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Golden Gate Corkscrew Collectors
Past Events

Hello San Francisco Bay Area & West Coast Corkscrew Collectors!

Founded in November 1999

Not technically a branch of the Canadian Corkscrew Collectors Club, nor of any other corkscrew collectors' club, but with similar goals, the Golden Gate Corkscrew Collectors (GGCC) was formed and has enjoyed a number of dinner and extended week end meetings for San Francisco Bay area corkscrew collectors. Attendance is not exclusive to SF bay area collectors, but open to anyone serious about collecting corkscrews. All members of the CCCC or any other corkscrew collectors' clubs are welcome to attend if wishing to visit northern California. We have no membership fees, nor officers. The cost for attending our events is always charged at cost.

Our inaugural meeting on November 5th, 1999 was at Jack's Restaurant in San Francisco. See details of that and consequent meetings below in 'GGCC Past Events'.

Take note of the announced dates and brief details for future meetings. See 'Future Events' just below.
Full details will be forthcoming.

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Our next meeting will be in San Mateo, Ca in April 2008

Hosted by Bob Bortfeld. Email Bob at:

sbortfeld@aol.com
Details will be announced soon on the group's Yahoo web pages. See below...

Important Announcement!

The GGCC has a new central web site for announcements and archives for all of its activities. It is a Yahoo Group where all interested, including hosts, former and future attendees can post messages, suggestions, comments and announcements related to our group. Please join the group at your earliest convenience, so you can receive important messages related to the GGCC.

Click on the link immediately below. When you arrive at the GGCC Yahoo Group page, click on the 'join' button near the upper right of your window, and that will take you to the membership preferences page. It's best to leave the default settings as they are for receiving mail, so you can get timely announcements. If you are not already a Yahoo member, it's free and easy to create a username and password.

New GGCC Yahoo Group!
This will be GGCC Central, where all up to date announcements will be posted in
the future. Hosts will be posting timely information for group events.

Recent Events

2007..At Filoli in San Mateo, hosted by Fred & Sue O'Leary

2006...In Livermore, hosted by Bob Adamski

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November 2005 Meeting in Salinas, California
Hosted by Bill & Edie Eyres

Our activities included a buy, sell, trade w/wine & Champagne at the Eyres'
lovely home in Prunedale, followed by a Buffet luncheon at the Eyres'.

Later in the afternoon a tour at the Steinbeck Center in Salinas

www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html

Then a wine tasting at the Taste of Monterey, next to the Steinbeck Center and featuring Monterey County wines

In the evening, a dinner meeting at the Hullabaloo Restaurant in Salinas.

Friday, May 13, 2005

Anchor Brewing
San Francisco, Ca

Anchor Brewing's current brewery on Potrero Hill

Ed Bystran, with the help of some friends, hosted this memorable meeting at Anchor Brewing, San Francisco's oldest brewery operating under the same name, since 1896. We couldn't have found a better historic venue in the city than this one. Anchor not only boasts a great history, but produces some of the best lagers and ales today. We enjoyed a private tour of the brewery, followed with our buy/sell/trade event in the tap room, then capped the evening with a fine catered dinner served with some of Anchor's best ales and beers, including its famous Steam Beer. The theme for the 'show & tell' feature of the meeting was, appropriately 'brewery advertising corkscrews'. About 40 people attended, with some visiting from as far away as Tennessee and British Columbia.

Click on sign above to visit Anchor Brewing's interesting web site

Anchor's original San Francisco brewery in the 19th Century

April 3 & 4, 2004

Adventure in West Marin - Tomales Bay

Our weekend began with a sumptuous picnic & barbecue at Hog Island Oyster Company in the charming bay shore town of Marshall...raw & barbecued oysters, barbecued chicken & sausage, steamed clams, good bread, local cheeses & pale ale on tap...yumm! Our meeting & dinner was held at the lovely Marconi Conference Center, a California State Park facility also in Marshall, overlooking beautiful Tomales Bay. All enjoyed our traditional 'show & tell' featuring fancy handled corkscrews, & the 'buy-sell-trade'. Members stayed the night in peaceful comfort at the Marconi Center, rising early the following morning for breakfast, then moving on to San Anselmo for an open house at Vintage Antiques where hundreds of corkscrews from the Kirk collection were freed from their storage boxes & put on sale for the first time in years.

Hog Island Oyster Co. - G.Marconi's Wireless Station (Early 20th Cent.) - Mud Flats, Tomales Bay

Click on images above for larger views

This meeting was hosted by GGCC co-founders Dean Walters & Fred O'Leary

Want to host a future GGCC meeting event?

Think about a plan--where & when you would like to have it in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then volunteer at the next meeting with a short proposal during our discussion time. We are trying to plan well in advance for the best possible meetings. Single hosts or co-hosting welcome. You can always count on the former hosts for advice & tips on planning your event.

Check this out!

More GGCC Past Events
Photos & descriptions of our past meetings

Want to join us?

To express your interest in attending future meetings of the GGCC, please contact either:

Dean Walters
Tel (415) 459-6393
email: dean.w@comcast.net

Fred O'Leary
Tel (408) 996-3101 Fax (408) 255-0740
email: fsoleary@comcast.net

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