The Point closing!

Went to The Point for one last lunch yesterday. Seems they are going to have a big party on Sunday, from 2-6. Supposed to be standing room only so I'd only go if you like crowds.
 
Yeah, we had our final meal there this past week as well. There seemed to be a somber mood throughout the place.

Every time that a Delta legends closes, it's like losing a friend. The Point was a good one that will never be forgotten...
 
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I got my (used) copies of Gardner's books off Amazon for a fairly reasonable price. Once you read one, you've pretty much read the other two. :)

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Yeah, pretty much like Hal's books! [:-spin]

But like a good movie, I'll take the "reruns" any day of the week!

His book, "Delta Images No. 1", originally started to include text, but then he decided to just make it a picture book and to continue on with No. 2, No. 3 and so on. But he never got around to doing them. Local interest books can be a tough sell, and for not much money.

I guess it never made sense to continue the series...

I have three of them. One, on my coffee table for guests to view with his other books, the second on my bookshelf in my home office and the third in my gun vault, vacuum sealed with his others that he signed many years ago.

He literally had thousands of Delta pics that unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever be able to see.

Sad to say... :(
 
Kind of caught this thread late. I'd imagine someone will take over The Point due to the location. My family goes all the way back in the Delta, as one of my great-grandfathers was very involved in its construction as we know it today. That is, the erection of levees and creation of the "islands". My father's cousin's family still operates a farm on Ryer Island, where I spent a lot of time pheasant and goose hunting and just hanging around in my youth. As did my Dad, there and other family farms. One of the funnest things I've done in boating was taking my Dad cruising about 7 years ago on the Delta, seeing all the old spots from the water, hearing him talk about those same spots in the 20's and 30's. He kind of liked what modern times had brought, particularly more places to dock, more restaurants on the water, better navigation aids and bridges. Before radar, they had big sounding boards erected at critical junctions and shoals, and more bell buoys and fog horns, quite a racket when the tule fog set in.

Since it is all in my blood I do miss it, including some "misty" afternoons at The Point. Luckily from my personal perspective as a Delta Rat, I died and went to heaven when I started cruising the Intracoastal and adjunct waterways in South Carolina and Georgia. Look at it this way, if California stays in decline, the Delta will stay closer to its roots for longer. There's your cloud's silver lining!
 
Wow!, that's quite a story! I bet you heard all kinds of great stories about the Delta. And even better that it came from your own family!

My earliest memory of fog horns and such was that there was a fog horn type system set up on the San Joaquin in the area of Lost Isle. I recall hearing the horns blowing, but that was before I really knew what actual navigation was all about. [:-ashamed]

And yeah, I'm sure that the restaurant will re-open with new operators. It's too much of a piece of Delta history to just let it sit idle.

But then again, so is Moore's Riverboat...

Thanks for chiming in. What a great addition to this thread! [:-thumbu]
 
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Originally posted by BayAreaBoater

Wow!, that's quite a story! I bet you heard all kinds of great stories about the Delta. And even better that it came from your own family!

My earliest memory of fog horns and such was that there was a fog horn type system set up on the San Joaquin in the area of Lost Isle. I recall hearing the horns blowing, but that was before I really knew what actual navigation was all about. [:-ashamed]

And yeah, I'm sure that the restaurant will re-open with new operators. It's too much of a piece of Delta history to just let it sit idle.

But then again, so is Moore's Riverboat...

Thanks for chiming in. What a great addition to this thread! [:-thumbu]

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Hopefully those who ran Moore's and The Lighthouse into the toilet won't be running The Point.
 
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