Signed, sealed and delivered - the bar is ours!

December, 2007: Signed, sealed and delivered - the bar is ours!

A brief history of the bar. The brick and stone building was built in 1909 and held a grocery store and The Thomas restaurant until Nick Fagiani purchased the building and opened Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge & Liquor Store in 1945. It was a popular gathering place for blue collar workers from Mare Island, Kaiser Steel and Basalt, just to name a few. Nick passed away in 1969 and his daughters Muriel and Anita decided to keep the bar open and run it themselves. On July 10, 1974 small town Napa was shaken to it’s core; Anita was murdered inside the bar after closing and no suspect was found. Muriel kept the bar open until 1976 and then decided to close it up as it was with beer bottles in the cooler, glasses on the bar, barstools where they were. Then began the local’s facination with the building. Oh, if only these walls could talk.