PORTSMOUTH�� While many look forward to the re-opening of the Press Room, some items from the iconic downtown bar will be sold at a yard sale Saturday, said operating partner Chris Grenier.

Everything was removed from the 77 Daniel St. pub before renovations began and not everything can go back in, Grenier explained. Because the Press Room has been such an integral part of the community, he said, "first in line to get that stuff should be the community."

The Press Room was sold 13 months ago after 42 years in business offering live music, poetry and literature readings.�Representing prior and longtime owners Laurie Kennedy and her husband Jay Gardner, attorney Jonathan Flagg said at the time the sale of the downtown pub �presents its own set of problems� including �certificates and regulations, which the Press Room has fallen behind on over the last 40 years of continuous, 7-nights-a-week live music hosting.�

Grenier said Thursday a substantial renovation was required, including structural work, raising questions about, "How much of the old Press Room can we bring back?" and "How much of the old Press Room can we re-purpose?" He said as the building was brought back to its bones, it made "less and less sense to try and recreate something that's really not there anymore."

All of the contents have been in storage and much thought has gone into curating which "sacred objects" will remain, Grenier said. Keepers include the unsigned painting of a nude that hung over the bar.

"As far as we're concerned, the Press Room isn't the Press Room without her," he said. "That's been there since the beginning."

Also returning will be decorative iron railings forged by local blacksmith Peter Hapney that were at the top of a half wall, Grenier said. Typewriters that were above the bar will go back and an "original" Press Room sign, that pre-dates the one hanging outside, will be incorporated into the new bar, he said.

The items may not be returned to the same places, Grenier said, but they will be recognized in the Press Room reboot.

"And then there's everything else," he said, explaining Saturday's yard sale.

At the yard sale will be lighted pub signs and marketing pieces from beverage vendors, Grenier said. There will be Press Room bar stools, chairs, tables, dishes and glassware. The downstairs "pew-style" benches will be sold, alongside random electronics and musical gear, he said.

Grenier said Press Room fans will find more, including items from�Trigger House, a Portsmouth and Brooklyn, New York, "experimental marketing agency" that is partnering for the sale. Trigger House, which has hosted pop-up shops, will be selling assorted items previously used, in many cases just once, for their marketing promotions, Grenier said.�

"Over the years, they've accumulated all sorts of decor and furniture," he said. "It's the widest, most random assortment of stuff."

Grenier said the reason for the yard sale, is that "with one or two exceptions, it's not valuable stuff."

"It's priced to sell and it's not a money-making endeavor," said Grenier, adding the first $500 raised will be donated to the Seacoast Jazz Society, which has "had such a long relationship with the Press Room."

The sale will be held in the parking lot at 400 Route 1 Bypass behind the U-Haul business. It starts Saturday at 9 a.m. and no sales will be made before that time, advised Grenier.

The Press Room re-opening target date is "late summer," he said.