Today, the Homestead celebrates it’s fifth anniversary with a block party. Although the bar has been a Mission landmark since 1902, it’s been under Raub Shapiro’s ownership for the last five. And for everyone involved, there’s no better reason to celebrate. Well that, and they have a motto to live by.
“Drink locally, think globally,” says manager Deborah Welch. “We believe in taking care of your neighborhood.”
And the Homestead has been known to give. Some of the proceeds from today’s sales of T-shirts and other paraphernalia will go to IGOT, the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumotology, which is based out of the University of San Francisco. Amber Caldwell, the director of development, says the organization got its start in the back room of Homestead four years ago.
“We would meet there all the time,” says Caldwell. Now, every Thursday, her organization gets $1 for every drink sold at Homestead.
For all that, make sure to stop by Folsom and 19th Streets to support some good causes and get your party on. And don’t worry if you can’t get there til late, after 7 p.m., the party will move inside.
Here’s today’s musical line up:
