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A Minute With: Phil Bucher
Phil Bucher was born at Mills Hospital in San Mateo and grew up in San Carlos. He attended
Clifford and McKinley schools in Redwood City and graduated from Sunnyvale High School in 1967.
He graduated from Cañada College with an associate degree.
After serving in the military, Phil decided to continue his family’s jewelry business, Reinhardt
and Company, which had been in downtown Redwood City since 1926.
He also worked at Gold Coast Jewelers for 12 years. He began working at St. Regal in 1989,
when it was owned by Joe and Sandy Ferrando. Phil bought the business from them in 1999
and moved it to its current Main Street location in 2005. He is well-known and respected for
jewelry and watch repairing.
Phil has lived in Redwood City on and off since 1971. He is engaged, but he and his fiancée,
Jeannette, have not set a definite wedding date. He has two daughters: Melissa, 30, and
Jeanette, 27. Jeanette works at his shop on Saturdays.
He is active in the Downtown Business Group, the Chamber of Commerce and the Kings
Mountain Archers, which is an archery club in the Kings Mountain area.
Phil loves to play the guitar and is in a band called Carson City Crew. He also enjoys the study of
ancient north and central South American history, as well as the study of natural phenomena.
His hobbies include exercise, and he is an avid nutritionist.
Downtown Redwood City is?
Beautiful!
Why retail here?
Enjoy the people.
The future for downtown is?
Only go up.
If you were stuck on a desert island, which one book,
movie or person would you want to take along?
My fiancée.
What talent would you most like to have?
Time travel.
Something few know about you?
My life’s an open book.
What phrase do you most overuse?
Did you know?
What is your favorite book?
“Grapes of Wrath.”
Favorite movie?
“Avatar.”
What is your motto?
Live in peace with nature.
Anyone you got on your mind?
Grandparents, who started the jewelry business.
Their energy is around me all the time to help me
succeed.
Memorable moment?
Camping/fishing trip with my children to
Yosemite National Park.
You still can’t believe?
That we are not living in peace.
What is a dream you have or something you’d
like to accomplish in your life?
To produce a classic rock song and have it published.
When you die, you want to come back as?
An eagle.
What would life be like if you had wings?
It would be fabulous, fantastic!
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