Wednesday Pub Night #218 (10/04/00) - 7:30 pm at Bowlmor

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Friends,

PubNight this week is at a landmark institution in the Village. But I'll get to that later.

It was a busy September as the end of the fiscal year rolled through while my schedule was torn asunder by moving to a new apartment, volunteer commitments, and ever-shifting priorities at work. I missed PubNight 216 to spend a week touring the lovely nuclear power plants of Central New York and had to leave PubNight 217 early, after arriving late, due to other work-related commitments. In the words of "a great man", the same one recently quoted by Stuart, "It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear." Or, as he once said, life is treating me" like a baby treats a diaper."

I need a drink. And I would like some company.

"Bowlmor Lanes was built in 1938, and is Manhattan's only surviving bowling alley from the 'Golden Age of Bowling'. Bowlmor was also the site of the first televised bowling shows in the 1950's. Since then, Bowlmor has appeared in the movie "5 Corners," with Jodie Foster, several short films and music videos, the Guess Jeans print ad series, Cosmopolitan magazine, the J. Crew Fall 1997 catalog, and two VH-1 specials." It is also rumored that the Sex Pistols and other punk bands played some of their first shows at Bowlmor. So , there it is. It may be a league night, but you can probably get in a few games while we are there if you are willing to wait until the league crowd die down. Or, they may make you wait a while for a lane, which just adds to the drinkin' and chattin' time. Bowling is not intended as a central part of the night; it's optional.

Happy Birthday to Ken Perlin (Oct. 4) and Leslie Schwartz (Oct. 5)!!! We won't discuss ages, but they are both somewhere in the age range between Sting and Tiffany (see below).

• Date: Wed. October 4th, 2000
• Where: Bowlmor (the bar is straight ahead, past the shoe rental counter, when you get off the elevator)
• Address: 110 University Place
• Between: 12th and 13th Streets
• Time: 7:30 pm
• Food: yes, they have food, and there is no shortage of other food options in the neighborhood
• URL: http://www.bowlmor.com
• Backup: Cedar Tavern (upstairs), 82 University Place at 12th

This week in history:
• 10/2/1890 - Groucho (Julius) Marx born
• 10/2/1895 - Bud (William) Abbott born
• 10/2/1928 - Spanky (George) McFarland born
• 10/2/1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner) born.
• 10/2/1971 - Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch) born. (I think -- in fact, I hope -- there are no Tiffany fans at PubNight!)
• 10/2/1967 - Thurgood Marshall Sworn In - Thurgood Marshall, solicitor general of the U.S. Court of Appeals, is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
• 10/3/1678 - TAJ MAHAL COMPLETED: One of the world's finest architectural jewels, the Taj Mahal was completed on October 3, 1678. Vineel just came back from a few weeks in India, but I don't know if he was anywhere near here.
• 10/3/1922 - The First Female Senator - Rebecca L. Felton, a Democrat, becomes the first female senator in U.S. history when she is appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Watson. If you've read this far...I hope you are registered to vote. If not, you have one week left to get registered. Go to: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/vac/html/register.html
• 10/3/1992 - PowerMac prototype booted up - At about 5 A.M. on this day in 1992, the first PowerPC Macintosh prototype was booted up.
  
• 10/4/****- Nothing too interesting appears to have happened on this day.
  
• 10/5/1949 - Jeff Conaway (actor: Taxi, movie version of Grease) born
  
• 10/6/1942 - Xerography patented- On October 6, 1942, Chester Floyd Carlson obtained a patent on the xerography process for making electrostatic copies. And a new way to waste paper was born.

That's it. See you at Bowlmor.