Joint created by 'hash slinger to stars' still cooks

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-roadhouse15aug15,0,7357366.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel

Joint created by 'hash slinger to stars' still cooks
Funky Patrick's Roadhouse near Santa Monica has fed a raft of celebrities, including Lucille Ball and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 15, 2007



The paint that covers Patrick's Roadhouse borders on the unappetizing -- think soggy yellow-green algae in a tidal pool. But Bill Fischler knew what he was doing when he chose the color in the early 1970s for his new eatery.

The eye-assaulting hue helped turn an otherwise lackluster building into one of the most recognizable landmarks on Pacific Coast Highway, and, with Fischler as alchemist, green became golden.

Long before he was elected governor, the young bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger was such a regular that Fischler commissioned for him a massive iron chair. It remains in Schwarzenegger's habitual spot because nobody but Ah-nuld can move the darn thing. He still pops in now and then for a plateful of bauernfruestueck(German farmer's breakfast), scrambled eggs with the works, renamed by chef Silvio Moreira in his honor as the Governator Special.

Through the years, other celebs including Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Goldie Hawn, Sean Penn and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg have downed omelets, pies, burgers and melts while sitting on the same smooth wooden benches that, starting in 1890 -- long before PCH existed -- held waiting train passengers. Bill Clinton once showed up with his entourage because he had heard the burgers were good.

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[iamahaingttta]

1. Somehow, I was expecting something different.

My brain seized upon the words "Joint" and "Hash" and I imagined the story to be about a giant spliff that just keeps burning.

I've been to Patrick's Roadhouse. Good burgers!