HIGH DESERT EATS: The Bagdad Café doesn’t look like much. It’s a shacky, rundown place on Old Route 66, in the dusty high desert about 20 miles east of Barstow. The tumble-down motel next door is ...
Andrea Pruett, the owner of the iconic Bagdad Cafe on Route 66, has died at the age of 85. Pruett and her late husband purchased the Newberry Springs cafe nearly 32 years ago, which became a popular ...