Culture
To Save a Bar, Sometimes You Must Pick It Up and Move It Down the Street
Rather than let a pub fall to developers, a community transplanted the whole thing.
It looks like the world's strangest heist: People convene at dawn around a creaky old bar, slowly pick it up, then lug it down the street like a bunch of ants carrying an apple. But this was actually the method used to relocate Oakland, California's Kingfish Pub, a former bait shop from the 1920s or '30s now famed for PBR tallboys and shuffleboard.