Wednesday Pub Night #211 (8/16/00) - 8pm at Kettle of Fish

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Greetings.

It is time to go back to the Village before the thousands of young NYU students return and crowd the bars until next May. Our destination this week is Kettle of Fish at (read carefully!) 59 Christopher Street between Waverly and 7th Ave South, at Sheridan Square in the heart of the West Village. Veteran New Yorkers, please note that Kettle of Fish is no longer on W.3rd, but rather has moved west to the former Lion's Head space. It is near the 1/9 at Christopher St, the A/C/E/B/D/F/Q at West 4th St, and the PATH at 9th or Christopher. I'm feeling verbose.

No PubNight Birthdays this week, as far as I've heard, so...
Happy Belated Birthday (8/14/61) to Susan Olsen, Cindy Brady from TV's "Brady Bunch" and Happy Birthday this week to..

• August 15, 1769 - Napolean Bonaparte (dead former Emperor of France). If he were alive today, he'd be...old.
• August 16, 1930 - Frank Gifford (College/Pro Football Hall of Famer and extramarital affair participant)
• August 16, 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford (former high school cheerleader [big surprise there, eh); alleged sweatshop owner; retired (thankfully!) talk show host; and, wife of the above public cheater)
• August 16, 1958 - Madonna (Ciccone) (singer, dancer, hussy, mother of 2)
• August 17, 1958 - Belinda Carlisle (singer of the The Go-Go's, songwriter of "Skidmarks On My Heart")
• August 17, 1960 - Sean Penn - (actor; puncher of photographers)
• August 18, 1969 - Christian Slater (actor with multiple convictions for cocaine, assault, and gun possession)

Also this week in history:

Top 2 items:
August 16, 1985 - Saying Goodbye to General Lee - The last episode of the television show Dukes of Hazard aired on this day, concluding a successful five-year run. Aside from Bo, Luke, Daisy, and Uncle Jesse, the star of the show was the General Lee, a 1969 Dodge Charger (and also co-starring was the infamous clothing item known as "daisy dukes", rumored to be back in style again this summer according to the NY Times in June.)

and in the same week - 15 years ago this week, in August 1985, Petro left home for college. He spent his last night of freedom seeing Squeeze on the Pier with Stuart and several other friends. Stuart, Karen G-D, Athomas, SCooney, and several other PubNighters left for college over the subsequent several weeks. (Although we didn't know them then.)
 

• Where: Kettle of Fish
• Time: 8:00 pm (no food, so eat first)
• Address: 59 Christopher St, between Waverly and 7th Ave South
• URL: http://newyork.citysearch.com/E/V/NYCNY/0011/37/07/
• Backup: Riviera Cafe and Sports Bar, 255 West 4th St (across 7th Ave)
• Random Geek Too-Much-Free-Time Web Link for the Week: http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/
  (It is the "Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers" See his personal page at http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/ for other history lists and geek stuff)

See you at PubNight at Kettle of Fish.
Petro, Jay, and Kris

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