Antiques
$50 Gift Certificate to Ohmega Salvage
- Item Number
- 145
- Estimated Value
- 50 USD
- Sold
- 33 USD to kaufmanland
- Number of Bids
- 4 - Bid History
Item Description
A gift certificate towards any purchase at Ohmega Salvage in Berkeley.
OHMEGA SALVAGE builds community through commerce by being a model of reuse, recycling and social exchange.
We preserve old quality items and resources for our customers.
Ohmega Salvage was born on June 4,1974 at 9:30 PM sharp in the Flight Bar at the San Francisco International Airport. Victor Lab (known to all as Vito) and Bob Ford, while sipping drinks that fateful night, signed partnership papers to buy and deconstruct a huge two story building at the Oakland Naval Supply facility. The building exceeded 18,000 square feet. After signing the agreement, one partner confessed that, in his whole life, he had never taken down more than a chicken coop.
Several days later, the second partner, when asked by a Naval contract inspector, how they expected to proceed with the impending removal, replied calmly, yet somewhat facetiously, “Very Carefully!”
Legendary characters such as Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm; Country Joe MacDonald; Dan and John Fogerty (Vito sold Dan a Quanset Hut); Malcolm McAfee whose son later started McAfee software; Lloyd Kahn (publisher of Shelter and Shelter II); Kerista Village; the architect Dan Lieberman; Terry Riley, the extraordinary New Age composer (e.g. Rainbow in Curved Air); the Save the Whales Group who put on the original Whale Play in the Ohmega warehouse; and other celebrated icons of the era were welcomed by the group as friends and customers.
Item Special Note
*Does not expire
*Not replaceable if lost
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