Creedence Clearwater Brewing Company Opens in Time for Thanksgiving

Wouldn't you know the factory is located up and around the bend.

Hey, isn't there a "secret" missile base nearby?

 

Great work as always, Lee.

 

Bruce

Great Job Lee and thanks for the story.

Have to go CHOOGLIN to get there unless you are a CROSS TIE WALKER.   Great job, Lee.

 

A great addition to that part of the layout and a nice conversion from a door factory.

 

Your imagination seems to have no end.

 

Thanks for posting,

Don

 Do you brew Willy's Poor Boy Porter this time of year ?

Superb update to the door factory and the names are great! Another impressive build Lee. Terry

Great job lee! Love the puns!
Maybe they can exspand the buisness and get another location in centerfield if the beer sale are way up next year.

Very GOOD JOB Lee!!!!!!

Do they have a good Stout?

 

Looks great Lee!

Has the CEO cut his hair and trimmed his beard as he got older?

Really nice signs for the building!

Another great job, Lee.  CCR is one of my all time favorite groups.  It looks like a nice day weather-wise; otherwise, "Who'll Stop the Rain"?  The mountain stream might also be an offshoot of the "Green River", which the brewery workers could see by "Looking out my back door".

 

Jim

Beautiful scene, Lee!

 

Cesar

 

I think the water next to the brewery may be the wrong color.

Dan

Lee, this is removable, isn't it, or is just the lake an access hatch?

 

As usual, very well done, and your backstories are wonderful. You offer a pleasant guide to creativity for layout building and scenery. Thanks for your posts.

 

So, it would appear that J.C.F. is not seeing the "Tombstone Shadow".

 

wb47,I don't recall a beard, the hair is a little shorter and he is still active.

The lake is an access hatch, yes, and removable.  My original concept for this end of the layout was multiple hatch covers that would create different scenes/things to built, since with completion of this end of the layout I have run out of new space on which to build.  

 

I have three hatch covers:

1. the lake alone: I've posted photos before of it.  It makes for a beautiful, quiet scene, quite pretty I think.
2.  a flat green field of grass that can be a soccer field or a car concours event, etc.  Posted pictures of a concours sometime back, too.
3. my "secret rocket base" which of course is anything but secret, with the missle that comes out of the silo, and radars that swivel and turn, etc.  I work on this from time to time. Lots of fun in a 1950s, seven-year old kid kind of way.

So, yes, the brewery is removable: the whole semi-circular "pallet"(chunk of land it sits on) comes off as one piece and I store it under the layout. 

 

Bottom, line: I love making nice buildings and having them and all the stuff that goes with them (parked cars, trucks at loading ramps, etc.) on the layout but I have run out of room.  So this brewery is the first of several that will form a small mountain town, each built on a pallet that I can put down over the mountain lake, or the grass-covered hatch cover for that matter, and together making a small town that will come and go on my layout at times, as I choose.  For obvious reasons I think I have to call this small mountain community Brigadoon. 

 

 

My kind of town Lee. Nice work

Really great work Lee. Thanks for sharing.

Lee,

That really looks great. The style of the building and the details are done very well.

 

Alan Graziano

Lee,

I am sure San Beattadaise has seen Good Time Bad Times, seems now this is good times.  Nice work!

The tag line could have been "Born on the Bayou", but, that would entail re-scenicin' the lake area.

Great job Lee

 

Your creativity and dedication to detail are fantastic!

 

Dave

Last night, I was Looking Out My Back Door and saw Susie Q Down on the Corner looking at the Bad Moon Rising.   The Green River was running high, Who’ll Stop the Rain, and Up Around The Bend, A Travelin’ Band picked up a Sweet Hitch-Hiker that caused a Commotion.  Proud Mary had a Bootleg copy and called The Penthouse Pauper about the Graveyard Train.  Lodi looked like a Tombstone Shadow yelling, “Good Golly Miss Molly stop that Cross-Tie Walkin’. The Midnight Special is due , hey Tonight!”.

She yelled back, “Someday  Never Comes”.  Lookin’ for a Reason for Tearin’ Up the Country going Door to Door,  she had a Sinister Purpose.  That,  I Heard it Through the Grapevine.

 

A Fortunate Son needs to Keep on Chooglin’.

 

 Great Job!  love the CCR Reference!

 

 

Larry

Impressive.  great job
Ron

Fantastic job, as usual.

Now you just need to have a revival at the brewery, Lee!

Hello Lee,

 

Hope you don't mind me resurrecting your thread here, but I really like how you customized your factory!  I know you've done a bit of this on your other WS Built-ups, and was wondering what you use to loosen and move the various and sundry items around (like crates, etc.)...a CA release agent?

 

Again great touches on the brewery and love the theme

Thanks,

Robert