Old window casings have been painted with scenes of old Santa Rosa and inserted under the roof eaves. From the center of the main dining room, a small hay bale hangs from a genuine bale hook. The window casings have been painted barn red and fitted out with curtain rods made from dead branches Pflugrath collected near the ocean, suspended from horseshoes nailed upside down. The curtains were made to order from red cloth decorated with images of guitars, cowboy boots, cowboy hats, and the like. The phone booth in the passageway to a back room is fashioned to look like an old country outhouse, and a wash-up stand to clean your hands after plowing through a batch of ribs is made from two spigots suspended over an old clawfoot bathtub.
Country music twangs down from the sound system.
Ludy's symbol is a bucktoothed pig in a 10-gallon hat. The waiter is in denim, and the waitress in bib overalls with a red and white checked shirt. The tables are covered with red and white checkerboard oilcloth. Each table has a galvanized pail for discarded bones and napkins, and the walls are hung with old fashioned kitchen equipment. But I wonder whether kids today have any affinity at all for cowboy culture.