Word: co-op
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main groups who lived in the co-op at first were foreigners, radicals, and those looking for cheap housing. However, the assistant social chairman of the Fly Club also lived there at one point, as did George Gilder, now a conservative economist. And Daemon Paine, a homeless person, came for Thanksgiving dinner in 1970 and never left until his death fifteen years later...
...four dogs and some goldfish are among the co-op's pets today. Three iguanas, fed on lettuce and Alpo, inhabited the basement for a while, and somebody had an alligator named Miles, which ate cockroaches. The cockroach population is legendary. One alumnus told of an entymologist from the Museum of Comparative Zoology who once visited the house because it had the rare distinction of harboring three different species of cockroaches...
...first president of the co-op, Richard Segal '60, told of amusements in the early years. "We would shut off the water in 1705 [Sacramento street, the other co-op house] around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. We would decorate the house for Halloween with skeletons, because this was a residential neighborhood then and kids would come to trick-or-treat here...
...Jones dinners, using no silverware, have been a tradition since the co-op's beginning. They are usually followed by food fights. Henry M. Sandow '75-'77 described a particularly huge one, nicknamed the Battle of the Alamo. "We cleaned out the contents of three refrigerators, threw about thirty dozen eggs, dumped a five-gallon can of oil on the floor and overturned the tables. It ended when somebody got the firehose and started spraying everybody--they were all falling down because of the oil. Then we cleaned...
Describing co-op life, Sandow said, "We'd party all night, then everybody would get laid. It was great. You can quote me on that." Certain people occasionally came to dinner wearing nothing but a tie and shoes, and at least once an entire nude table, for both sexes, was organized, said Robert R. Terrell '79. There were volleyball games every night after dinner, and Wednesday night poker games. "We played poker like it was a religion," said Sandow...