Mariah Lukenbill never dreamed of owning a bar.”I was actually looking for different places in Sacramento to buy and turn into a coffee shop,” she said.But you can say after one look at the building on the corner of Riverside Boulevard and 43rd Avenue in Sacramento, California, she found her place. “I just kind of fell in love with it,” Lukenbill said. “I walked in, and it’s this funky little place.”At 24 years old, she’s one of the city’s youngest bar owners. She owns “The Trap,” one of the oldest bars in the city.”I just think it is incredible this building was built in the 1860s still stands today,” Lukenbill said.The Trap wasn’t always what it is today.”It was a grocery store at one time,” Lukenbill said. “It was an inn and it was a brothel.”But it’s best known for being the Pocket’s neighborhood watering hole.“It’s like the landmark of the south here,” said customer Art Pineau. “It’s been here for ages.”Lukenbill bought The Trap nearly two years ago and said it was predominantly a men’s bar,so much so that women were forced to come in through a back door. Times have obviously changed.“It’s a unique spot, but I think that’s what makes it so great, fun and unique,” Lukenbill said.
Mariah Lukenbill never dreamed of owning a bar.
“I was actually looking for different places in Sacramento to buy and turn into a coffee shop,” she said.
But you can say after one look at the building on the corner of Riverside Boulevard and 43rd Avenue in Sacramento, California, she found her place.
“I just kind of fell in love with it,” Lukenbill said. “I walked in, and it’s this funky little place.”
At 24 years old, she’s one of the city’s youngest bar owners. She owns “The Trap,” one of the oldest bars in the city.
“I just think it is incredible this building [that] was built in the 1860s still stands today,” Lukenbill said.
The Trap wasn’t always what it is today.
“It was a grocery store at one time,” Lukenbill said. “It was an inn and it was a brothel.”
But it’s best known for being the Pocket’s neighborhood watering hole.
“It’s like the landmark of the south here,” said customer Art Pineau. “It’s been here for ages.”
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Lukenbill bought The Trap nearly two years ago and said it was predominantly a men’s bar,
so much so that women were forced to come in through a back door. Times have obviously changed.
“It’s a unique spot, but I think that’s what makes it so great, fun and unique,” Lukenbill said.
