PubNight #247 (05/02/01) - 8:00 pm at Dusk Lounge

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This week the triumvirate has decided to try a new bar in Chelsea. This darkly lit bar, good cocktails, a pool table, cool looking mirror mosaics on the walls (although, last time I was there they a bit hard to see in the darkness), and fish tanks behind it's dark mahogany bar.

May 2nd seems to have some odd historical birthdays attached to it... here's what we (Petro) has dug up for this week. Some might even be relevant to conversation tomorrow night...

- May 2, 1837 - Henry M. Robert (U.S. Army General; author: Robert's Rules of Etiquette, the standard for parliamentary procedure) - I have to believe that some PubNighters were high school debate club members.

- May 2, 1892 - The Red Baron (d.Apr 21, 1918 at 25) - Manfred Von Ricthoven, pilot; he shot down more than 80 enemy aircraft during World War I and became known as "The Red Baron." (and Snoopy's nemesis.)

- May 2, 1902 - Benjamin Spock (baby doctor, author: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care). Set the standard by which Baby Boomer parents raised their Gen X kids.

- May 2, 1937 - Lorenzo Music: the voice of Carlton the doorman on TV's Rhoda and, for the Gen Y set, the voice of Garfield the cat (http://www.fortogden.com/carlton.wav)

• Where: Dusk Lounge
• Address: 147 W 24th St, btwn 6th and 7th Aves
• When: 8:00pm
• Food: no
• URL: http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7105018/
• Backup: H2K, 219 Ninth Avenue, btwn 23rd & 24th Streets

--kris, petro and jay

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