Nice sunny day, it should be great out there, specially at these prices. Okay, they’ve left the bar intact, but because of covid, they’ve built an outside, which means you can take your grandma and auntie here without apologizing. Jack would have been shocked to see what they’ve done today. He worked this bar from 6am to 10am, Wednesdays thru Sundays.” “Jack was a legend, but he also was a barman. “He ended up becoming a mail carrier, Bird Rock area,” says this gent everybody calls The Grinch, as he brings someone a beer. I spend the last ten minutes reading a wall tribute signed by dozens of fans of Jack MacPherson. Whatever, for $10, this is totally filling, and with the combination of company, dive bar food prices, and history to match, spending it in the shrine to one of La Jolla’s great sixties moments gives me goose bumps. I’m drinking an IPA ($8), but should’ve gone for the PBR, less than half the price and a more cheery beeriness for the dogs and meatballs. They give enough flavor and heat to make them pretty luscious. And the hot dogs I sex up by squirting the packets of ketchup, mustard, and green pickle relish on top. I add a bag of chips ($2), and start in on these meatballs. I need to chow down quick, before everything gets cold. And Jim kind of waves that it’s not food he’s interested in, and with Trevor, drink’s out of the question. Me, I’m feeling kind of bad, but my hot dogs and meatballs arrive. He’s saying this to Trevor, who wants him out. But mostly, these guys were about celebrating. They specialized in tearing things apart, like barns, houses. See their sign up there? ‘Mac-Meda Destruction Company.’ And guess who they made their president? Albert. Him and Bob Rakestraw and all the other surfer kids. “He had seen Pearl Harbor happen when he was a little kid in Hawaii. “That pump house gang, Jack MacPherson was the leader,” says Jim. You fell asleep over your last one.”īut we start talking. While I’m waiting, an elderly gent comes in. He says he’s been working behind this bar seven years. “About as cheap as it gets around here,” says Trevor. I’ve definitely got the late-afternoon hollows, so I go for the meatballs, plus two hot dogs. That’s it.” The pretzel’s $4, pizza (8-inch) is $6, hot dogs are $3.50 each, two for $6, and meatballs in a cardboard bowl are only $2. “Meatballs, pretzels, pizzas,” says Trevor, “hot dogs, chips. Half the pleasure is the feast for the eyes.
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