Frankenstein would pause with peaceful calm subtleness when he sees a lively crowd sipping a cafe' and watching a live performance or listening to poetry into the wee hours of the morning once again.
Female
31 years old
Pasadena, California
United States
espresso, foam, honey in plastic bears, ghetto blasters, cracklin firestarters, art for sale, bathrooms to right and stock room to the left, tattered tomes, pianos that are never used and jukeboxes that no longer play.
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About me: My name is Joell and I started this myspace for the Ebar. But this is not about me, this is about an experience. Everyones experience with the Espresso bar. Please feel free to leave memories, updates that you know of or just say hello. Spreading the word and gaining support may just bring this faded memory back into the light.
I was a coffee bar. I was thee coffee bar in Pasadena when Old Town was a ghosttown. But the cool kids, artists, musicians and the like would brave the hollow streets, stoop bums and dodge the train to get to my little alley. I had it all. And I want it back. 34 S. Raymond is vacant and I am asking all of you to help in bringing me back. it will take all of you to help in accomplishing that.
Please go to The Espresso Bar for past, present and future information.
This website is a fanbased plea to support local history, music and art on behalf of The E-bar.
With that said:
"Long before Starbucks sprouted up in all the prime real estate, the Espresso Bar was the only cappuccino in town. One could drive the length and breadth of Southern California and find only a handful of demitasses. The market for exotic coffees was tiny then and few Angelenos had yet learned the difference between a latte and a cappuccino. "By the way, shouldn't there be an 'x' in the 'espresso", and isn't a buck twenty-five an awful lot for such a tiny cup of coffee?""
"Tucked away in an alley behind Raymond Avenue from the 1970s through the mid 1990s, the E-Bar served coffee aficionados willing to make the trek into the decidedly neglected Old Pasadena. A visit to the bar in the early days was like a visit to a 1920's-era speakeasy. There was no signage announcing its presence, just the surprise of three bright red doors at the end of a dark back alley near the railroad tracks. The visit likely involved careful steps around the snoozing winos or a complicated give and take with Larry, down but not out- "I made Michael Jackson, man. All them. Prince? Him too." -who supported himself by plundering donated castoffs from behind the Salvation Army and re-selling the goods to anyone too polite to say no.
The coffee, however, was never the Bar's prime mover. Coffee paid the rent, sort of, but more importantly, it inspired the room's rapid-fire cafe culture. The heavenly ambiance of steaming coffee, clattering plates, the crackling fireplace, the rhythmic roar of the Chicago bound train played only a supporting role to the sounds of percussive conversation out on the tables, alive with energy and passion.
Despite the many accoutrements the E-Bar acquired in the '70s, '80s and '90s - its scarred tables and chairs, it's piano, it's fifties juke-box, the artwork by locally recognized artists - the Espresso Bar's staff and ownership sought to maintain, "a neutral or void space," in the words of one of it's former owners. "The first time I saw the room, " says Espresso Bar founder Margaret Schermerhorn, "I was filled with the strange feeling I had entered a 'stream of time' that spoke of past, present and future. "The arched alcove, the sweeping cone over the curved fire-place, the old wood floor, and the mysterious three doors, side-by-side seemed to provide a magical link back in time. As it happened, much of the Bar's clientele shopped the neighborhood's many thrift stores and often arrived dressed in vintage clothing of the 1920s, '30s, '40s, '50s and '60s, contributing to the Bar's strange sense of timelessness. The Bar nurtured a sense of placelessness, as well. Customers from around the world insisted that "this place is just like the old place I go to at home in Buenos Aires, Caracas, Bombay, Lisbon, Melbourne..."
Although the building dates back to the 1890s, the Espresso Bar's connection to Pasadena's past was strongest to these five decades (1920s- '60s), which was reflected in the music on the jukebox. The Espresso Bar won many hearts for the selections on its 1956 AMI Juke Box, which was named Best Juke Box in LA several times. There was nothing among Margaret's original 45s that was newer than the early 60s. "When I was putting the place together," say Schermerhorn, "I felt responsible to continue the sense of 'timewarp' that permeated the atmosphere, it seemed to be the original 'Hernando's Hideaway'!
I was dumbfounded when an older upstairs tenant told me that young Rudolph Valentino had rented that very room to give 'dancing lessons' to the newly arrived east-coast ladies residing at the Hotel Green who were waiting for their divorces to finalize," recalls Margaret. Not long after the opening, she learned that the space once housed the west coast's first Horticultural Society - perhaps a clue to the genesis of the wonderful Batchelder fountain that faced the Bar's alley entrance, a relic from Pasadena's rich Arts & Crafts heritage."
*I would like to credit the author of this piece so if anyone knows, or you are the writer, please let me know!*
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Who I'd like to meet: My past, present and future. All in the same room, all at the same time.
Oh...and I would like for the skanky ho's to go elsewhere. This site is for E-Bar supporters and enthusiasts.
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