There was once a columnist who (for many years) wrote for the Petaluma Argus-Courier newspaper, Bill Soberanes. Within that column, he would sometimes include a list called "You know you're an oldtimer if you remember . . ." and he would list some long-gone places and if you remembered it, you knew you were an old-school Petaluman.
I'm using that column passage as a tribute to long-gone but fondly remembered hamburger stand known around town as Scarf-n-Barf (although the official name was The Snack Bar). It was announced on Facebook that the owner of Scarf-n-Barf had recently passed away at the age of 95.
As you can see from the picture above, it wasn't much at all, just a run-down drive-thru (Petaluma's first, by the way) that served up the greasiest burgers (5 for a buck) and fries you ever saw. Seriously, the bag they gave you the food in was so greasy it was practically see-through. My grandmother would drive us over there (in her really cool metallic blue 1966 Thunderbird - DAMN, I loved that car) and when those greasy bags were handed over, I was always told to put the bag on the floor so the grease wouldn't get on the upholstery.
Those burgers were just about the best I ever had and judging from the postings on the Facebook page, I'm not the only one who remembers how good AND greasy they were.
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