The interior walls are stucco’d just the same way they were back in the 1920s, when the Cave House was a chicken restaurant called the Cave Garden. Hungry diners would show up at the Cave Garden for seats in the tiered outdoor dining area to the west of the Cave House and the stafff would prepare and serve the meals inside the Cave House.
However, Linda tells us that the property was being used to distribute bootleg alcohol (this was during Prohibition) and thirsty patron could enter hidden tunnels back behind the sandstone wall in the picture below.
Linda also told us of the Cave House’s rich history of the eccentric women who lived at, hang around, or owned the Cave House.
One such women was obsessed with keys — so much so that she would steal them from people. “The Key Tree” (pictured below) now sits in the corner of the Cave House living room as a tribute to this lady and visitors from all over the world bring Linda keys to hang on it.
We spent some time in this room with Linda listening to some really interesting stories of the house and its residents and Linda showed us a lot of great old pictures of the people whose lives were part of the Cave House story.
Of all things, Linda is a bit of a bone collector. She makes some really neat things out of some of the bones she’s picked up over the years and these are incorporated into the tour!
Linda tells us the word spelled out in the picture below was obviously supposed to read “CAVE” put some sticky-fingered youngster must have thought he really needed a piece of it for his own and it disappeared.