My favorite soju-slingin’ bar Amnesia has been redecorating, and it looks like they are going for a nautical theme. They are soliciting donations for items such as:
-Old Steamer Trunks (antique big leather and metal kind)
-Large docking rope
-Lamps, lanterns with nautical appeal
-Ship wheels
-portholes (round frames or windows)
-Chandeliers (send a picture first!)
-old, thin barn wood
-Any wooden barrels of any size
-wooden ship figure heads
-old model ships
-old ships in bottles
-taxidermy of the nautical variety… fish, sea birds, etc
-any other sort of old-timey nautical nonsense that seems appropriate for our cozy chamber.
This seems like a somewhat odd request from a place that’s across the street from a goddamned pirate store, but who am I to judge. Contact them amnesiasf (at) gmail.com if you’ve got the goods.
(via Mission Locatl)
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Man, it takes some balls for a for-profit business to solicit “donations.”
This has to be a joke, right?
For one thing they’re a for-profit business and secondly they’re across the street from 826 Valencia.
It has to be a temporary thing in conjunction with the plank sellers across the street.
Is it really that weird to give old junk to a business for them to use for decorating?
I mean, Mission Mission “donated” our best of the bay plaque to Benders (it’s hanging above the bar somewhere) Should we have asked for a tax-write off or something? It’s worth at least a free game of pool.
I can’t wait to see the bar when it’s all done! Sounds awesome.
I prefer my bars unthemed, and I like the Amnesia’s current state of dark red and slightly seedy. It’s our most Lynchian bar and I love it for that.
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