The Hide

Jamestown, California

The Rawhide Saloon from Highway 108 in the snow: the sign board on its wagon-wheel brackets reading RAWHIDE SALOON, with COCKTAILS, LIVE MUSIC and POOL beneath it, over the long dark roadhouse and its snow-covered roof

Rawhide Saloon

Cocktails. Live music. Pool.

Cocktails, live music and pool on Highway 108 — the words the saloon has kept on its own sign. On Highway 108 at the Jamestown end, with parking off the road.

18260 State Highway 108
Jamestown, CA 95327

The week at the Hide

Mondays
Locals happy hour, straight through
All day
Tuesdays
Pool tournament — free tables from one, warm-ups at five
6 PM
Wednesdays
Five-dollar margaritas, and line dancing every other week
7 to 9 PM
Thursdays
Karaoke with Gold Country Karaoke
7:30 PM
Weekends
Live music on the floor; six screens and the ten-footer for the game
Ask
Who is on tonight
Call the saloon
(209) 984-5110

Happy hour runs weekdays from one to six on domestic drafts and wells. The line-dancing Wednesdays alternate, and the weekend bill changes — the flyer for the month goes up on the Instagram.

Booked in

  • Fri 4 SepGirls Night Out the Show — Magic Hunks Australian Takeover, ticketed7 to 9:30 PM

A Jamestown landmark since 1964, by the saloon’s own count.

The Rawhide has held its stretch of Highway 108 for sixty years, and the room says so: pine board walls, a wagon wheel and a steer skull over the bar, rope lettering spelling the name above the stemware, a jukebox in the corner, and a dance floor big enough that the sign out front puts music before food.

1964
The year the saloon puts on itself, twice over. “A Jamestown landmark since 1964” ran in the masthead of every page of its own website, and the last version of that site signed off “Country Saloon Since 1964.”
The sign
Four words on a lit board over the door — COCKTAILS, LIVE MUSIC, a star, POOL — with a steer skull at each end. It is still the clearest statement of what the room is for.
Jim
A mounted buck with a cigarette in his mouth, up on the boards above the bar. “Come meet our smokin’ buck & take a pic,” the saloon wrote when it introduced him. People still do.
The floor
Swing classes ran on Monday nights in February 2018, ten dollars a head, taught by Christina and friends — “how to look fantastic out on the dance floor.” Tribute nights, ladies’ nights and touring shows have used the same floor since.
Today
Open every day. Locals happy hour on Mondays, the pool tournament on Tuesdays, five-dollar margaritas and line dancing on Wednesdays, karaoke at half seven on Thursdays, and a band or a DJ at the weekend — the month's flyer goes up on the Instagram, under the longhorn.
Behind the bar at the Rawhide on a December night: bottles ranked two shelves deep under the screens, shaded lamps along the counter, and a bartender in overalls laughing
Behind the bar
Jim, the saloon’s mounted buck, with a cigarette in his mouth, on the pine boards above the bar with blue neon behind him
Jim, the smoking buck

A full bar, and they mean it

“We know the meaning of full bar,” the saloon wrote on its own site. The list below is the one it published — twelve whiskies, a dozen mixed drinks and the taps and bottles, including a cider pressed a few miles up the road.

Scotch and whiskey
  • Basil Hayden’s
  • Gentleman Jack
  • Single Barrel Jack
  • Jameson 18 year
  • Crown Royal XO
  • Crown Royal Black
  • Dead Guy Whiskey
  • Cold Cock Whiskey
  • Johnnie Walker
  • Chivas Regal
  • Ballantine’s
  • White Horse
Cocktails and long drinks
  • Rawhide margarita
  • Bloody Mary
  • Moscow mule
  • Tequila sunrise
  • Cosmopolitan
  • White Russian
  • Martini
  • Mai tai
  • Tom Collins
  • Long Island
  • AMF
  • Irish trash can
Draft and bottles
  • Coors Banquet
  • Coors Light
  • Budweiser
  • Bud Light
  • Corona
  • Corona Light
  • Lagunitas IPA
  • Sierra Nevada
  • Indigeny organic berry cider

Parties and bands who want the floor

“Enjoy our country setting. Our saloon is available for parties and performances” — the saloon’s own words for the room. It has taken swing classes, tribute nights, ladies’ nights and touring shows on the same floor. Bands used to have their own way in: a page headed “Wanna perform at the Hide?” Call the saloon and ask for the date.

Call the saloon
Two regulars laughing at the bar rail under the neon beer signs, the daylight windows and the pool room behind them
Regulars at the rail

What you need before you drive out.

For a private party, a band booking or the night’s line-up, call the saloon.

The saloon
(209) 984-5110
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 1 PM to 9 PM
Friday, 1 PM to midnight
Saturday, 11 AM to midnight
Sunday, 11 AM to 9 PM
Happy hour
Weekdays 1 PM to 6 PM — $3 domestic 16 oz drafts and $3 well drinks
The room
A dance floor, three pool tables, a jukebox, six screens and a ten-foot stage screen, and a full bar.
Food
Bar snacks from the fryer. No dinner service.
Dogs
Listed as pet friendly.
Getting here
Highway 108 at Jamestown, with parking off the road.
Address
18260 State Highway 108
Jamestown, CA 95327