Three years ago, the British Bankers Club had descended into the ranks of the Peninsula's dive bars: dark, dank, and providing food suitable only for those brave souls who had been drinking for some time. But that is not what Lance White and Richard Eldridge saw when they walked into the BBC for the first time. Enamored by the history of the building and of the area, White and Eldridge saw potential in Menlo Park's brick institution.