Wednesday Pub Night #197 (5/10/00) - 7:00 pm at Tribeca Tavern
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welcome -
In case you haven't noticed (or perhaps you live somewhere north of
manhattan) it's warm out... really warm out - one might say 'it's hot'...
this is the kind of weather that sends a body to bars that serve
frilly-fruity drinks with little umbrellas and crushed ice... or perhaps
large pitchers of sangria with chunks of fruit, laden with precious nectar
and red-red wine.
Unfortunately, the heat had very little to do with this week's choice for
pubnight (I mention it only for effect - I couldn't come up with a better
tie in to the rest of the email) - because this week WE GO SOUTH! South to
the Tribeca Tavern!
Ok, not really, just south of where I work... I've had occasion to visit
the Tribeca Tavern (only on tuesdays) where I have always found the food
delicious, the beer flowing, the service 'interesting', and the bathrooms
abysmal...
I highly recommend viewing the map - Tribeca Tavern has two entrances one on
the continuation of West Broadway (just south of beach st./walker st.), the
other on 6th ave (just south of walker st.)
It has come to our attention that some people wish pubnight take place a
little earlier - so in response we have decided to start pubnight at 7:00pm
(incidentally, I have an early meeting on thursday, so my reasons are more
or less selfish)
just one more note: pubnight 200 is coming to NYC... where will you be?
as always - we'll see you there
- kris, petro, j
this week in history:
- 1502:
Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the
Western Hemisphere.
(source 9online.com)
- 1775:
Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
(source onthisday.com)
- 1869:
The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah -- The
Transcontinential railroad is completed.
(source onthisday.com)
- 1914:
President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation on May 9th asking Americans
to give a public expression of reverence to mothers through the celebration
of Mother's Day (source cweb2.loc.gov)
- 1923:
J Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI.
(source onthisday.com)
- 1940:
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister.
(source onthisday.com)
- 1950:
Dianetics is first published, after an article on the subject is published
in the May issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Critics deem the work
"incomprehensible" and "impenetrable". The subsequent movement goes on to
become one of the scariest, most powerful cults in modern
(source rotten.com)
- 1960:
the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill as safe for birth control
use. (The pill, Enovid, was made by G.D. Searle and Company of Chicago.)
(source 9online.com)
- 1983:
The all powerful and infallible Pope John Paul II reverses the condemnation
of another all powerful and infallible Pope Urban VIII made in 1633, of
Galileo. The scientist was tried for heresy and forced to recant basic facts
of science, for which the Church took 350 years to decide it had erred.
(source rotten.com)
- 1987:
Gary Hart withdrew from US Presidential race after press uncovered his
affair with Donna Rice (1987)
(source rotten.com)
- 1988:
Robert A Heinlein dead
(source rotten.com)
- 1994:
George Peppard, star of TV's "A Team" and "Banacek", dead at 65.
(source rotten.com)
- 1999:
Dana Plato, who played Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, dies in
Oklahoma of an overdose of Valium and Loritab. On Friday, Plato appeared on
the Howard Stern syndicated radio show claiming to be clean & sober; on
Saturday she is dead from prescription drugs.
(source rotten.com)
- birthdays:
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneer in optics.
Fred Astaire, tapdancer.
Billy Joel
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