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Old Town business owners Allan Veto
and Larry Baker have plans, too. Veto
owns Bob’s Club, the oldest structure in
Old Town, built in 1876. Baker has owned
Sign Center, a sign shop, across the street
for 32 years, as well as a vacant building
nearby.
They have partnered to open a bar
in Baker’s unused building by mid-2020.
While Bob’s Club is a neighborhood bar,
the second site will be more upscale,
with microbrews, craft cocktails and
live music.
Meanwhile, home brewer and Elk
Grove native Brandon Smith and his part-
ners have been waiting for construction to
begin inside an empty industrial structure
that will house Hungry Pecker Brewery on
the eastern part of Old Town. The grand
opening is anticipated by the end of the
year. With four other breweries in the
city, “Elk Grove could become the per-
fect destination for a day of beer tasting,”
Smith says.
Current dining and drinking options
include Brick House Restaurant & Lounge
(Italian-American cuisine), Boulevard Bis-
tro (American food), Lola’s Lounge (Latin
cuisine) and Happy Garden (Chinese cui-
sine). The Rat Pack-themed Babe’s Lounge
specializes in classic cocktails, and Pinot’s
Palette is a sip-and-paint franchise.
Dennis Buscher of the Elk Grove His-
torical Society counts 80 structures “of
historical significance” on the main drag
and adjacent streets. Fifty-one of them
are featured in the “Old Town Elk Grove
Walking Tour” pamphlet by Elk Grove
historian Elizabeth Pinkerton, available
at Old Town Elk Grove Foundation (www.
oldtownelkgrove.com). It explains the
buildings’ uses over the decades and
what businesses occupy them now. For
instance, the former Masonic Temple,
built in 1893, now houses a half-dozen
small businesses, including a hair salon
and spa, a property-management firm
and law office.
“Strolling down Main Street is like
taking a trip into the past,” says Pinker-
ton, author of the two-volume south
Sacramento County-focused “History
Happened Here.” “You can envision what
it was like in the late 1800s and early
1900s.” n
Allen Pierleoni is a freelance writer in Sac-
ramento. He worked for The Sacramento
Bee as a writer and editor in the features
department for 30 years.
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