Since we’re showing off the new place this weekend, here’s some information about the people and materials that are in effect here. As you’ll see, we did our best to reclaim and reuse existing materials where we could.

This building, known as the Home Supply Co. building, was built in 1929 as a grocery market. It housed four independent vendors: a bakery, a butcher shop, a florist, and a produce seller. Later the building housed the North Park Meat Co., a meatcutter/butcher.

The renovation was put together by our architect, Jared Bradley (his day job is at M.W. Steele) and general contractor, Louie Chau. Many of our regular patrons and team members participated in the design work as well.

Forest Dickey of Varian Designs built both bars, the harvest tables in the back room, and the center workbench. They are made principally of birch reclaimed from a very old barn in Indiana.

Jeremy Kaplan and Dan Herbst made our tabletops. The wood is Douglas fir, reclaimed from floor joists removed from demolished buildings at 1865 National Avenue in San Diego. Jeremy and Dan also made our wood serving slabs, from reclaimed or naturally felled wood, including red gum eucalyptus, blue gum eucalyptus, sweet gum eucalyptus, olive, tangerine, Italian cypress, ash, cottonwood and Australian blackwood.

Our black dining room chairs are late of a Pei Wei in Orange County.

The overhead acoustic panels are from a design by Greg Koch of Stone Brewing, who prior to entering the brewing industry was a sound engineer in Los Angeles. They were built and installed by George Kimsjo, Joe Schneider, and AJ Lenahan. George and Joe also built the mobile islands we use in the bar area. AJ built and installed pretty much everything else we’ve added after construction.

Our wine manager Bobby and our server Ethan did most of the building of the dining room booths. The benches are upholstered with factory-original upholstery for 60’s and 70’s models of the Chevy Caprice. We bought the upholstery from House of Naugahyde on 30th Street.

Our exterior mural was painted by North Park artist Acamonchi. The smaller paintings inside are by Harry the Hat, also of North Park.

The stunning handmade lanterns that hang over our bar are by Renee Utt of Starlite Lanterns. She made them for us when we first opened in 2005, and we brought them with us. Our front doors and front light fixture are reclaimed, we bought them at Architectural Salvage.

Our wine dispense system was designed by Lee Chase, who is also putting together our new cask system and our on-site brewery.

The building’s exterior signs were designed by Mary Beckert of Mousetrap Design and built by Tim Spann of Directional Graphics. The openable “garage door” style windows were the work of Dave Christensen of Advanced Garage Door Solutions.

I’m sure there are key people I’m forgetting, I’ll update this as I remember.