vanessa garcia: hi there, welcome to 7 mile house. where you would like to sit, be outside or inside? vanessa: inside? okay, how many of you, four? all right, right here please. robert: the saga of the 7 mile house began 160 years ago, but for many the story begins with the restoration of the historic stage coach stop by the immigrant family that rescued an important bit of american and bay area history. the bar and restaurant was one of the so-called mile houses that marked the road each mile between san francisco and the territory to the south, a place on the dusty road to eat, drink, as well as other activities for those in a coach, as well as in wagons or on horseback. this was two years before the pony express had even started. but as culturally rich as the story is, many people either took the stops for granted or never really knew the history of the mile houses, or one of the last remaining ones, the 7 mile just outside san francisco in brisbane. in fact, the 7 mile house was also destined to be a forgotten footnote when, in 20