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Musician, Playwright, and Painter Sam Andrew
of West Marin knew the TRIDENT
RESTAURANT (today's Horizon's) well. He was
Janis Joplin's guitar player for both her bands,
Big Brother & The Holding Company and Full Tilt
Boogie Band and The Trident was one of their
favorite psychedelic hangouts.
When writing a play about the "Counter Culture"
movement, Andrew wrote the following notes
about The Trident which he shared with
MarinNostalgia below:
“A guy came into the Trident with a roll of
Necco Wafers. You remember the candy? And
each wafer had a drop of blue acid on it. He
went around the Trident one morning giving one
to each person, waitresses, busboys, the
manager; who was then Skip Cutty, and all the
kitchen staff. The place was dosed big time and
as the lunch hour peaked so did the staff! One
waitress told me she was pouring coffee into a
cup and was tripping on how it undulated in the
cup. She kept pouring the coffee until the
customer started shouting at her as the coffee was overflowing from the cup
to the saucer and on to the table as the waitress stared in wonder of it all!
Also at the Trident, ‘windowpane’ was being passed around the kitchen. The
two cold-side cooks, the guys that made salads and sandwiches as opposed
to guys on the hot side that made steaks and hot dishes, decided to share a
hit. So they put it on the cutting board in front of the refrigerated containers
that held ample portions of ambrosia, green and mixed salads, to cut it in
half. As the chef's knife cut through the gelatin of window pane the two
halves popped out of sight. They froze looking at each other for a second
and then started laughing. Later that afternoon, a woman customer was so
enthusiastic about the deliciousness of her salad that the maitre d’ thought
maybe she was a bit tipsy."
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