Bagdad Cafe on old Route 66

This little roadside diner in Newberry Springs, CA was featured in a 1987 German movie and is now very popular with German and French tourists, bikers...and anyone looking for a solid breakfast in this part of the desert!

[@bobh.9035]

The film "Bagdad Cafe" is a masterpiece. Anyone who can't appreciate it has had their souls diminished somehow....

[@MikeEgypte]

Hehehe, she should have watched the movie and not just visit, huh?

[@marlonschluga]

It was so disappoint to hear her comment! I was like... please cut it short!

[@DVincentW]

I love the film Bagdad Cafe 1987 Comedy · A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to .... This movie exemplifies how one person in the right place can affect a community of lives.

[@Ifoughtpiranhas]

Agreed. It was a delightful film with likable characters.

[@devontaewilliams1685]

I strongly agree well said it sure is a lovely movie it really touches my heart. 🙂❤🙂

[@w3r0ification]

Kind of what happen to that girl that got killed she move their with a guy and end up dead and to this day they haven’t find her body and she was working in that restaurant for two days

[@TinShackVideos]

Loved Jack Palance in that movie!

[@Ifoughtpiranhas]

Bagdad Cafe is actually a really good film. Sure it's quirky, but the characters are likable, the actors mesh well together, the camera work and color filters make the viewer almost feel as they are a guest in the same rundown desert motel. The soundtrack is also hauntingly beautiful. It's a good film to watch when you want to watch a more "human" film instead of the typical run-of-the-mill summer blockbuster.

[@HiDesert004]

I think it's one of Jack Palance's best films!

[@BartzabelAlgol]

I just love those desert areas! Looking at the sky at night out in the mojave is simply mind blowing!, you can actually tell the curvature of the earth, its something I will never forget. I miss going there ever since I broke my back and became a paraplegic I've been unable to go. But thankfully I have wonderful memories of traveling with my mother, rest her soul.

[@Wonderhussy]

Thanks for sharing your memories! I appreciate your love of the desert :)

[@ronbender3313]

I liked the movie..

[@RalphGuest]

So, I’m watching Huell Howser’s Road Trip back in the 90s when he showcased The Bagdad Cafe and being familiar with SoCal in general because I grew up in San Diego, I knew where the place was but I didn’t have a car to get there. So in 2004 when I bought my brand spanking new Tacoma truck, I made it a point to retrace a bunch of Huell’s footsteps. And Bagdad Cafe was on the top of my list. So I drove into the area south through 29 palms and Bristol Lake and onto the 66 towards Newberry Springs. I got a real nice greeting at the Bagdad Cafe when I got there. What I was really looking for was the picture of Burt Lancaster that was hanging on the back wall. During Huell’s interview he asked him who that was in the picture and he couldn’t remember and it just cracked me up that who in the heck could not recognize Burt Lancaster from back in the day! But unfortunately the picture was gone. So I had big fun and of course I got my Bagdad Cafe T-Shirt to commemorate the visit and continued on to Death Valley since I just so happened to be in the neighborhood… lol

[@milkywayan2232]

The movie was fantastic! It is 2024. 1 March. I just watched it. Thanks for the recommendation.

[@Super_Chief]

Was nice seeing this video again after watching your more recent visit to the Bagdad.

[@markpashia7067]

So glad the Wonderhussy archive is here to keep me sane during this CV lock down. I guess you need some miles under your feet to appreciate the movie. By the time I saw it I loved it.

[@mikespikedog5293]

I never realized how beautiful the Desert is until I found your channel. Such amazing videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnholcomn8560]

Exactly.

[@brendtoconnell6119]

Went back in time tonight. Loved it. Thank you!!

[@user-ir8sb4ss7r]

Been at the Cafe and had a Jack Palance burger. The place was unimpressive with no air conditioning with a fair dose of dust and flies. A couple semis outside creating clouds of dust. But in the middle of a 90 degree table with a window, a bus load of tourists entered and overwhelmed the limited spàce amidst all the paraphernalia and stickers. It's truly a piece of Americana. As corny as it sounds, it was a once in a lifetime experience to just be there.

[@rkmatt8761]

I just watched your current video of the Bagdad cafe with the lady in her 80s trying to get it fixed up with the guy helping her. Interesting to see this older video of it. 👍

[@edithofr.i.emeraldisle5042]

Yes ! Yes....watch it again,......you're an artist....deep, gorgeous, magical film?.....and the theme song is transporting.

[@Lostmineagain]

6-2024 and the folks here were so nice. Beautiful stretch of old route 66.

[@MsMoongchi]

Bagdad Cafe, best movie that I ever watched in these years. Such a touching beautiful story although with the sad backgrounds, music. Rare cool film that I would like to recommend if you like movie.

[@JulsB63]

"Bagdad Cafe" the movie is my all time davorire movie. So cool to see.

[@phoenixarmijo7553]

It was one of those pivotal indi movies of the 80's. Women who help each other survive and thrive. Good men who care.

[@nwroyalty1958]

the movie gives u a new perspective

[@milosledge6843]

Wonderhussy I loved the movie!!!! LOL

[@dekcgi7891]

..... Like your smile..... Love your style.....!!

[@MrGaryRoberton]

Thank you for all the cool places I didn't know existed, Kinda like the universe next door.....

[@Wonderhussy]

I'll go there next! :-o

[@wolfpak8228]

Beautiful pup!!

[@robingallagher8589]

Great movie with a great soundtrack.

[@MrDavedraver888]

so loving your channel vblogs.. really inspiring and informative ..Keep em coming :)

[@rtrussell8932]

When I was a kid, I lived in that motel just to the west of it on a semi-permanent basis (the same one they used in the movie). The cafe was called the Sidewinder then, and my grandmother used to give me $5 for lunch every so often. I'd walk over and get a burger and a coke. There was still some traffic on the old Route 66, but mostly it was locals that kept the cafe in business.

[@adequatebus8280]

ha! been there several times. nice piece, thank you. -C

[@staticsky7287]

one good thing the owner don't need to paint the place.thumbs up.

[@albertodiaz1077]

Love your videos

[@surfdetective]

u gotta watch the movie again, it's a cult classic. with jack. pallen,actually won a prestigious award in France . next time interview the General...one of the strangest people you'll meet.better off not washing your hands there

[@marywacker528]

Bagdad Cafe was a fabulous movie.

[@juniethacker3893]

Another great "scenic" video and I like the way you give details about various places. You should leave one of your signature hats here. Keep on keeping on, and thanks.. :)

[@LeXxBoX]

your beats/music intro's are really good and your Vlog 100% love it -lexx

[@icebrakernh]

I've been there a time or two great food and small-town business

[@rudedogii]

I have been by there many a time. Looks kind of creepy as you drive by. Thanks for sharing! Maybe I'll stop for breakfast next time.

[@Wonderhussy]

Food is pretty good!

[@RaoulThomas007]

An extra point for working “creepy” into a Wonderhussy video!

[@ednixon]

It used to be the sidewinder café and Motel once upon a time just like sidewinder Road is now Outlet Center, Drive in Barstow. Then whoever finds locations for Percy Adlon before he made his timeless 1989 classic film here forever changed it to Bagdad cafe. there are very few movie locations that are as famous and transcendent as this one. Especially with the French, where are the cult following of this movie is phenomenal, putting the Bagdad Café on the European tourist map.

[@davec9244]

You have come a long way baby. The post you made today on Bagdad Cafe is much better, you like fine win improve with age. Forever young stay safe ALL thank you.

[@funride58]

I loved that movie too, it's one of my favorites.

[@mikebavoso26]

Thanks for going and doing this video. I was going to take a ride and see what's going on in Baghdad and now I don't have to go. Going to see if you have a video about Amboy, once again I won't need to go thank you. If you go to the little town of Caliente on the backside as the road exits this little Whistle Stop, the sign says something about going to Lake Success or Porterville. This is a one-lane road with cattle Gates and telephone poles are like 10 feet apart, that must mean the wind blows very hard. I'd like to see that so I don't have to go.

[@suave319]

Love your content.

[@enriquelaroche5370]

Please watch the film again.. Classic avant garde .

[@BIGBADWOOD]

WOW Another great video !

[@remko1238]

is a great movie indeed 🙏🏼

[@StabbinJoeScarborough]

Great tune !

[@jennylankford2078]

I love the movie, Bagdad Cafe... I found Newberry Springs in the credits and realized I drove past the area when visiting my daughter... So I made the stop several times

[@TheRocketbob22]

DANG Sara, we all like to eat, especially breakfast. I did so want to see the breakfast plate. You took time to p and wash your hands, next shot, empty plate, what a bummer, taking off one star for that tease.

[@Treva2000]

I'm glad you stopped there. I watch the movie, Bagdad Café at least twice a year. It's interesting how troubled people from different walks of life ended up becoming one big family. Like you, I didn't care for the movie when I first saw it in the 80's, but when I saw it again several years ago I paid more careful attention to the characters and what made them the way they were. Wonderful, quirky little movie.

[@Wonderhussy]

+Treva2000 I need to rewatch

[@thelyingscotsman197]

Not living near any deserts I find your videos fascinating .(Hardly any sun in England ).lol

[@Wonderhussy]

+Ian Nethercote glad you are enjoying! I would love to poke around the historical stuff in England sometime... I went there once but only had time to go to Stonehenge and a few sites in London. It's a different kind of history but it's equally fascinating

[@BartzabelAlgol]

Wish I had one of those original or even a new airstream trailer they are awesome!.

[@TruAnRksT]

Lived in one until I was 3 years old. still remember it.

[@mobiltec]

I think that was either a Silver Streak or an Avon.

[@Nina-kt8wj]

The movie was awesome...

[@themis5543]

I'd like to visit this place just because of the song/film. ♥

[@vkorchnoifan]

Thank you so much for visiting Newberry Springs. The Route 66 stop Bagdad is no longer there. People have chip away everything. The cafe in Newberry Springs adopted the name "Bagdad Cafe" because the original is no longer there. But the movie continues to endure and I am happy for it. Again many thanks for going and shooting a video of the town and cafe.

[@VegasheatX-tra]

that sure looks like the one in the movie is the closed hotel sill next door

[@Wonderhussy]

no, they tore it down

[@VegasheatX-tra]

movie was boring as hell .but the French love it....Go figure. I drive a charter bus out of vegas and took hundreds of French there to buy a cup of coffee and a t shirt....think we're in the wrong biz....

[@MrSpongie1]

That place looks pretty Kool... yeah buddy...

[@poodles4u]

I'd hate to be the one to dust all that stuff. lol

[@bobbyharper8710]

I see you have brought along our mobile honeymoon cottage on this trip.

[@Wonderhussy]

LOL

[@yuriphekov8925]

I want to be there! The movie was great!! hahahha

[@margaretbowen867]

Let's update the comment section. Hello from Margaret and Miss Molly the Mini Schnauzer!!!!🐺😉

[@brianrussell8656]

Have drove route 66 quite few time a lot of roadside attractions back in the day . Funny went too pizza place accross street from base . Had beer while waiting for pizza . A bunch of big bad looking bikers came in all dressed in leathers . I got my pizza and went outside , the whole parking lot filled with mopeds and skuitors . About pissed my pants laughing so hard . All those guys would be laughed out of town in my Nick of the woods . Never will forget that as long as I live . Do you have any funny stories about Germany when you lived their . Loved German beer and food and a lot of good people . Be safe in your adventures .

[@jimz508]

I agree with some of the other commenters great movie ... Even though I don't remember passing through the area .. it was still the main route the highway had not been built.

[@jackrobinson5974]

This place is famous because of the great movie.

[@wolfpak8228]

Truly a place of memories

[@littlecasino60]

This has probably already been said, but in the movie there was a motel there also.

[@bensonparker6981]

Good one!

[@nomaddaze]

looks like a place Huell Howser would have visited..... and all the movie stuff sort of reminds me of the movie Museum in Lone Pine. I've stayed in Lone Pine or passed through it so many times but I never checked out the museum until just this last summer I'm glad I did it was worth the 5 bucks : )

[@Wonderhussy]

I've been to that museum; it's cool! Huell Howser did film an episode here :-) Or at least he visited once

[@Wonderhussy]

I love him so much!!!

[@kxrv6629]

Greetings from Peggy Sue’s in Yermo! Was looking to watch the movie The Bagdad Cafe thinking it might be on KZbin when I found this older video of yours I hadn’t watched. The Bagdad Cafe today makes me sad. It is a shell of its former self during its Huell Howser Hay day. I first came here with my Dad in 1994 during our first Route 66 roadtrip from LA to Tulsa, Ok. It was only 6 years after the movie and it was called The Sidewinder Cafe then. It was a fully functional cafe then with none of this graffiti. In 2001 I was back and actually met regular General Bob. The one good thing about our last visit in 2017 was we got to meet longtime owner Pierre Andre. Hmmmm. Should I go back again today?

[@gordbaker896]

Neat place. Hope you put your sticker up!

[@maxjasmine]

"And there's the remnants of the breakfast I ate!"

[@stevebelt5037]

U so fun...and sweeeeet

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

Thank-you for posting. It brings back memories, but it was never as cluttered as it it seems to be now, and it is all because of tourists. But I guess that's what brings in the revenue to pay the bills . . . . . . . . . . . . S M H .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[@jackrobinson5974]

Are you kidding?? Bagdad Cafe was a fantastic movie.

[@robertboudreauxxx]

You're hella fine if you ever get up towards Northern California maybe we can hook up and go check out some cool places, you rock keep up the good work I love your videos

[@shugthehornyhaggis]

i used to love that show is itnthe same place is woopy goldberg there

[@JOEYHIPHOP2008]

What a day ⚓

[@kenbrown438]

Didn't Huell Howser visit here !!!!????

[@ToddEWalnuts]

0:25 "Even a dog gets a warm piece of the sidewalk" Lefty in Donnie Brasco Did you rock some Elvis on that Jukebox?

[@Wonderhussy]

I love Donnie Brasco!!! I didn't play any music though

[@DiscoverWithPajerico]

Nice airstream`s

[@apocyldoomer]

Awesome, I just purchased a brand new van, time for a ROADTRIP, I'm in Pennsylvanis, so it's going to be a long trip, your videos are awesome, ever meet Adam the Woo on your travels?

[@Wonderhussy]

I've never met him, but I only found out about him last month!! So who knows? We may cross paths! Congratulations on your van....ENJOY IT!

[@apocyldoomer]

Wonder Hussy Thanks, and, I like Adamthewoos abandoned places series, not so much his daily vlog, but, he's been to many places as you have. Cheers, do you drink alcohol, just wondering..keep on truckin...

[@ddm220]

Whadda babe !

[@jjim2492]

sing the showtime at the bagdad gas and oil cafe song !

[@camodudemtbh7594]

ive got a 1958 mobile scout trailer I wanna take up there

[@joycee5493]

What are you talking about? The movie was great!

[@paulbetka1803]

Where's your sticker ❓❓😀😍😘👍

[@Bobbo6665]

of course they made it big, they got their picture up in that dive restaurant didn't they.

[@mobiltec]

So what kind of Vintage Trailer is that you have there??? Looks to be a 60s trailer.

[@richardthomas1566]

Toughest chick north of the Pecos . Likes her coffee black and her underarms blacker. All in fun your the greatest love your videos

[@billparrack8612]

I live 2 doors east of the resturant all the locals call it the GAG BAG CAFE

[@billparrack8612]

Lived at 46630 national trail hiwsy

[@robins1241]

You have the most unique vlogs! Do you still model?

[@IvanKuznetsovz]

Hey Hussy, whats the song u used in this video?

[@jameshalverson9351]

you rock!

[@danielyoung6630]

who was that doggie, good doggie whoof!

[@MiamiMillionaire]

👍

[@raymondcline8194]

How do you like your coffee?

[@Koloherides]

Tony Curtis ex wife was French German she was in the movie she played French women that never talked I worked for Tony and met her at his house in Hawaii she in Europe is more famous than Tony thats why all the tourist

[@wbcars]

Polecam Warakomska Route66 Audiobook -:)

[@pavanatanaya]

You might want to let the management know that someone wrote on the walls

[@Jack-ne8vm]

So when do you take over Huell Howser's spot on PBS? They're running his old shows; time for someone new !

[@Wonderhussy]

I'm ready when they are!!!

[@Jack-ne8vm]

I wonder if KZbin content can get to PBS? A lot of people only have TV; some KZbin videos could be a nice change. Just think, Wonderhussy with Neistat 'after the break'. Make a call?

[@Wonderhussy]

that would be amazing! But I'd have to clean up my language/nudity first :-p

[@Jack-ne8vm]

Darn. Still, you got my vote.

[@jackassman6726]

Please Don't,,, We Love You just the way You are,,, Naked and Not Afraid...!!!!! Stay Safe...!!!!!

[@clouddweller1195]

The black German Shepherd must be yours/

[@32ducecp]

So in the still picture of you in the Airstream Trailer are you not wearing clothes?

[@badapple65]

Why? Why are you leaving here??? “Too much Harmony”…..

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

Girl. . . didn't you watch the movie ?