Wednesday Pub Night #198 (5/17/00) -7:00 pm at West Village Saloon

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With only two weeks to go before number 200, I recently perused the Previous PubNight list on the now 2-year old PubNight.com web page (Three cheers for Greg!) and noted a geographic center around which our gatherings revolve. It is in the center of the Village near NYU, where several regulars work or formerly worked. Not surprisingly - and not coincidentally - it is also very close to where Stuart, our founder, used to live and where I currently live. We don't like to have long walks home on Wednesday nights.

As you know, Stuart moved to Maine last year. After 7-1/2 years on West 12th Street and 9 years living Downtown, I am also moving north, but not quite as far as Maine. I signed a contract on an apartment on West 55th (Hells Kitchen). I also glanced at my undergraduate diploma a few days ago and noticed that this coming Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of my graduation from Manhattan College (Go, Jaspers!)

So, this week's PubNight is my choice. Therefore, it is in the West Village (my soon-to-be former home) and includes meat. It is also a short walk from home.

• Place: West Village Saloon
• Address: 51 Grove Street btwn 7th Ave and Bleecker (off Sheridan Square)
• Time: 7:00 pm
• URL: http://www.westvillagesaloon.com/
• Backup: Pennyfeather's, 95 7th Ave So. at Grove (also has food)

...or, see www.pubnight.com for more info. Also, see below for reasons to celebrate.

• 5/15/1981 - The twenty-millionth Volkswagen Beetle was produced. It was made at the Volkswagen plant in Puebla, Mexico.
• 5/15/1997 - Amazon.com IPO'ed to the tune of megabucks.
• 5/16/1888 - Inventor Emile Berliner demonstrated the first modern phonograph record.
• 5/17/1954 - In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that ruled that racial segregation in public educational facilities was unconstitutional.
• 5/17/1991 - World Wide Web released on CERN machines.
• 5/18/1908 - In a move that seemingly flew in the face of America's founding belief in the separation of church and state, Congress passed legislation that made the maxim "In God We Trust" an obligatory element of certain coins.
• 5/19/1998 - The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft, alleging that the company's business practices crushed competition and stifled innovation.
• 5/20/1990 - Steven Petrucelli of Eastchester, New York graduated from Manhattan College with a Bachelors Degree. With little plan for the future and bleeding heart liberal do-gooder optimism, he promptly took the lowest paying job offer of the four he received. And he hasn't left or regretted it (too much) yet.

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