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Dave Crompton, Pancake Inn, South Strabane, PA |
You can't get pancakes at the Pancake Inn, nor at any other business in the Pancake, the unincorporated community established in 1822 by settler George Pancake. Before it was a bar, the Pancake Inn building served at least into the 1920s as a one-room schoolhouse, hard by the famous "National Road," originally comprised of the Native Americans' Nemacolin's Trail and Mingo Path, which was later traversed by George Washington himself on his way to erect Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War.
From aged Insulbrick interior it doesn't look like a place where you could take for granted that non-locals were welcomed, but they definitely are by Dave. He tells Dan the bartender that my first drink is on the house, and tries to do the same with my second. He enjoys chatting, generally responding with a satisfied, "Cool beans!"
The decor is just what you'd want in a classic dive -- artifacts that have plainly been collected over many years from many sources, including "Dusty," the mounted deer head, much in winsome disrepair, shabby but perfectly functional.
It's the sort of joint that I will make a point of visiting when I am in the area.
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