Their fathers and grandfathers drank beneath a framed picture of Jim Thorpe in a dark Nevins Street tavern, the Wigwam.
I was escorted past a rope line where anxious club kids waited for the chance to enter and sip $10 drinks beneath lush motion pictures of smiling Nauruan children, swaying palms and turquoise waves.
While people flock to see cherry trees in many places around the world today, millions of families, friends, tourists and photographers head out to Japan's parks and gardens to drink sake beneath the ephemeral blooms and host picnics and parties that last into the night.
"Good," he said, and turned around to go--except one of the guys I was sitting with had left his drink lying beneath his seat, and the glass had fallen over, and it spilled a little, and the seepage from the spill crept amoeba-like along the pontoons of the sun-chair and coated the deck's surface in a creepy Kool-Aid-looking goo.
"The inspector encouraged the operator to clean the dust, or at least avoid storing or serving open drinks directly beneath it — to avoid the dust from falling into the drinks of their bar patrons".
Miles from a road on a lazy raft trip through the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho, friends and I pulled hungry trout from the Middle Fork of the Salmon River until our casting arms grew weary, then soaked those arms in campside hot springs and drank beer beneath stars undimmed by city lights.
It had long been the stuff of bar-stool fantasies: a beer pipeline that could funnel the staple drink of Belgium beneath the cobbled streets and gothic houses of Bruges.
Look around you, at the quiet, the introverted, the people in your office who don't laugh at every bawdy joke or cough up for cans of lager on a Friday afternoon or stick around after working hours to drink the sun beneath the horizon.
For the price of a drink, you can linger beneath the glass dome of the dim, palmy lobby and conjure up the image of Carnegie strutting up one of the red-carpeted twin staircases.
