Theme: Whistle for the Thistle

Location: Foosball Palace + Sky Palace, San Francisco

Year: 2000

Art: Paul McGhee

Invite backstory:

We doubled-down on the ‘Madness’ theme here with the ‘Son of Sam’ font, the traced Artichoke lady to give a blurred out-of-control feel and by using language like ‘scarf scrum’ which as you will see becomes the theme for Artichoke Madness #6.

We again made each invite unique by manually tracing each invite with a crayon over a sand-paper template.

Party Highlights

This party was the year I moved into the Spectacular Sky Palace, one building over from the Foosball Palace. Halfway through the party we gathered everyone up, asked them to grab the food, and paraded to the Sky Palace behind a bagpipe player. We also brought the Skybar, which my brother Tim had set up to fit inside the Bay Window in 3 positions - stool position, chair position and, most importantly, sushi position (picture below).

It was a bold move and a great party - I remember my cousin Jamie was in town for the party and was somewhat dazed at the ambition as he carried one side of the Skybar to the Sky palace.

This was the year Giant’s stadium opened and it was 3 blocks away so we added Ballpark Tours to the party agenda.

The Kids party was growing every year as my friends started having children, the theme at AM5 was 'Dinosaurs’