Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 168 years old on Saturday, and is celebrating with $1.68 Jack Daniels shots, free adobo, and a presentation on the restaurant's (often outlaw) 168-year history.

We’ve noted that the Financial District’s Tadich Grill is San Francisco's oldest restaurant, and that’s true. But Tadich Grill has had three different names, has moved around to three different places, and was originally just a tent that served as a coffee stand. Meanwhile, down Bayshore Boulevard about 1,000 feet from the San Francisco/Brisbane border, the 7 Mile House has been operating at the very same location, with the very same name, for the last 168 years.

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Now a family-run Filipino-American restaurant and sports bar, 7 Mile House will be celebrating that 168th anniversary all day and night this Saturday, with free adobo and rice bowls for the first 200 guests, a 10:30am history talk about 7 Mile House with complimentary coffee and mimosas, and $1.68 shots of Jack Daniels all day.

“The price goes up by a cent every year,” 7 Mile House owner Vanessa Garcia tells SFist. (Limit two per person, dine-in only, because you don’t want to end up in the emergency room.)

There’s plenty of 7 Mile House history to go over Saturday, much of it involving illegal activity.  But a brand new feature makes his 168th anniversary celebration pretty dog-gone unique.

“What I’m really excited about this year is the launch of our dedicated dog menu. We have a separate dog menu for dogs now,” Garcia says. “I believe we are the only restaurant with a full independent dog menu.”

On Saturday, dogs eat free! 7 Mile House is also now serving dog beer and wine (no alcohol, it’s watermelon-infused water or coconut water and vitamin C), Ben & Jerry’s dog ice cream (an actual product), dog cigars (they’re jerky), cakes for dogs, VIP cards where a dog’s fifth meal is free, and a 3-6 pm Yappy Hour free peanut butter biscuit (simultaneous to a human Happy Hour where drinks and appetizers are $7).

When 7 Mile House was established in 1858, there was also a 1-, 2-, and 3-Mile house along the same road into town, each signifying the distance to the city’s northern end.

“Mile Houses were stagecoach stops back in the 1850s when the Gold Rush was happening,” Garcia explains. “People needed a way to stop while traveling from San Francisco to San Jose. They were at almost every mile from San Francisco to San Jose, a mile house that served as a rest stop both for people and their horses. They were also restaurants, hotels, wheel exchange stops, Pony Express routes, and even brothels.

“7 Mile House was all of the above, and we are the last original mile house standing in the original location,” she says. (Millbrae's 16 Mile House is still in business, though it has moved from its original location.)

And there has been plenty of illegal activity at 7 Mile House over the last 168 years. “There was one owner who had an HUI — horseback riding under the influence,” according to Garcia.

“One of the first owners, Egidio Micheli, was caught transporting whiskey during Prohibition, and he was also running a card house in the back of 7 Mile House illegally,” she adds.

Sunday marks the 167th anniversary of the 7 Mile House bar and restaurant, and they’ll be marking the occasion with $1.67 whiskey shots, free adobo, and a historical presentation of 7 Mile House’s (often criminal) 167-year history.

We’ve noted that Tadich Grill is San Francisco's oldest restaurant, which is certainly true. But Tadich Grill has had three different names, and has been located at three different places (and was originally just a tent that served as a coffee stand). Meanwhile, just about 1,000 feet from the San Francisco border, Brisbane’s 7 Mile House has been operating at the very same location, with the very same name, for the last 167 years.  

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Now a family-run Filipino-American restaurant and sports bar, 7 Mile House is celebrating its 167th anniversary this Sunday with a full-day blowout of food, booze, and fun. It all starts a 10:30 am history lesson on those 167 years from current owner Vanessa Garcia. “We bribe people by giving them free mimosas and coffee,” Garcia says of the Sunday morning history class.

They’ll also bribe the first 200 people there with free to-go adobo and rice bowls, and $1.67 Jack Daniels shots all day. “The price goes up by a cent every year,” Garcia tells SFist. (Limit two per person, dine-in only). There’s also a $7 Happy Hour from 3 pm-6 pm, and live music from Annie's Alibi at 4 pm.

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The name 7 Mile House was no accident when it was established as a restaurant back in 1858. “There were mile houses from San Francisco to San Jose. Mile Zero was in Portsmouth Square in Chinatown,” Garcia explains. “In a carriage or on horseback, it would typically take you nine hours to get from San Francisco to San Jose. You were riding a horse or horses. You had to feed the horse, let them rest, let them have a drink of water. The same with humans.”

She adds that these mile houses of the time “were restaurants, bars, brothels, or pony express stops. 7 Mile House was all of the above.”

And many of the previous 7 Mile House owners and patrons were outlaws. “There was one owner who had an HUI — horseback riding under the influence,” Garcia says. That was Lenny Stooler, who also added claw machines at the 7 Mile House, which were a popular form of gambling in the Gold Rush era. “Figurines in the machine were assigned a dollar amount, so if you put your money in, it represented an amount of money, and you would claim the money at the bar," Garcia explains. What Lenny Stooler did was the figurine with the most value, he had chained it down to the ground.”

“We had owners who transported whiskey during Prohibition,” she adds. “Agents found them transporting a 200-gallon whiskey still and 220 gallons of alcohol.”

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In the 1980s, the restaurant was home to the office of illegal gambling kingpin Ron “Cigar” Sacco.  “7 Mile House hosted the largest gambling circuit west of the Mississippi under Ron ‘Cigar’ Sacco, who earned a million dollars a month.” Garcia tells us. “Under our former owner Ron Flynn, we actually got raided by the FBI twice. They confiscated $150,000 cash in our very old safe. We still have that safe in our office.”

Though these days, Garcia is married to a Brisbane police officer. “He keeps me from doing anything illegal!” she laughs.

7-Mile House has their anniversary party every year, but next year’s 168th anniversary will be even bigger — literally.

“We’re going to be expanding next door,” Garcia explains, saying they will take over the location of a shuttered adjacent business. “Our plans are to expand there and have an outdoor park-like facility where we can cater to more of our dog-loving family.”

7 Mile House adds in an announcement, “The new outdoor area will allow the restaurant to host bigger dog ‘pawties,’ off-leash days, and provide an enhanced experience for the community. This move is a testament to 7 Mile House’s ongoing commitment to serving both its human and four-legged guests in new and exciting ways.”

The 7 Mile House 167th anniversary is Sunday, February 2, 10:30 am - 9 pm at 2800 Bayshore Boulevard (at Geneva Avenue)

Related: 7 Mile House Celebrates Its 165th Anniversary On Saturday [SFist]

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Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 165 years old on Saturday, and is celebrating with $1.65 Jack Daniels shots, free adobo, and the Kindle release of the book detailing the Gold Rush-era restaurant's (often outlaw) 165-year history.

You might know the Geneva Avenue at Bayshore Boulevard restaurant and sports bar 7 Mile House for its annual Ube Bake-Off, its seven-decker 7 Mile Burger, or its inclusion in the Chronicle’s Top Filipino Restaurants in the Bay Area list two months ago. You might not know that the place has been operating at the same SF-Brisbane location for 165 years — making it not quite the oldest but among the very oldest drinking establishments on this Peninsula — and will celebrate that 165th anniversary Saturday, February 4, with a all day celebration of history, food, and $1.65 Jack Daniels shots.

Yes, $1.65 Jack Daniels shots (though as seen above, some restrictions apply, to make sure you don't end up in the emergency room). But the all-day deals galore also include free adobe bowls at 11:30 a.m., and 11 a.m. free coffee and mimosas for those who come to hear owner Vanessa Garcia discuss the restaurant’s 165-year history. Garcia wrote the book on the place (literally) in 2018’s See You at the 7: Stories from the Last Original Bay Area Mile House, which will also be released as a Kindle e-book on Saturday.

Additionally, on Saturday 7 Mile House is also launching a self-guided QR code history tour within the restaurant.

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And the history of the place is riddled with outlaw tales. “There was one owner during Prohibition who got caught transporting whiskey,” Garcia said in a Hoodline interview last year. She adds that another prior owner "was the first one who got an HUI — Horseback riding Under the Influence."

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“There was another owner who used to have illegal slot machines inside 7 Mile House,” she added. “The owner’s son before me was actually featured on 20/20 in the ‘90s for housing the largest sports gambling syndicate west of the Mississippi. It was held here at 7 Mile House.”

When 7 Mile House was established in 1858, there was also a 1-, 2-, and 3-Mile house along the same road into town, each signifying the distance to the city’s northern end. “Mile houses were established during the 1850s, during the Gold Rush,” Garcia told Hoodline. “They served as stagecoach stops, pony express routes. They were bars, hotels, and even brothels.”

Of the 7 Mile House’s previous owners, dating back since 1858, Garcia joked, “Each owner did something illegal. Except for me!”

7 Mile House’s 165th anniversary party is Saturday, February 4, at 11:30 a.m., at 2800 Bayshore Blvd., Brisbane, 415-467-2343.

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The "Prop House" in Brisbane, a warehouse that's full of movie props used in TV shows and movies that were shot in the Bay Area, is having its first ever major sale this weekend. It's a clearance sale as the warehouse is downsizing, following an 80% rent hike.

The sale runs daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and it there will be another "wave" of the sale next weekend as well, as owner Andrew Lewis explains to NBC Bay Area. The 15,000-square-foot warehouse has props used in San Andreas, Zodiac, Milk, Winchester, The OA, Ballers, The Matrix Reloaded, Big Sur, Contagion, Sorry to Bother You, and many more.

The Craigslist ad for the sale is pretty funny, listing the many various random items that are part of the sale — and it's unclear whether they're all labeled with what show or movie they appeared in, or if you just have to ask Lewis when you're there. "Small card catalogue, hat and coat racks, hall trees, filing cabinets, bar stools, thrones, directors chairs, lamps/lighting... dental chair and light, Healthometers, optometry equipment, wheelchairs, crutches, medical supplies, equipment, medical costumes, gurneys, prosthetics, coffin/casket, lab glass, pharmacy/apothecary items..."

From the photos there are also a whole lot of vintage phones, TVs, and radios.

Lewis says he's relocating a part of the collection to an 800-square-foot office space nearby, and winnowing down how many items he keeps in each category.

You can own a piece of Bay Area movie history! And it looks like the operation is functioning like a chaotic flea market, with stuff selling for just a few bucks in some cases.

The sale happens through Sunday, and then May 31 through June 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 80 Industrial Way, Brisbane.

When 57-year-old Shelly Titchener was reported missing in February her husband, Paul Titchener, invited KRON4 to interview him at their home. The two had gone through their share of marital troubles, filing once for divorce but never finalizing it. Paul moved away, then back into the family's garage to save funds for their two boys' education. Asked what he might do if Shelly never came home, he said, "I lost both my parents, and that's a very difficult thing, and so I've gone through with them and shared with them how that feels and what to do to deal with it."

In hindsight, his words are telling. After a dismembered torso was discovered near the Dumbarton Pier and Paul was named a person of interest in the case, he jumped off the Bay Bridge to his death.

In March the torso was identified as having belonged to Shelly according to CBS 5, and Paul was named a suspect in her murder. Finally this week Brisbane police have put speculation to rest, reporting that they believe Paul acted alone in killing his wife and unspooling their theory of a murder-suicide to ABC7.

The police suspect the murder was not premeditated — a telephone conversation indicates Paul was going to bring Shelly a cell phone charger. What happened next may never be known, but it appears that Paul's death was suicide "either out of remorse or the belief that he would be identified as the killer." Police further explained to the news channel that, "This opinion is based on Paul drafting a will in the early morning hours of the 13th, the money transferred to the son's accounts." In fact, it's a bit more complicated: Paul appears to have first deposited money with his sons, then changed his mind, planning to dispose of Shelly's body and report her missing. Paul then took the funds back that he had transferred to his sons. But then he was named a person of interest, the torso was found, and he reverted to his original plan, or so police believe.

The Titchener's were married for 24 years. Police tell the Mercury News that "we are sensitive to the effect this case has had on remaining family members. As such, we will not be commenting any further about this case.”

Negotiating tactic, empty threat, or real plan, the idea floated last week that San Francisco might annex our southern neighbor city of Brisbane is now moot (if it ever wasn't).

#Brisbannex, as surely everyone (and not just me) was calling the idea, was provocative. It got the people going: Brisbane Mayor Cliff Lentz called it “unthinkable” bullying according to the San Jose Mercury News. But now that's off the table, as the Chronicle implies a private meeting between Peskin and Brisbane Mayor Cliff Lentz sorted some things out. “We had a nice visit," the Chron quotes Supervisor Aaron Peskin who is maybe quoting the Godfather. "They’ve heard us,” he said, seeming to indicate Lentz was ready to push for housing his city has so far stalled on plotting out.

If Brisbane wouldn't build housing, the suggestion appeared to be, San Francisco would annex it and build the damn housing. "SF is happy to build housing on Brisbane Baylands — 684 acres of vacant land," Kim put it on Twitter. Brisbane, a municipality of just 4,000 residents, has been criticized for its Baylands plan, which would develop 8 million square feet of commercial space without any accompanying housing. As it stands, the plan would create an unfair burden for other cities in the region, chiefly San Francisco, where perhaps you've noticed there's already no housing.

Brisbane's Planning Commission voted to recommend that their City Council reject housing on the Baylands site, purchased for development more than 10 years ago by Universal Paragon Corp. Some online commenters (probably from Brisbane) have pointed out that the Baylands site contains toxic waste — True! They'll have to clean it up for commercial development anyway, so that doesn't rule out housing. So, to put Brisbane's feet to the coals, Kim and her fellow progressive Supervisors David Campos and Aaron Peskin proposed a resolution "urging Brisbane to adopt a responsible Land Use Plan for this area that will include needed workforce housing."

Before meeting with Peskin privately, Mayor Lentz spoke publicly in front of the Board of Supervisors, running out his three minutes of allotted time well before he finished reading a long letter to the Board. While it wasn't clear if the Board members planned to let him continue or not, it sounds like Scott Wiener insisted on it. “We’re talking about conquering a neighboring town,” Wiener said according to the Chron. “We can let him finish his letter.”

Per the Merc, Wiener called annexation as proposed by Kim, his current rival for a state senate seat, "bizzare." His hope, he said, was that "we can have an intelligent regional discussion about how we can work together to address our housing crisis, rather than aggressively threaten to take over our neighbor.” Aaron Peskin appears to have felt differently about the maneuver. "I guess we got their attention, huh?” the Chron quotes him as bragging.

Previously: Brisbane Could Become A Part Of San Francisco Under New Resolution

San Francisco could use a little more room, couldn't it? The progressive supervisor triumvirate of Jane Kim, Aaron Peskin, and David Campos will present a resolution today that could eventually give it some, the Chronicle reports, exploring a controversial plan to annex our city's southern neighbor, Brisbane, to make it a part of SF.

While that municipality (population 4,000) prepares to build a massive commercial development called the Brisbane Baylands, it appears unwilling to concurrently introduce new housing units, angering supervisors like Jane Kim, who claimed last week that Brisbane sought commercial benefits while foregoing its housing responsibilities. Those would instead fall to San Francisco.

Baylands is a plot of more than 680 acres next to Highway 101. In August, the Brisbane Planning Commission recommended “that no housing be allowed on this site,” and Brisbane's Mayor Cliff Lentz is quoted as having said "There’s all this housing on the SF side... We’ll provide the commercial — SF will provide the housing.” Lentz has since clarified that he was voicing not his own opinion but echoing a common sentiment from constituents. Still, a city document on the plan says that #8220;There will be ample housing in the new developments planned across the border in San Francisco for those working in the Baylands who wish to live nearby.”

Last week, Lentz called Jane Kim's suggestion that SF could annex his city "ridiculous," adding that "Jane Kim obviously doesn’t know anything about Brisbane’s planning process.” Meanwhile, San Francisco advocates have been encouraging Brisbane to adopt a mixed-use plan instead of a purely commercial one, and Brisbane Community Development Director John Swiecki tells Curbed SF that some housing could be provided for. "It's a six to eight month process," he said. "We could end up with any number of units. It doesn't have to be the Doomsday Option of zero."

In order to make a reality of Brannex, as many people and certainly not just one SFist editor are referring to the idea, "landowners owning 50 percent or more of the assessed value of the land within the territory," would need to approve it. And this might be attractive to landowners who believe a San Francisco address will mean an automatic bump in value. (Brisbane is, in case you didn't know, right on SF's border, south of Visitiacion Valley, north of South San Francisco.)

Last week, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President Jim Lazarus suggested one reason why Brisbane might be reluctant to create new housing. “Brisbane’s concern is political," he said per the Chronicle. "They don’t want 4,000 new voting residents.” And as San Mateo County Supervisor Adrienne Tissier, whose district includes Brisbane put it, “It’s easy to take all the revenue and not take any responsibility for the people.”

While Supervisor Peskin calls the idea of "exploring annexing Brisbane... provocative," he doesn't seem to consider the proposition unprovoked. "The statements of the elected officials in Brisbane are provocative, too," says Peskin. "What comes around, goes around.”

In the end, this may just be an empty threat to make them build more housing. But we'll see.

Related: Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure

48-year-old Khalil Jaser was arrested for last summer in Brisbane, California for driving under the influence. Then, like a shunned lover, he proceeded to call his arresting officer a total of 152 times, leaving 54 message laden with death threats over the course of three weeks in September. Along with the barrage of voicemails, the self-proclaimed Palestinian Christian apparently took his rant online, tweeting death threats at the officer in between anti-Semitic slurs, conspiracy theories and requests to get coffee with Mel Gibson.

Jaser's arrest took place the day before that tweet on July 28th of last year when Jaser was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI in Brisbane, a town that is little more than a stretch of Highway 101. Although the Mel Gibson account is a joke, the @khaliljaser account matches the suspect's name and photo. The next day, Jaser started tweeting for the officer to "come clean" about the incident, which he may have felt was a government plot to keep him down:

It appears that the Brisbane P.D. was not paying attention to Jaser's tweets (nor was Mel Gibson, for that matter), so the suspect picked up the phone and began leaving cryptic voicemails at the officer's desk. According to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, the officer received seven voicemails in a five-day period at the beginning of September, allegedly saying he “better not go to work,” and “Boom, you’re dead motherfucker.” When the officer finally returned the calls to ask what was meant by those comments, Jaser reportedly told the officer he knew what they meant and began his three-week volley of voicemails.

Jaser posted bail on November 29th and was scheduled to begin his jury trial earlier this week on charges of harassment and resisting arrest, but he was apparently too busy setting up a coffee meeting with Mr. Braveheart himself to make it to court.

The Examiner also emailed Jaser (at an address he tweeted soliciting stories from other people "stuck with fake charges by the government"), but the suspect only responded to ask what the inquiry was about. In the time between posting bail and missing his court date, Jaser has did take a moment to address his arresting officer again in December:

That was right before he went back to saying incredibly disgusting things about Jewish people and then brushing off his anti-Semitism:

There's currently a $150,000 warrant out for Jaser's arrest, but he probably already knows that since he's got the government all figured out:

This glorious shot comes to you from noted photographer exxonvaldez. He captures "[r]unway 1 departures from San Francisco International Airport between 10:22pm and 11:38pm on June 27, 2009, as seen from Brisbane Marina."

This well-crafted image also brings to mind that scene in , when Ouisa Kittredge, blathering on about her Kandinsky painting, chirps, "Control. Chaos... Control. You like, you like?"

We do. Very much so.

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