Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gary Kamiya, 31, a San Francisco cabby with a master's degree in English, remains cheerfully unaffected by the trend to lighter drinking. He may have a beer at lunch, perhaps a Manhattan cocktail or wine at dinner during the week, and he drinks every weekend as well. "I've continued to slam down the hard stuff with as much alacrity as ever," he says. Indeed, for every yuppie who has traded in vodka for mineral water, there seems to be a social drinker like Kamiya clinging to the old ways--or a teenager taking up a habit...
...everyone's aluminum cans, sell them and use the money for the regular Saturday hamburger cookouts. In the winter, when the weather was right, 25 or 30 people would wander down to the end of the dock to a little pavilion they called Fiddler's Green and spend the cocktail hour watching for the elusive sunset phenomenon known as the green flash. The ships' store was out there, with the telephones and mailboxes...
...mast of the Adams' boat was moving: they were up. "We'll probably go anchor out, all alone somewhere. That's nice. It's a different way of life," he says. The night before, everyone had gathered for the last party, an "End of an Era" cocktail hour. They gave Steve Coe $301 they collected as a thank-you present, and Bobbi Pluhar stood on a chair and promised there would be a reunion at her house next year. "I thought it would continue as it was," said Joe Pluhar, sadly. "We developed it into a business that I think...
...unless he's trying to embarrass them by showing up at all their cocktail parties...
...Revolving Block Party Award goes to North House. Each week the scene of the Friday afternoon revelry shifts from the Master's residence to one of the three brick dorms. Noho's Weathered Suburban architecture and the itinerant character of the event contributes to a cocktail party atmosphere. This reporter paid a visit when the run wound up at the Master's residence. Plenty of food, not too crowded, lots of chairs to sit down on. Just follow the signs to the site of the part...