Built circa 1910 this building was originally a restaurant. It is a western false front one-story wood framed structural system with a concrete foundation. The exterior is clad with horizontal wood siding and there is a recessed entry of wood and glass French style double doors with a wood sash transom.

The building has had a variety of uses over the years. It is believed to have been used as a Greyhound bus line ticket office in the early 1900’s. An August 14, 1920 advertisement in the San Juan Bautista “Mission News” announces “Pickwick Stages office @ Vincent’s”.

The Pickwick Stage Lines was a west coast company that like many early bus and taxi companies, started out small in 1912 with a Model T Ford and by the mid-teens had prospered and was buying Pierce-Arrow cars for use as stages. By the early 1920s Pickwick built its own coach bodies for the long distance routes the company ran.  Pickwick intercity parlor-buffet coaches were introduced on the Pierce-Arrow Model Z Chasis in 1925, and by 1927 the Pickwick Observation-Buffet Coach model with an elevated drivers’ compartment in the form of a crows nest jutting out from the front of the vehicle was designed.

Pickwick Stage Lines, Automotive Industries magazine, September 18, 1927, issue.

The Forklift ice cream parlor and sandwich shop moved into the building in the early 80’s and was sold in 1997 to current tenant Margot’s Ice Cream Parlor which has received Business of the Year honors from the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce.