La Cachamba Wagon Bar has repurposed the city's defunct train workshop into a unique bar and event venue.
At Off the Wagon Bar and Grill, down the street from the tattoo parlor, Terry Grauwiler, a bartender, seemed irritated by the mayor's new focus.
But, again, the film's visceral appeal has much to do with period detail: neatly groomed engineers wearing suits and ties, even on the production floor or at the bar of Walker's Wagon Wheel in Mountain View; rows of women in smocks and hairnets assembling transistors.
Imagine if you had to smuggle all the booze to be consumed in your local bar next week in a wagon from the Mexican or Canadian border.
First stop might be Walker's Wagon Wheel, a bar in Mountain View, where the Valley's original chip engineers could be found in the 1960's.
Instead of the old "restaurant", this year's food entrepreneurs would more likely open something called a grill, bar, diner, shack, cerveceria, bodega, wagon, pit, tavern(a), stand, café, bistro, pub or refreshment room.
A scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs was escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon several times.
The bar had marble floors and wagon-wheel light fixtures and a white wall that separated drinkers at the bar from diners at the tables.
The police were to transport the bar's alcohol in patrol wagons.
As we made our way down the street, I could hear the pings of the coins thrown against the paddy wagon parked outside the bar.
