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"Owner Linda Hetzler Yachats' Drift Inn, built on the bones of a historic tavern, to celebrate 10th anniversary Updated: Jan. 10, 2019 By Lori Tobias | For The Oregonian YACHATS -- Twelve years ago, Linda Hetzler decided she wanted to save The Drift Inn, then known simply as Lester's. Owner Lester Blair had suffered several small strokes, and folks around town were beginning to worry he wouldn't survive much longer. They also feared that when Lester went, so would the historic tavern, a central part of the Yachats scene since 1929, when the lumber was hauled from Toledo down the beach to build the place. "So I went to Lester and asked if I could buy it," Hetzler says. "He said, No, I would never make money from the bar and he would never sell it to me." It was probably just as well. Hetzler had never worked in a restaurant and wasn't a particularly serious cook. Then, just as everyone feared, Lester died, the bar went on the market and there were no takers. Yachats was about to lose the place where hunters once brought fresh kill to store in the cooler, where Ken Kesey is said to have penned part of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and the place that every local kid knew, come Halloween, was the place to go. There were dozens of stories about Lester and his bar. He had served beer by the can or bottle and wine from the box. There was a pool table and a card room, and once, long ago, a boxing ring upstairs. "It was a workingman's bar," says Larry Nixon, Yachats city councilman. "I remember beers on draw, 10 cents a glass. There was always a jar of hard-boiled eggs in vinegar. The story was, that was Lester's complete chicken dinner." And on Halloween? "He would not just give them a candy bar, he gave them a small brown bag full of candy," Nixon says. "He was the payday. The best Halloween spot you could go to." So when Lester died in 1999, Hetzler decided it was time to act. But there were problems. "The building was in pretty bad shape," Hetzler says. "There really was no foundation. It was built on rock and some of it was sitting in the dirt. It sagged from front to back and side to side. And some of the 2-by-4s on the upper level were not connected to anything." On top of that, after she bought it, Hetzler learned she had six months to reopen or the license would expire, and there were no guarantees the city would issue a new one. "There was animosity in town because it was definitely a dive bar," Hetzler recalls. driftmural.JPGView full sizeMichael Lloyd/The OregonianLinda Hetzler got help from the community, including artist Marti Olsen, who donated the mermaid murals, to fix up the Drift Inn, a one-time dive bar. But she had invested her entire retirement savings in the business and faced the very real prospect of losing it all she had invested -- the $75,000 purchase price and another $350,000 from her savings. So with two toddlers on her hips and a staff made up of friends, Hetzler reopened the place in 2000 and learned the restaurant business. She cooked the same food she made at home and let her staff devise their own entrees. A customer taught her how to run a computer program to do her books, and local workers helped with repairs. "There were times I was so exhausted, working from 8 a.m. to 10 or 11 p.m., doing all the cooking," Hetzler recalls. Finally, she got so sick, she couldn't get out of bed. "All of my friends came in and took over. They kept the place running until I could come in." These days, The Drift Inn employs a staff of 33. Her two younger kids help bus tables and count the till. Her oldest, Gretchen, 25, has worked there since the place opened. It has become part general store, part restaurant and the place everyone goes when they're looking for someone and not sure where to look. The menu has evolved into an eclectic offering of fresh and often organic foods, ranging from the "Tree Planter" bowl -- a hearty $5 entree of rice, beans, salsa and chips named for the man who suggested it -- to a bottle of Dom Perignon. "It's now become a gathering place," Nixon says. "There are informal meetings attended there pretty much on a daily basis. It's basically the character of Yachats." This year when Hetzler celebrates her 10th anniversary, she'll do it the way she always has, with a bash on Halloween in honor of Lester, who loved the holiday and loved the kids. "There was something very amazing and unusual about Lester's," Hetzler says. "People from all walks of life came in there. They were the very wealthy, very educated; the very poor and uneducated. I want to continue that legacy of maintaining a place that welcomes people from all walks of life, a place that offers sustenance, music and talk, a place to be entertained and entertain, a place to experience Yachats." -- Lori Tobias "
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