Venue: Pappy & Harriet's
Town: Pioneertown, US

Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace is a western-themed, barbecue restaurant and music venue near Joshua Tree National Park in Pioneertown, California. Accessible from California State Route 62, the restaurant lies four miles northeast of Yucca Valley. In 1946, a group of filmmakers built a Western-style movie set in the high desert 25 miles north of Palm Springs for the cowboy actors Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Production designers decorated the facades of "Main Street" with a Western saloon, bank, chapel and a cantina. Pioneertown and its cantina were used in more than 50 films and television programs throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including The Cisco Kid and Judge Roy Bean. In 1972, Francis Aleba, Harriet Allen's mother, purchased the building and opened "The Cantina"; a bar known for serving burritos and attracting outlaw bikers. The establishment in this form operated for a decade before closing. In 1982, Harriet Allen and her husband, Claude "Pappy" Allen, purchased The Cantina and renamed it Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace. The venue offered a combination of Tex-Mex cuisine and live music, with performances often featuring Pappy, Harriet, and their granddaughter Kristina. It also became a popular stop for bikers traveling through the Mojave Desert corridor. Harriet Allen was known for her cooking and occasional performances of country music standards, while Pappy Allen contributed to the venue’s construction and maintenance. The establishment developed a reputation for its welcoming atmosphere, attracting both locals and visitors to Joshua Tree National Park. Over time, Pappy & Harriet's gained wider recognition as a destination for food and live entertainment in the remote desert setting. When Pappy Allen died in 1994, hundreds of mourners from around the world attended his memorial, including Victoria Williams, who later recorded the song "Happy to Have Known Pappy" for her Atlantic Records release, Loose. A local airplane pilot, Jay Hauk, owned Pappy