Waterfront Bar & Grill in downtown San Diego holds the city's oldest continuous liquor license, opening at 2044 Kettner Boulevard in December 1933 the moment Prohibition was repealed — a distinction that predates every other active license in the county. The bar originally served the Italian and Portuguese fishermen who crewed San Diego's massive tuna fleets when the Embarcadero waterfront literally fronted the building, a maritime history preserved in the fishnets, swordfish mounts, and Pacific Coast League memorabilia covering every wall alongside the same from-scratch pub kitchen approach found at Nolita Hall's Little Italy beer-and-burger program. When condo developers redeveloped the surrounding Kettner block, they built the residential towers around the bar rather than demolish it — a preservation decision that left the original dive-bar footprint intact inside a modern mixed-use building. The Texas burger has anchored the grill menu for generations, drawing a crowd that fills the cramped bar and patio from morning breakfast service through the post-midnight rush, a full-day drinking-and-dining arc that mirrors the early-open bar culture at Stout Public House further downtown. Celebrity drop-ins from Gene Wilder to Bill Murray have added to the bar's mythology, though the real draw remains the unbroken 90-plus-year streak of serving cold drafts and scratch burgers from the same Kettner Boulevard address.