A resident of Silverado Canyon, Collins also wonders what will become of the beloved landmark. Josh Collins, a reserve firefighter with the Orange County Fire Authority, was on scene Wednesday night.
Read more: Survivor describes 'war zone' inside Cook's Corner mass shooting victims identified “It was always kind of mismatched,” Day said, “a little seedy perhaps, but you were always OK to go inside.” At the time, there might have been horses standing in the shade of the oak that grew over the patio. “It was a terrible thing to happen, so sad these shootings are everywhere and people can’t seem to contain themselves.”ĭay, 77, recalls first visiting the bar in the early 1950s, when her father stopped by with the family for ice cream and French fries after a day at O’Neill Park. “I hope it will recover,” said Caroline Day, a longtime resident of Modjeska Canyon, one of three rural communities that along with Silverado and Trabuco canyons consider Cook's their own. Investigators under a blue tent perimetered by yellow police tape are piecing together the chain of events that led a retired Ventura police sergeant, John Snowling, to such a rampage. That idyll ended abruptly Wednesday when a gunman fired upon a crowd that had gathered to listen to a cover band on spaghetti night at the watering hole, killing three and wounding six. A hamburger stand-turned-roadhouse up against rolling hills, it belongs to plein-air reveries of old California but with dozens of Harley-Davidsons parked out front, glinting in the sun.
Not far from the red-tile roofs and stucco subdivisions of eastern Orange County, Cook’s Corner is an anachronism, a throwback to when the county was known mostly for its eponymous trees and its ranches and orchards stretching to the sea.
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