The building was designed by architect T.J. The current Ferndale Meat Company building was built in 1903 by the Russ family. “There’s some rotten floor here and there but Curt is happy with the way it is.” “We sent a contractor in there to look at it,” he said. Fieri said he doesn’t plan to do any upgrades to the building. The 3,150 square foot building was listed for $299,299. Just for the Humboldt County Fair Junior Livestock Program, he figures he processes “80 hogs, 30 beef, 50 to 60 lambs.” With only a few meat processing facilities left in the county, Terribilini is constantly busy. “I don’t know what the county would do if this shop didn’t stay here,” he said. Terribilini said Fieri’s purchase is a win not only for Ferndale but for the county. “I’m glad he’s the landlord,” said Terribilini on Tuesday afternoon as he leaned over a broken saw with “six or seven beef” in the freezer ready to be cut. I saw an opportunity to help keep it this way.” A butcher shop on Main Street where you can go in and get a sandwich? That’s a very important part of life. “My goal was to make sure that the property (ownership) stayed local (Fieri obviously still considers himself part of the Ferndale community) and that Curt continues. “That’s something that you don’t have in so many towns,” he said. And I just want him to keep doing it.”įieri touted the services the butcher does for the community, such as processing hunters’ meat and 4-H and FFA projects.
“Curt’s a great guy and what a service he does to the community,” said Fieri, who helped raise more than $20 million in under two months for the newly-created Restaurant Employee Relief Fund, aimed at helping those in the restaurant industry hit hard by the pandemic. Whoever says, ‘yeah, I have’?“įieri emphasized that nothing is going to change at 376 Main Street.īutcher Curt Terribilini has owned the Ferndale Meat Company business since 2001 and Fieri said Ferndale is lucky to have him. They asked if I ever had worked in a butcher shop. “I went to work for a big meat processing plant in Las Vegas when I was in college. “I followed the system and I would make the jerky.”įieri, who said he has just recently finished refurbishing his childhood home on Rose Avenue, which his parents, Jim and Penny, visit about once a month from their current home in Santa Rosa, recalls that he had the job for about a year. We had a special way we made the jerky,” said Fieri. “I loved the jerky and I asked Gary (Edgmon - former longtime owner) if I could have a job.” Fieri - known back then as Guy Ferry, before he changed the spelling of his last name to his grandfather’s - was hired.
“I was making jerky at the meat company when I was in fifth grade at Ferndale Elementary,” said Fieri on Tuesday evening.
He bought the historic building the next day. When the Ferndale Enterprise publisher sent a text to television celebrity Guy Fieri on the evening of January 4 that the building that has been home to the Ferndale Meat Company for more than a century and where the Ferndale-raised restaurateur, author and Emmy Award winner had his first job as a young child was for sale, Fieri wasted no time. Nostalgic buy for television celebrity and former town resident made jerky at butcher shop as a child Television star Guy Fieri in November 2013 at the Ferndale Meat Company with co-owner Curt Terribilini (center with apron) during the filming of the “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” special, “Guy’s Hometown Tour.” On the left is Patty Terribilini (Curt’s younger sister), and on the right is Pixie Setterlund, Curt’s other sister and partner in the Loleta Meat Market and the Ferndale Meat Co.
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