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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.