Jul 18, 2023
In Part 3, we meet Mini Bar's Operations Manager, Erin Kehoe. Erin is a sixth-generation San Franciscan. Her uncle researched family history, which was complicated by the fact that her grandma was orphaned. When you consider time in the state of California, her family history goes back here to when it was part...
Jul 13, 2023
We open Part 2 with a discussion on the nature of neighborhood bars. An opportunity arose for John when he left the corporate world. His then-wife, Sommer Peterson, reminded him of his idea to open a bar when she also left the 9 to 5. Sommer researched spots in the general area of Divisadero and stood in lines at City...
Jul 11, 2023
Welcome to the final episode of
Season 5! We saved a special one for last for a good
reason.
Mini Bar is, of course, where we're
having our first art show (Hungry Ghosts) in more than three years.
But it's also a neighborhood bar, and neighborhood bars are such a
great symbol of the beating heart of San Francisco.
Our...
Jul 5, 2023
In Part 3, we pick up where we
left off in Part 2, with Mike's story of arriving at Bluxome Street
early in the morning on Dec. 4, 2022. His San Francisco legacy
business, Babylon Burning, was on fire.
Mike recounts the SFFD firefighters
taking care when breaking into the 63
Bluxome art gallery doors that led to...