought the store might have some Bombay Saphire as we had a powerful desire for a gin and tonic after we put the hook down for the night. He said no chance but we pulled in any way and as you might have guessed, they had it. Very impressive

DBH
 
Yeah, I was skeptical at first, but when I saw all of the crud swirling around in the water after just one pass, my fears were erased. Sure, it probably didn't get 100% of all of the algae and slime off of the hull, but it certainly took off enough for me to notice an immediate difference in speed on the return trip to port.

I would imagine, as with pretty much anything, operator competence (or lack thereof) has a huge influence on the completed project.

I know that I, as well as all of my buddies that used it, were satisfied.

And the best part was that we enjoyed a nice meal before we left.

Bombay? Wow, they did have it well stocked! I would take a walk through the place on occasion and recall that they had a decent inventory.

Good times!
 
Around my house and boat, we refer to Bombay as "the Blue Lady" and she has led me astray many times.....but always with a smile on my face

DBH
 
I sure miss the old Isleton Crawdad Festival back in the mid-90s. Though crowded, the insanity hadn't quite started then. We used to camp at Vieira's for the weekend, Camp Site B, and would always reserve the site for the following year. LeMoine's Landing was there at the time. Don't know what was wilder then, Vieira's/LeMoine's or downtown Isleton.
 
The first time I was at Vieiras I think the bar was called Patty's Cookhouse and it was a happening place. That would have been in the early nineties. That was so long ago that I remember being there one night and wearing shorts. A lady at the bar bought my brother and I a drink because she liked my legs. Now I couldn't get a nickel for my legs. He'll of a note being this old

DBH
 
DBH- I resemble that remark! A nickel? Heck I couldn't get a penny!

Back in the day, I was referred to by my peers as "Ironman". But not for my fabulous six pack ( [:-paperbag] ), which has now turned into a twelve pack, but for the way that I dealt with all of the [:-censored] that I had to deal with in my first career and then jump right back into a second one!

Unfortunately, I never spent much time at Vieira's. Their claim to fame for me was that Barry Canevaro (the fishing guide) is from there. The next time I drive by the place, I'll turn in and scope it out. I'm always up for meandering around a marina or two. Or three. Or four... :D
 
LeMoine's Landing must have been what took over from Patty's Cookhouse since I was first there in 1994. It was a burger joint with pool table/bar in front and restaurant area in the back. Got pretty wild on the Crawdad Fest weekends! Vieira's is still a pretty cool place. Has not really changed in 20 years except the store. Am not sure what the current bar/restaurant is named these days. The last I remember was Mait's.

While we're going down memory lane, is The Outrigger bar/restaurant still around? Haven't been in 10 years. That place sure did rock on the weekends.
 
Do any of those places have food worthy of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? The Delta would be a great setting for a DDD show
 
He was at Giusti's. I saw the episode on TV and then again on YouTube.

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQnvEl6d-MY

Yummy!!!

Back in '98 or '99, a friend of mine and myself enjoyed the Santa Rosa Boat Show, and as we left, we drove by a new restaurant called Johnny Garlic's. We saw a nice crowd there, so we decided to have dinner. Wow!, what a meal! We told a lot of our friends about the place and heard back from some of them about how much they enjoyed the place too.

Little did we know what he was starting!
 
Cool

Johnny Garlic's is good. I think he shut down his other restaurant. His character makes the show.
 
Though a bad recording, great Giusti's DDD YouTube vid. The couple times I went by it on my boat, their smallish dock was always full. If there is decent parking, would like to check it out on the asphault slough.
 
Yeah, small dock and small parking lot. We've settled on a Wimpy Burger more than a few times because the dock was full. There used to be a dock upriver that was available for "overflow". We used it a few times and then made the short walk to the restaurant.

If driving, the road is one-way, and if you pass it, then you have to carefully navigate your way back and hope that no one comes barreling down the road at you.

Their parking is limited. There are a couple places to park up on the road and then there is a lower area (I hate the use of the word "lot", in this case) that is sort of paved and mostly gravel and vegetation.

We've driven there on a light day and it has been tough finding a space.

But all of this is worth it. Trust me. [:-chef]
 
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