Greasewood Flat

GREASEWOOD FLAT - for some special moments
I just received a check in the mail from the administrator for the settlement of a class action suit against American Express for over charging for something back in the nineties. It is for $1.39 which is my share. I don’t know about you but I am very tired of attorneys using my name among others to line their own pockets with dollars. I sent mine back so they have the opportunity to place it somewhere the sun don’t shine.
But on to Greasewood Flat, it is a venerable watering hole located in the Reatta Pass area of the McDowell Mountains just north of Phoenix. Located on Alma School Road between Happy Valley Road and Dynamite Road it is an easy half hour drive from almost anywhere in the area. Look for a hard to see weather beaten sign at the road and drive down the quarter mile dirt driveway (hey who cares it’s a rental car) and you will find one of Arizona’s treasures, a ramshackle group of buildings surround a courtyard full of beat out picnic type tables filled with people from all sorts lifestyles, Businessmen in their Jeans, Bikers out on a ride, families, College kids, Seniors, you name it. The tables are usually filled with empty and half full beer bottles and plastic drink cups because you serve yourself from the bars in the buildings and hardly ever are the tables cleared. Music plays and people dance in the middle around a kind of May Pole on the concrete dance floor. They have, to die for, Hamburgers and Chicken Sandwiches which you order in the bar and wait to get when your number is called. All this and prices that are reminiscent of the 1950’s. It sometimes gets cold in the evenings so there are half metal drums strategically placed around and stacks of firewood so you can start your own warming fire.
If you want to go, plan it soon because the owner is now in his nineties and this place which used to be out in the middle of nowhere has become surrounded by million dollar homes and a toney four seasons resort just across the road. No guarantee that his heirs will be able to resist the millions the land will bring.