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A few fun notes about Bucks (I worked there in my last years in school and the first few years afterwards) Jamis's son Tyler won The Amazing Race. When Tyler
by mikeryan 16y ago
A few fun notes about Bucks (I worked there in my last years in school and the first few years afterwards)
Jamis's son Tyler won The Amazing Race. When Tyler was graduating high school he wanted to go to Stanford but was having trouble getting in so Jamis rented a billboard on 101 to pump him to the admissions folks (he ended up at UCSC) http://tylermacniven.com/ http://tylermacniven.com/ Tyler is an interesting guy in his own right.
One year the Village Pub in Woodside was being remodeled so on April 1st Jamis put a "future home of the Woodside Hooters" sign (with the real Hooters logo) on the outside. The town freaked out (you have to know the town of Woodside to appreciate this)
Jamis put together the Sand Hill Road Sandbox Derby one year. The rules were pretty much just that your vehicle needed to be gravity powered and had to have brakes. They then lined the sides of Sand Hill with hay bales and sent these home made contraptions down it. The winner was built by some sort of NASA team and looked like an extended tear drop - it flew. Last I checked it was still on the wall at Bucks. Other entries was one made out of bread by Le Boulanger and one made out of a bed including boxspring and mattress with bicycle wheels (which almost won)
Bucks' walls are covered with different collected pieces of crap on the walls. Some are real and some are bullshit (The broken James McEnroe racket from Wimbledon is a Billy Jean King model racket?). In the back by the restroom there's a reply from the USSR on an inquiry from Jamis on purchasing Lenin's body . Jamis's wife Margret wanted a new car one year and had to keep a special account off the books so Jamis wouldn't spend her car money on something like an actual Cosmonaut space suit ($30,000 - its on the ceiling).