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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Lifelong customers astatine a Fresno barroom gathered for a last farewell arsenic the concern closed its doors for the past clip connected Sunday.
Regulars astatine Sequoia Brewing Company considered the gathering a "third place" and were devastated erstwhile the barroom announced connected societal media that Sunday nighttime would beryllium the business' past night. All 3 locations person present closed their doors for good.
At the Tower District determination successful Fresno, patrons similar the begetter and lad duo Thomas and Quentin accidental they whitethorn arsenic good person a mates of beers archetypal - earlier the doors close.
"I've been coming present since it was Butterfield's," Thomas said. "I spent a batch of years astatine Butterfield's earlier it became what it is now. Where it's going next, we don't know."
Quentin says helium remembers spending his 21st and his 30th birthdays astatine Sequoia Brewing Company. Quentin says it is the "heartbeat of the Tower District."
According to Quentin and Thomas, losing Sequoia Brewing Company is bittersweet - but the household has been successful Fresno for implicit 4 generations and they person seen the assemblage persevere clip and clip again.
"Things are going to change," Quentin said. "But alteration inspires thing much to come."
Patrons similar Felix accidental the assemblage volition persevere and it owes a batch to Sequoia Brewing Company. She says it is much than a bat oregon restaurant, it's the embodiment of a "pub."
"It is simply a nationalist house, that's wherever pub comes from," Felix said. "Everybody is welcome. Everybody is here, everybody successful the community."
Felix says breweries successful Fresno besides beryllium Sequoia Brewing Company. She says erstwhile the barroom was founded successful 1989 it acceptable an illustration and acceptable the modular for the breweries that came after.
"It's the eventual 3rd place," Felix said. "It was the archetypal 3rd place."
Patrons Debi and John went arsenic acold arsenic to accidental the Tower District's Sequoia Brewing Company was a "church with beer." The mates remembered having their rehearsal meal determination with household and friends arsenic good arsenic performing euphony there.
Debi says she cried erstwhile she archetypal heard Sequoia Brewing Company would beryllium closing for good. She and John accidental it was a spot for monthly, play and regular get-togethers for radical who came and went and abruptly became "family."
"This has been a day-to-day improvement of radical and stories, heartbreak, camaraderie, bully times and celebration," John said. "There are 3 to 4 plaques implicit the barroom commemorating radical who were regulars who passed early, excessively early."
Every patron agreed that they were fortunate to person had a accidental to marque memories and stock the abstraction astatine the Tower District's Sequoia Brewing Company.
Staff astatine the Tower District determination accidental they felt fortunate arsenic good to person been capable to assistance make a abstraction wherever everyone felt a consciousness of assemblage and belonging.
