![]() ![]() The Segura family tapped into their friend group to flesh out their calendar and, over the years, the Knockout hosted a number of popular DJ nights. Kevin Kelleher & Emily Trinh/Special to SFGATE The band Boy Talk performs at the Knockout in San Francisco's Mission District on Friday night, April 8, 2023. “A lot of people got their start there, and blew up into higher, greater, bigger places or moved away,” says Paul Costuros, a bartender and longtime booker at the Knockout whose bands and DJ nights have also graced the venue’s small stage. Garage punk was one of the dominant musical scenes in the Bay Area in 2005, and the Knockout saw early success with bookings from the Black Lips, the King Khan & BBQ Show and Jay Reatard. I think that’s how it really became more of a punk rock venue as opposed to the lighter side of music.” “We didn’t have a clear game plan,” Segura says, adding that he and DX began by booking rockabilly and soul acts. “It was time to take a step, you know, take a risk really, and try to do our own venue and our own vision,” he recalls. Segura and brother DX ran the bar for 13 years, and Schrunk - who manages neighboring Thrillhouse Records and had been booking bands at the Knockout for years - became a co-owner in 2018. Kevin Kelleher and Emily Trinh/Special to SFGATE He grew up playing in bands, and after years working at the Elbo Room in the ’90s, he purchased the bar on Mission Street at Fair Avenue with his family.Ĭo-owners Fred Schrunk, left, and John Segura of The Knockout in San Francisco on April 15, 2023. ![]() Segura moved to the Bay Area from Los Angeles. forest used as Endor in 'Star Wars' disappeared ‘It was time to take a risk’ artist fighting for her place in 'Star Wars' history Star Wars | The story of Carrie Fisher’s ‘Star Wars’ Stinson Beach photosīay Area | This obscure Bay Area study shaped the ending of 'Star Wars'Ĭulture | The Calif. While the Knockout was preceded by venues like El Rio and community spaces such as Blue Plate, Schrunk felt it offered something the neighborhood was missing - a space that wasn’t dedicated to a particular scene, but to the creation of punk-influenced art in all its forms. When Segura went to get permits for his new bar, city officials told him the neighborhood used to be like the Wild West. The creation of the Knockout in 2005 was part of a new wave of development in the Outer Mission. In 2000, the space was rebirthed as the Odeon, a wild and beloved bar that lasted for five years. The building has been a bar ever since, with watering holes called the Golden Door, Guzzo’s Cocktails and the Brick House serving drinks between the ’70s and early ’90s. Between 19, the site was various incarnations of a bar called the Red Barn. Over the years, the storefront housed a dentist office, real estate office, a jeweler, a bakery and a liquor store. (Kevin Kelleher & Emily Trinh/Special to SFGATE) (Kevin Kelleher & Emily Trinh/Special to SFGATE) From the Wild West to the center of the sceneģ223 Mission was built in the 1890s and was originally a corset shop, according to SF Historical Society volunteer researcher Ann Raftery.
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