Trader Vic's articles from Time Magazine - General Tiki

TR Tiki Royale Member The Aloha Room in Beautiful Belmont, CA! Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 891	TR Tiki Royale Posted posted on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 11:30 PM On 2007-01-11 17:51, martiki wrote: July 21st, 1967: The maître d' at San Francisco's Trader Vic's restaurant was about to shut down for the night when somebody came up and said: "There's a little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he went out and found British Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 48, along with Partner Rudolf Nureyev, 28, and seven friends, all clamoring for some rum and Chinese goodies after a performance of the touring Royal Ballet. Two hours later, the merrymakers danced off into the night—and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn to be surprised. At 3 a.m. cops answered a call to turn off a noisy hippie party at a pad in Haight-Ashbury, chased the gang up to the rooftops, and beheld Rudi lying prone among the hippies on one roof, Dame Margot tucked away on an adjoining rooftop. That sort of ended the party, except for a trip to the station house, where Rudi screamed "You are all children!" as the photographers came swarming around—then back to work the next night, dancing Paradise Lost. This one is particularly good Martin. I relayed it to Mrs. Royale knowing that the man she works for knew both Vic Bergeron and Margot Fonteyn. Turns out he recalls this well... He actually took the crew to Vic's the night before and introduced them. Seems they couldn't get enough and went back the next night for more... He is also the one who got the call at 4am to come downtown and bail them out! Them's were the days... Aloha, :tiki:

On 2007-01-11 17:51, martiki wrote:

July 21st, 1967:

The maître d' at San Francisco's Trader Vic's restaurant was about to shut down for the night when somebody came up and said: "There's a little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he went out and found British Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 48, along with Partner Rudolf Nureyev, 28, and seven friends, all clamoring for some rum and Chinese goodies after a performance of the touring Royal Ballet. Two hours later, the merrymakers danced off into the night—and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn to be surprised. At 3 a.m. cops answered a call to turn off a noisy hippie party at a pad in Haight-Ashbury, chased the gang up to the rooftops, and beheld Rudi lying prone among the hippies on one roof, Dame Margot tucked away on an adjoining rooftop. That sort of ended the party, except for a trip to the station house, where Rudi screamed "You are all children!" as the photographers came swarming around—then back to work the next night, dancing Paradise Lost.

This one is particularly good Martin. I relayed it to Mrs. Royale knowing that the man she works for knew both Vic Bergeron and Margot Fonteyn.
Turns out he recalls this well... He actually took the crew to Vic's the night before and introduced them. Seems they couldn't get enough and went back the next night for more... He is also the one who got the call at 4am to come downtown and bail them out!
Them's were the days...

Aloha,
:tiki:

Post #278584 by Tiki Royale on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 11:30 PM