Nepenthes Bird
by Barbara Snyder
Title
Nepenthes Bird
Artist
Barbara Snyder
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Reproduction
Description
Nepenthes Bird
If you ever take the drive along famous California coastal Highway One, you will find Nepenthes, probably the most popular spot between Morro Bay and Monterey.
Nepenthe is in the Big Sur area and is family owned restaurant and gift shop. But that’s not all. Form both its front patio and the rear patio deck, it offers up some of the most gorgeous coastal views in the Big Sur area along the heavily tourist traveled, highway. Not to mention the food.
Nepenthe has been called the Mecca of poets, artists, travelers and vagabonds, as one travel writher described it, since April of 1949.
It is currently owned and operated by second and third generation decedents of Lolly and Bill Fassett. However it has also had a somewhat colorful history of ownership, or at least the site has.
In 1944 Orson Wells and his then wife, Rita Hayworth bought the property on a romantic whim after having picnicked on the site that had nothing but a log cabin on it. Shortly after having bought the property their marriage failed and they sold it having never spending one night in what was to be a romantic getaway.
Contrary to public misconception, Orson nor Hayworth never owned the restaurant.
The 1965 movie classic, “The Sandpiper”, staring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor was filmed on the location. It was due to the success of the movie and the restaurant being made famous by the scenes in the movie that Fassetts were able to transform the restaurant from seasonal to year around.
I have been visiting this site for years and years. The wood sculpture, Nepennthe’s Bird, as I refer to it greets you as you enter the terrace where Richard and Liz one filmed a famous movie.
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March 9th, 2013
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