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That is the whole point.I stretched to the boathouse in that mindset.
I mean, they weren't any easier, but they just felt more manageable to me.And even outside the boathouse, when I was just getting ready for exams that were coming up, or had to write a big termpaper, I was noticing that the stress I felt leading up to those was just a little bit more manageable.
And the fellow standing up in front started describing what was going to happen.Come down to the boathouse, and here's what it is.They were all new people.
But I noticed that there was something inside me that was beginning to change a little bit.Every time I went to the boathouse for practice, our workouts seemed just a little bit easier.I mean, they weren't any easier, but they just felt more manageable to me.
But they did exist, ladies and gentlemen, and no one could take the auction.So I ended up crawling to the Central Park Boathouse, where the auction was taking place.And I sat in the chair by the podium, and the adrenaline surge that you get any time that you're about to get on stage came, but I still felt so badly
on the same night--and I remembered that night. It was dead calm here in Seattle while the winds were blowing 118 plus over there, okay, dead calm. And these current of strong windscame out here destroyed the--there was a boathouse there--it destroyed the boathouse there, all kinds of fun things, power outages all out here. Well, why, why? Well, look at the terrain.Here's a better map of the terrain. The shade, the dark shade is the high stuff and the less high is by this model appearance. Can you see that there's a weakness here in the mountains,
So now we have a word for "sailboat" and "vessel." And "thenis," which is "captain." Next, "boat," which is different from "sailboat," whichis different from "vessel." That was "chaesich." And we also have "chisich," "boathouse," which is different from "marina." And "chesich," "boater," which is different from "sailor,"which is different from "captain," which is different from "mariner." Then it goes even further.
considered the last of its kind, which was a real dive out on the Pier, and I think that, that, that's part of what built the character, so I'm glad you mentioned that. Some of theother places, prior to The Boathouse, probably the most popular restaurant on the Pier was called Moby's Dock.And Moby's Dock was out just past where the ballroom was, if you can picture where the ballroom was, or if you know the Pier today, it was out just beyond where the bumper cars
across the entire Pier, and people still today, you know, when they come to the Pier, they, they say this place used to smell like homemade potato chips. Things that we would love tosee come back. Before The Boathouse was-it was The Boathouse, it was for 30 years O. J. Bennett's Seafood Grotto. Originally, it was a place where they had an outdoor patio that overlooked the oceanand, and they had card games going out on the patio.
And this is the beautiful thing.I would just show up, and it was like, hey, where's practice and what time do I have to be at the boathouse?
more about the Pier than at least anyone that I've met. His name's James Harris, or Jim Harris, and he's the Pier historian for the Santa Monica Pier Restoration Corporation.He's been a fixture on the Pier since 1989, and his first job on the Pier was tending bar at a little dive called The Boathouse Restaurant, which is where Bubba Gump is today,and so the Pier has, has a long, long history of various locations. He's the historian for the Pier, but he's also a writer, a playwright and his writing credits include the stage
And it's really been a pleasure to be a part of this centennial celebration and to be able to share the history with people in, in this book, Santa Monica Pier: A Century on theLast Great Pleasure Pier. Like I said then, and like Heath said, I began as a bartender at The Boathouse, and when you're a bartender you learn early on that the best skill thatyou have to make yourself money is your listening skills. And so, I became a very good listener and I found an extra benebit-, benefit.
that I used to get as a bartender, and I've included in the book, in the back of the book, there's a section called "Pier Icons," --and a lot of these are the places that I heard so much about. I was lucky enough to work in one of them for, for several years before it, it disappeared, too. The Boathouse wasconsidered the last of its kind, which was a real dive out on the Pier, and I think that, that, that's part of what built the character, so I'm glad you mentioned that. Some of the
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