The bucolic town ofLos OlivosinSanta BarbaraCountyis a little more than a hundred years old. If a visitor wants a sense of the local history, Mattei’s Tavern, built in 1886, is the place to go. One of many monuments to a by-gone era, it was a stagecoach stop where guests stayed overnight during their journeys, back when the only mode of transportation was horse-drawn carriage. It also became a stop-off point for the Pacific Coast Railway narrow gauge line, constructed in the 1880s when travel by land along the coast ranged from difficult to impossible. At its zenith, it stretched over seventy-five miles from what was once calledHarfordWharfonSanLuisBay, south to Los Olivos. Passengers spent the night at Mattei’s before taking the stagecoach to Santa Barbara, the next day. Today, theCarriageMuseumis on this site, providing a visual history of the region. The original watering hole is now a charming eatery called Brothers Restaurant at Mattei’s Tavern. [download]
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