Suzy Doane and David Cohn have turned a former sports bar into the Grand Old Party Bar & Grill. GOLDWATER FOR PRESIDENT signs, NIXON NOW pants, and a guy in a donkey costume who will let you kick his padded butt (““for a small fee’’) add to the clubhouse atmosphere. Drink fast: next month the saloon will be converted into a piano bar, the memorabilia sold off. ““Except the Nixon pants,’’ says Doane.
Selwyn Schachat has relocated his African Art Warehouse downtown just for the confab. For sale: 400 carved elephants. So, Christian Coalition delegates from Alabama will be snapping up African art? ““We think we’ll sell them all.''
At Louie and Mousie’s, owner Rachel Shein held a contest to rechristen her ice-cream flavors. Hence Ronald Raisin, Phil Gramm Cracker and Forbes Flat Tax Fudge (17 percent butterfat). But Shein had to draw the line somewhere. Delegates won’t be sampling Clinton’s Flavor-of-the-Minute, Pro-Lifesavers, or Rocky Road to November.
