Former location –
Marshall Tavern was located on scenic Highway 1 in Marshall, California. The tavern was founded in 1873 as a soda shop and hardware store for boat and rail travelers. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, it held concerts by Joan Baez, Van Morrison, Neil Young and others.
Neil Young played a three-day stand at the Tavern in December of 1975 causing a traffic jam on the narrow Highway that extended for miles.
The Tavern closed in 1982 and the building has been vacant for decades while developers consider what to do with it.
Marshall Tavern
20105 State Route 1
Marshall, CA 94940
I lived and worked at The Marshall Tavern. I tended bar there for several years and lived upstairs before and after the closing. On the last night, in 1982, we, the final crew and shift, drank the bottle of Blue Curacao. The only time that I ever poured it. We all ended up with blue tongues. Just a little trivia …
The Tavern was the most unique place that I ever worked. Here the locals and well known celebs rubbed elbows and partied in an atmosphere that really can’t be explained unless you lived it. There was a piece of wall graffiti that read, “If these walls could talk.”…