| Samoa Cookhouse | |
|---|---|
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  Location in California | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Slogan | The Last Remaining Cookhouse In The West |
| Established | 1893 |
| Street address | 908 Vance Ave |
| City | Samoa |
| County | Humboldt |
| State | California |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 95564 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°49′11.79″N124°10′54.29″W / 40.8199417°N 124.1817472°W |
| Website | www |
The Samoa Cookhouse is a historic restaurant in Samoa, California in the United States. It is the last lumber camp-style cookhouse in the American Pacific Northwest.
Originally it was a dining facility for the employees working the mills for the Vance Lumber Company and opened in 1893. [1] The cookhouse opened to the public in the 1960s and serves "lumber camp style", or family style, meals at long communal tables. [1] [2] The building also houses a museum with artifacts and images that focus on logging and "maritime industry" history. [2] The building is large enough to seat five hundred workers and to make cleaning the floors more efficient there were holes drilled into the floor with a grate to act as drainage for water rather than mopping. [3] The second floor of the building functioned as a dormitory for the waitresses. [1] [3] [4] Waitresses were required to be single during the period when the Cookhouse served only company workers, were paid $30 a month, and worked seven days a week. [4] The dormitory has a curfew and was locked at night and the women were not allowed to date on the weekdays. [4] There was, however, a secret passageway that led to the kitchen that waitresses used to leave the dormitory at night. [4]
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