Formerly: The Alamo · Alamo Draft House
Park City, Utah · Founded 2000 · Building: 1905
A 2000 Park City saloon and grill born from a trademark dispute over the former Alamo bar, housed in a 1905 Main Street commercial building.
No Name Saloon & Grill opened in January 2000 after bartender Jesse Shetler took over the former Alamo Draft House at 447 Main Street in Park City. The Spanish Colonial Revival building dates to 1905, but its earlier uses included a mercantile, telephone company, power company, liquor store, bowling alley, pool hall, and the Alamo bar. The current saloon grew from a name-dispute rebrand into a major Main Street gathering place with later rooftop, kitchen, and Annex Burger expansions.
M.S. Aschiem Mercantile Company built the Spanish Colonial Revival commercial building at 447 Main Street.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history, accessed September 1, 2026; KPCW, "No Name Saloon celebrates 25 years this week," August 4, 2025; Jacob Barlow, "The Alamo," November 12, 2018
The building was used by the Utah Independent Telephone Company before that company merged with Rocky Mountain Bell in 1911.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history, accessed September 1, 2026; Jacob Barlow, "The Alamo," November 12, 2018
Over the decades, the building housed Utah Power & Light offices, a liquor store, a bowling alley, and a pool hall before becoming associated with the Alamo bar. Exact dates for each use require city-directory and license research.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history, accessed September 1, 2026; KPCW, August 4, 2025; Jacob Barlow, November 12, 2018
KPCW reports that the Alamo became a beloved Park City saloon in a period it dates from 1959 to 1999. The original licenses, ownership, and exact opening date require further verification.
Source: KPCW, "No Name Saloon celebrates 25 years this week," August 4, 2025
The prior Alamo operators lost the lease. Jesse Shetler and partners assumed it, briefly reopened as Alamo Draft House, and then faced a cease-and-desist order and federal trademark dispute over the Alamo name.
Source: KPCW, August 4, 2025; Park Record, "No Name Saloon still a bar for locals 25 years later," August 8, 2025; No Name Saloon & Grill official history
Jesse Shetler officially opened No Name Saloon after losing the right to use the Alamo name.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history, accessed September 1, 2026; KPCW, August 4, 2025; Park Record, August 8, 2025
No Name expanded to include a larger kitchen, upstairs mezzanine, and heated rooftop patio.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history, accessed September 1, 2026; KPCW, August 4, 2025
No Name expanded into the neighboring building, adding Annex Burger and an upstairs bar room known as The Loft.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history, accessed September 1, 2026
No Name Saloon marked its twenty-fifth anniversary, with Jesse Shetler identified as principal owner alongside Matt "Sully" Sullivan of DBR Restaurants.
Source: KPCW, August 4, 2025; Park Record, August 8, 2025
No Name Saloon & Grill continues active first-come service at 447 Main Street, with current food, bar, rooftop, Annex Burger, and private-event operations.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official website and private-groups page, accessed September 1, 2026; Visit Park City, "No Name Saloon & Annex Burger"
Every claim gets rated. A business's own website can never earn "documented."
The current business, KPCW, and local historic documentation identify the building at 447 Main Street as a 1905 Spanish Colonial Revival commercial structure built by M.S. Aschiem Mercantile Company. Its original use was mercantile/commercial, not a miners' saloon.
Jesse Shetler signed the lease in 1999, briefly reopened the former Alamo as Alamo Draft House, then lost a trademark dispute over the name. The official business history and 2025 Park City reporting say he opened No Name Saloon in January 2000.
The current No Name Saloon brand began in 2000. The 1905 building was originally commercial space and later housed several unrelated uses before the Alamo bar. No reviewed evidence establishes a continuous miners'-saloon identity, a 1903 saloon at this address, or an Astoria-style oldest-bar comparison for Park City.
Park Record identifies Jesse Shetler as principal owner and says he owns No Name with Matt "Sully" Sullivan of DBR Restaurants. The official site documents Shetler's 1999 lease and 2000 opening. The exact legal business entity and ownership shares are not included in the reviewed record.
The A.L.A.M.O. phrase—"America's Last Authentic Miner's Organization"—was Jesse Shetler's attempted acronym for retaining the Alamo name after the 1999 lease transition. It is a modern saloon joke and branding tradition, not evidence of an actual nineteenth-century miners' organization or a 1905 saloon origin.
No Name Saloon was founded in 1903 as a silver miners' drinking hall.
The current No Name Saloon opened in January 2000 after Jesse Shetler took over the former Alamo bar space and lost a trademark dispute over the Alamo name. The building dates to 1905, but it was originally a mercantile/commercial building, not a documented 1903 miners' saloon.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history; KPCW, August 4, 2025; Jacob Barlow, November 12, 2018
No Name Saloon has operated continuously in the 1905 building since the silver boom.
The 1905 building had numerous commercial uses before becoming associated with the Alamo bar. The present No Name business began in 2000, so the building's age and earlier Alamo history do not establish a continuous No Name or miners'-saloon operation.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history; KPCW, August 4, 2025; Park Record, August 8, 2025
The A.L.A.M.O. sign records a historic nineteenth-century miners' organization.
A.L.A.M.O.—"America's Last Authentic Miner's Organization"—was a modern acronym Jesse Shetler used in an attempt to keep the Alamo name after taking over the lease in 1999. It is a branding tradition, not documentary evidence of a nineteenth-century organization.
Source: KPCW, August 4, 2025; Park Record, August 8, 2025
No Name Saloon was renamed in 1998.
The lease transition began in 1999. Jesse Shetler briefly reopened the location as Alamo Draft House, then officially opened No Name Saloon in January 2000 after the trademark dispute.
Source: No Name Saloon & Grill official history; KPCW, August 4, 2025; Park Record, August 8, 2025
No Name survived because it embraced the awkwardness of its own birth story. When Jesse Shetler lost the right to continue using the Alamo name, he turned the lack of a satisfactory replacement into a brand: No Name Saloon. The business then grew alongside Park City's resort economy, adding food, a rooftop patio, mezzanine, private-event capacity, and the neighboring Annex Burger. Its historic value lies less in a false miners'-saloon origin than in how a 1905 commercial building became a durable late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century Park City institution.
No Name Saloon opened in January 2000 after Jesse Shetler took over the former Alamo Draft House at 447 Main Street and lost a trademark dispute over the Alamo name. The 1905 Spanish Colonial Revival building had earlier housed a mercantile, telephone company, power company, liquor store, bowling alley, pool hall, and the Alamo bar. No Name later expanded with a kitchen, rooftop patio, mezzanine, Annex Burger, and The Loft.
No. This review does not establish No Name Saloon as Park City's oldest bar. The current No Name brand began in 2000, while the former Alamo bar had a separate earlier history in the 1905 building. A citywide comparison of Park City's older bars, licenses, and operating records would be needed to make any oldest-bar claim.
The immediate predecessor was Alamo Draft House, tied to the older Alamo bar. Jesse Shetler and partners took over the lease in 1999 and briefly reopened under the Alamo name, but a trademark dispute forced them to rebrand. No Name Saloon officially opened in January 2000.
Jesse Shetler chose the No Name Saloon name after losing the legal right to use the Alamo name. He has said no alternate name seemed likely to make everyone happy, so he registered it as No Name Saloon. The name grew out of a 1999–2000 trademark dispute, not a historical 1900s saloon tradition.
The 1905 building at 447 Main Street was built for M.S. Aschiem Mercantile Company. Before the Alamo/No Name bar era, it housed the Utah Independent Telephone Company, Utah Power & Light, a liquor store, a bowling alley, and a pool hall. The exact dates of each occupancy require additional city-directory and business-license research.
Jesse Shetler is the principal owner of No Name Saloon, together with Matt "Sully" Sullivan of DBR Restaurants, according to 2025 Park Record reporting. Shetler took over the lease in 1999 and opened No Name in 2000 after the Alamo name dispute.
447 Main St, Park City, UT 84060
(435) 649-6667
No Name Saloon is a first-come, first-served Main Street bar and grill. It currently lists late-night daily hours, rooftop and Annex Burger areas, and special Sundance/event timing; confirm current service rules, age policy by area, and hours before visiting.