祝！３０周年記念

thank you to our friend l.c. for providing additional photos.

we have a fuller sense of the festive day that passed this spring.

thank you to all who made it out and for those of you

who were elsewhere, we missed you deeply.

thank you for all of you who made it possible to celebrate such a day.

三十周年を祝い、

お客さんから新しい写真をいただき、

編集作業でなんとこんなに遅れて、

新たに祝う気持ちで、

再度味わう。

heading over to the other side of the bay.

bart in the morning.

週末の朝のバートの様子。

lovely friend of the shop e.s. welcomed the ebisu friends

with coffee and scallion bacon scones.

now off for a ride.

es氏により、

朝のエビスライドが企画され、

集合場所は彼のロフト。

コーヒーと自家製ベーコン、ねぎ入りスコーンで

迎える彼。

さあ、これから走るべし。

heading to downtown oakland.

getting to know one another.

happy to see v.r. on her light blue ebisu

after hiatus.

her presence matches this sky.

さて、出発。

エビスを通じて初めて会う人。

久々に自転車に乗るvr氏。

彼女の性格はこの青空のよう。

gather at the shop.

お店で集合。

 

some of the old friend brought items

they had purchased early on.

a bit of history.

昔からのお客さんは

うちのお店であの時代に買った品をいくつか

持ってきて披露。

old friends who worked at js came to celebrate as well.

we met y.o. as a student at cal when he was still in his teens.

his older brother t.o. was on the cal cycling team and

they rode around in a vw bus.

these were the years when bomber jackets and ray bans

were in full rotation (no irony).

when we met y.o. he spoke mostly english,

which otosan would promptly reply in japanese.

(i could write endlessly about our employees over the years but

i will save it for another post.)

昔お店で働いた人もみえて、

感謝でいっぱい。

当時大学生であった彼。

今や、自分の家族と一緒に。

元従業員の話になると長いので、

それはまたの機会と言う事で。

old and new friends.

the island connect on right. (talk story?)

the next generation.

under the warm regard of the elders.

ハワイの話で盛り上がる。

言った事ないな。

次の世代。

どうにか犬かき状態。

with gratitude.

感謝。

this is where the real excitement is.

初心にもどって。