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Live experiences · Music · Sport
Todd Palmerton
Todd now builds live-event concepts for artists and athletes at THE·TEAM, carrying the original instinct for a great night onto a global stage.
San Francisco · Since the early 2000s
Culture.Community.Defining spaces.
Vintage 415 began with four friends, a shared love of San Francisco and a simple idea: turn weeknights into weekends.
THE ORIGINAL MARK · SAN FRANCISCOEVENTS · CULTURE MARKETING · HOSPITALITY37.7749° N · 122.4194° W
About Vintage 415
01It started with events. It became a way of bringing people together.
Vintage 415 began in the early 2000s as an events and culture-marketing company. Four friends gathering their friends and soon their friends of friends, music and rooms that made San Francisco feel like itself. Parties grew into restaurants, bars, boutiques, venues and collaborations.
Today, Vintage 415 is less a single company than a shared history and a continuing thread. Nate remains in San Francisco hospitality, while Todd, Lawrence and Demetrius have carried that entrepreneurial spirit into live events, music and artist management, and East Bay real estate.
The current chapter
Still creating places for San Francisco.
Bars, restaurants, live music and events. Different concepts, one familiar instinct: create inclusive, feel-good places people want to return to.
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August Hall
A restored century-old music hall for concerts, celebrations and unforgettable private events.
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Fifth Arrow
A subterranean bowling and gaming parlor with three lanes, full food and drinks beneath August Hall.
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The Green Room
A plush upstairs escape for intimate gatherings, receptions and pre- or post-show celebrations.
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Bar Darling
A lively Marina gathering place with garden-led drinks, shareable food and a generous back patio.
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Harper & Rye
A family-run Polk/Nob Hill cocktail and events bar.
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Peacekeeper
An open-roof cocktail bar in Lower Nob Hill.
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April Jean
North Beach’s neighborhood cocktail bar.
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Gold Leaf Catering
Full-service Bay Area food and beverage catering shaped around local ingredients and custom events.
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Lost Resort
A Mission neighborhood escape with an open-air patio, full food menu and easygoing weekend energy.
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Lobalita
A modern Mexican cantina in the Marina with a Mexico-inspired menu and a fresh take on a familiar address.
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Past businesses, lasting memories.
MamacitaUmamiThe AmbassadorTaverna AventineDouble DutchThe Tipsy PigDylan Boutique
The founders story
Four friends who decided to make the night themselves.
At the beginning, Demetrius and Lawrence were in law school, Todd was working in hospitality and Nate was in a corporate finance job. In the early 2000s, just out of college, the four started throwing parties for fun and community. They began with monthly events at places like 111 Minna, Butterfly, Ana Mandara, Fluid, Frisson, Hotel Vitale, Waterbar, EPIC Steak and Cloud Nine. Along the way, they produced hotel openings and brand-marketing events, while one-off parties grew into annual New Year’s Eve and Halloween traditions.
Friends invited friends, hundreds showed up, and in 2004 the four left their day jobs. By 2007, the San Francisco Chroniclecalled them “culture marketers” with a mission to “turn weeknights into weekends.” The name Vintage 415 was already nostalgic: a nod to the days when 415 covered much more of the Bay Area.
Read the 2007 Chronicle profileWhat Todd is doing now
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Artist management · Music · Technology
Lawrence Vavra
Lawrence founded Digital Arts & Sciences, a music and content collective, after building a career at the intersection of artists, ideas and culture.
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Real estate · Design · East Bay
Demetrius Chapin-Rienzo
After years designing and operating Bay Area hospitality projects, Demetrius brought that eye for place and community to East Bay real estate.
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Hospitality · Live music · San Francisco
Nate Valentine
Nate stayed closest to the original hospitality lane, continuing to create bars, restaurants, gathering places and live-music venues across San Francisco.
Still here
The businesses changed. The connection didn’t.
Some of us still carry the vintage415.com email address. All these years later, it remains a small flag for a formative time, four partners and a city we love.
The email still works