The acclaimed Butcher BBQ Stand in Wellston, Oklahoma, secretly constructed and recently opened a 1970s-inspired bar attached to its Route 66 restaurant.
The bar is called Uncle Mark’s — a tribute to restaurant owner Levi Bouska’s uncle and his mother’s childhood home, reported KFOR-TV in nearby Oklahoma City.
It’s a living room-size addition to take people right back to the mid-1970s: furniture-size TV, vintage Atari, and comfy couches.
Bouska admits, “I got some stuff from my grandma she doesn’t know about.”
He didn’t bother telling his uncle what he was doing until a couple of weeks ago.
“He didn’t want us to see it,” says Mark Scott, or Uncle Mark. “It makes me think of home.”
Only people like Mark would recognize items like his old skateboard over the bar or some of the other items sprinkled around for detail.
“It’s neat,” continues Mark, “like stepping back in time.”
Here is a look at Uncle Mark’s from the restaurant’s and bar’s social media pages:
Butcher BBQ Stand sits near the site of the historic Pioneer Camp restaurant in Wellston that closed more than a decade after a fire.
(Image of Uncle Mark’s bar inside Butcher BBQ Stand in Wellston, Oklahoma, via Facebook)