The State Street bar State street, Santa Barbara

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Situated in the city center of Santa Barbara, the State Street bar owes its name to the busy and full of life street where it is settled. The place evokes a cheap brasserie, frequented by all the social classes of the city.

We find there the inescapable counter, behind which succeed many different barmen (Kenny, Terry, Richard, Jake, and the most present : Frank), and several tables separated by folding screens made by crossed wooden amounts.

Among the regular customers of the bar, we can quote Warren Lockridge, Joe and Amy Perkins and naturally Mason Capwell, whom barmen are used to serve evenings after evenings. Mason feels moreover so in his ease there that he will even settle his office (on a simple table in the middle of the customers), after his dismissal of the district attorney office. And, in order to monopolize the use of the telephone, he will place a note saying "out of order" on the device, to make sure that nobody else than him can use it. Strangely, the owner of the place will let him do so.

Without real explanation, the State Street bar will be renamed the State Street bistro after a few months of appearance, without modifying the set at all. It will know its disappearance of the screen with the creation of Buzz's Place at the end of 1985.