As you may know, owner Woody McEvers closed Rustler’s Roost/Hayden Sunday to move into a new building 100 feet away. It’s the third move for the Roost. Kendra Goodrick-Martinez recalls the eatery’s second incarnation (in the old Sambo’s restaurant building on CdA’s Sherman in the late 1980s): “Rustler’s Roost was my absolute utopia of a bohemian paradise ... keep in mind, this was before Java, before the other end of Sherman became hip. And we were probably not Mr. McEvers’s favorite customers: Basically, we’d come in for hours at a time, drink endless cups of coffee, and perhaps the more flush among us would order a biscuits and gravy or two ... But, oh, the conversation. I hung with the bookish stoner crowd that chafed at all things establishment and thirsted for something, anything, as long as it was big city or even better, Eurotrash. I remember sitting, entranced, one day, all my friends leaving one by one, as I first read Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Looking up, guiltily, as the waitress finally asked me to move up to the bar. I looked around and realized I was alone in a large booth littered with detritus from probably a dozen like-minded teens who’d come and gone. I breezed out of there, head filled with visions of beat poets and cross-country travel, feet barely touching the floor. Woody wants as many volunteer feet on the floor as he can get from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday when he moves the innards of his restaurant next door. He’ll throw in a free breakfast for those who help out. Will you work for food? Have snake, will travel
