Red Barn Restaurant - Panorama City - 1975 - vintage postcard - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - 2008 from Gary Fredburg (click on picture to enlarge)The Red Barn Restaurant was located at the crossroads of Parthenia and Van Nuys Boulevard. It was a much appreciated cafe, specializing in American bar-b-que and traditional meals. The Red Barn was just across the street from the old Hughes Market.
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i saw an article that included the name Webb McKelvey. the name was only mentioned once, and i think it had to do with your brother. please accept my condolences on the passing of your brother. i wanted to see if you knew Webb. i met mr. mckelvey recently. ben
Dear Ben,
Yes, my brother and Webb McKelvey were in the US Marine Corps together.
I actually knew Webb's grandfather, who was in the first graduating class of the University of Southern California.
Jerry Fecht
Please email me at
jerry@anchoreducation.com
Went there as a kid back in 1962. :)
I was 15 years old when my parents and I started going to the Red Barn Restaurant in 1960 for lunch after church. One time my uncle was out from Ohio visiting. On a Sunday afternoon, he met William Frawley the actor having a drink at the bar. The last time I went to the Red Barn was 1979. I shall miss the atmosphere there.
Ed Read
emread67@gmail.com
My mom worked at the Red Barn for 30 years. Great meals, great times.
I've been here in San Fernando Valley 40 years and never heard of the Red Barn restaurant. There was Red Lobster & Golden Anchor between Roscoe past Chase towards Nordhoff. A coffee house was to the left of Red Lobster. There was a Mike's Pizza with sawdust on the floor towards Titus street on Van Nuys Blvd. too.
When did Farrells Ice Cream Parlour become a Sizzler restaurant @ 7131 Van Nuys Blvd.? Thanks.
When I was a kid and young teen my parents would take me there every Sunday evening.
I was stubborn and would only eat cheeseburgers and fries. All I can think about now is how many free Steak Dinners I missed. 52 weeks times .....
They also had this weird clock up near the ceiling, florescent green glow with a spinning ring around the edge
Great photo of the Red Barn Bar & Grill
This is where I proposed to my late wife.
That was June 25th, 1983.
We sat on bar stools sipping our drinks discussing life and marriage and our friend’s wedding that we had just left (Griffith Park??).
The movie theater we were going to go to, was across the street from the Red Barn (Panorama City theaters), but the movie had already started, so we decided to go to the Red Barn and have a couple drinks, grab some food and watch the next showing. We sat toward the far left side of the bar. It looked just like this in 1983.
Somewhere in our discussion one of us brought up the sanctity of marriage and divorce. We both asserted that divorce was not an option. In this line of conversation, I posed a hypothetical argument of increasing harms upon her from me. From drinking, to drugs, to cheating to see what she meant by not divorcing. Nothing suaded her from her argument.
Totally surprised by her commitment to marriage, I further surprised both of ourselves and out of the blue I asked her if she would marry me.
Mind you, I didn’t have a ring on me, but apparently, the bar tender was listening and resourcefully pulled off a cigar label and gave it to me to use for the moment. To my very great delight, she jumped at me and said, “Yes, Yes!!”
She made me the happiest guy in the world that day, Saturday, June 25th, 1983, at about 4:30pm.
Right there on those bar stools at the Red Barn Bar & Grill. It turns out after all that a bar & grill can be a romantic place to propose, if true love is there.
We went on to be married on November 26th, of that same year, 1983. We had three beautiful children and celebrated our 26th Anniversary in 2009. She never divorced me, nor was there any such talk, or even thought for those 26 years.
We had the perfect marriage. But unfortunately, our marriage did end, when God took her on one fateful day on Christmas, December 25th, 2009 after we fought a stage 4 lobular breast cancer for almost 9 years.
During our almost 27 years we were the happiest of married people we knew.
Thanks for the photo. Are there exterior photos somewhere? Would you know the bartender that Saturday afternoon in June?
Thanks again. Al
Didn't the Red Barn have live music in 1975? I know our band the Springfield rifle and the sonics played at the Red Barn in California
Ralph Rousseau, ---Wife and I would eat there in the late 50's/early 60's
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