Sports and music were replaced Thursday night with news feeds on the big screens at Edinburgh Castle Scottish Pub in San Francisco.
Alan Black, who was born in Scotland, came to the United States in 1989. He was one of many who people who gathered at the pub to get the latest on the vote, which ultimately showed Scotland will remain a part of the United Kingdom.
"It's probably something 20 years ago I would of thought impossible to happen," Black said.
Christopher Everett, who is in the Bay Area visiting from Scotland, also stopped by the pub.
"I'm sad not to be in Glasgow enjoying the moment with my friends and family," he said. "But you know it is what it is."
Everett said he would have voted in favor of removing Scotland from the United Kingdom.
"To be run by your own country, by your own people seems like the logical way to combat the problems that we have in our own country," he said.
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Many others at the pub enjoyed seeing the process of the vote -- one that didn't resort to angry mobs.
"I mean it's actually very beautiful that this can come down to a peaceful vote," said Buck Defore.
