San Francisco 2000
Concert officially opened for business on the 1st of January 2000 and in order to get the new global team together, a team meeting was organised for early February in San Francisco, where Global Accounts - Technology - Pacific Accounts is Headquartered.
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It was really cheap, honest! (3.5Mb) |
So, off we went. I travelled out to SF with my colleague, Philippa who worked on the same account. On arrival at SFO, we bumped into Huw James, a former colleague in BT who was now risking life and limb in incurring expenses after BT had introduced a General Manager sign off procedure if you needed a box of paperclips. Hence this video.
Being a generous sort of a Welshman, Huw gave us a lift to the Hotel in San Francisco. Rather than chose one of the Hiltons, Sheratons or $10 Travel Inns, colleague John Duggan sent us off to "The Mansions" which was a San Francisco institution. Now sadly closed, I've never seen anything like it. All the rooms are unique, and Philippa got to stay in the room favoured by John Kennedy Jr when he was in town. I got the haunted room in the attic, read into that what you will.
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The Mansion, I think. |
Mysterious and ooky.... |
Hotel Parrot doing its rounds |
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Tasteful corridor art. |
The haunted room. The radio.. |
...turns itself on and off. |
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Not haunted, just evil! |
Philippa and JFK Jnr's Room |
Philippa and JFK Jnr's Room |
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Antiques Roadshow visits... |
...the Mansion Pig Museum... |
...presented by Ms Critchley! |
We did actually spend two days of hard slog doing account planning sessions, but the photo's were rather dull. Duller, then. Bob took us all out for dinner to Sausilito, which involved a ferry ride across the bay.
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Yes! First Day over with! (Tim, Bob & Philippa) |
Tim McCann, Philippa Critchley, Bob Kustel, Steve Molyneux |
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Goodbye office..... |
....hello second greatest bridge in the world! |
It wasn't all internal stuff, we did take the opportunity to make a few client visits...
including these chaps.