The Popcorn Cart

A 1900s-style heritage vendor cart, designed and hand-built over three months for Pawn Shop, the Melrose sports bar helmed by James Beard Award-winning Chef Tony Messina. It rolls on 100-year-old Amish buggy wheels from Ohio, found on Facebook Marketplace in northern California. The body is hand-painted in Farrow & Ball Beverly Green and School House White, and Reilly gilded the PAWN SHOP wordmark in gold leaf herself. The antique brass push bar was salvaged while antiquing during her Oxford MBA year and carried for five years until the right project came along. The service pieces carry their own histories: a 19th-century French brass grain scoop, 1970s English brass salt shakers, and a 1964 Coca-Cola crate bought from a collector in a Burbank CVS parking lot. Ballpark nostalgia at its best. Go check it out on the 2nd floor of Pawn Shop!