Love in the Time of Corona
Donation protected
Frank, Karl, and I miss you 1642 community, feels like it’s been ages! We trust you are all healthy and in good spirits.
I write as I sign the last staff paychecks, f**k! The overhead is starting to feel overwhelming while that little bar sits quietly alone awaiting your return. It’s with reluctance that I reach out for help, as I know many of you are in the same damn boat. However, I want to do everything in my power to assist the employees (and their families) and musicians of 1642 as we all found ourselves abruptly unemployed on Sunday, March 15.
As you all know, we are a small ma, no pop business, serving the HiFi community for 10 years. When we opened the door on the 1st of March, 2010, Temple was a long forgotten street with the exception our wonderful neighbors Tribal and Tamales Albertos. Now I look back and marvel at how so many young musicians have grown with us and beyond over the years, how so many couples have met within those four walls and stayed together for the long haul, all the friendships created, watching the children of staff grow from little ones to full sized people, and how so many of our wonderful patrons have realized their career goals. Life is now on hold, however our basic needs are not while debt grows with each passing day.
Here’s what I’m asking of you. If a good number of people could give 10-15 bucks that could be of tremendous help right now. Proceeds will go to our staff (nothing to management, me!), I hope to give a couple of bucks to our resident musicians, and maybe a little toward paying some of the general overhead so that restoring jobs is a little more possible once we are back to normal operation.
For your generous support we will honor you on a wall somewhere at the bar commemorating this time in history and your generous support. We will also reserved a candle lit table for you and your tinder date (subject to availability), maybe Karl will hug you (if that’s ever deemed socially acceptable again) and a bowl of pretzels and a 28 once bottle of fresh sparkling Saratoga water will await your arrival.
In the meantime, enjoy the open roads of Los Angeles as you make your essential trips, reflect on the type of world you want to live in, pet the cat, and watch a whole lot of shitty tv.
The image for this ad comes from the bar sketchbook by the way. Thank you to whoever you are.
Until we meet again!
I write as I sign the last staff paychecks, f**k! The overhead is starting to feel overwhelming while that little bar sits quietly alone awaiting your return. It’s with reluctance that I reach out for help, as I know many of you are in the same damn boat. However, I want to do everything in my power to assist the employees (and their families) and musicians of 1642 as we all found ourselves abruptly unemployed on Sunday, March 15.
As you all know, we are a small ma, no pop business, serving the HiFi community for 10 years. When we opened the door on the 1st of March, 2010, Temple was a long forgotten street with the exception our wonderful neighbors Tribal and Tamales Albertos. Now I look back and marvel at how so many young musicians have grown with us and beyond over the years, how so many couples have met within those four walls and stayed together for the long haul, all the friendships created, watching the children of staff grow from little ones to full sized people, and how so many of our wonderful patrons have realized their career goals. Life is now on hold, however our basic needs are not while debt grows with each passing day.
Here’s what I’m asking of you. If a good number of people could give 10-15 bucks that could be of tremendous help right now. Proceeds will go to our staff (nothing to management, me!), I hope to give a couple of bucks to our resident musicians, and maybe a little toward paying some of the general overhead so that restoring jobs is a little more possible once we are back to normal operation.
For your generous support we will honor you on a wall somewhere at the bar commemorating this time in history and your generous support. We will also reserved a candle lit table for you and your tinder date (subject to availability), maybe Karl will hug you (if that’s ever deemed socially acceptable again) and a bowl of pretzels and a 28 once bottle of fresh sparkling Saratoga water will await your arrival.
In the meantime, enjoy the open roads of Los Angeles as you make your essential trips, reflect on the type of world you want to live in, pet the cat, and watch a whole lot of shitty tv.
The image for this ad comes from the bar sketchbook by the way. Thank you to whoever you are.
Until we meet again!
Organizer
Elizabeth Fischbach
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA