A high tea with the theme of friendship took place Friday afternoon, Oct. 22, at Merrill Gardens at Admiral Heights. Pictured left to right are Joyce Entus, who owned the Beach Boiler before it became Salty's, Quy Tasak, hairdresser with Shear Magic Stlying on the third floor above Merrill Gardens, and brothers Rudolph and Dan Martinez, retired longshoremen. Rudolph is a resident, and has lived in West Seattle for over 50 years. Playing the harp is professional musician Susan McLain with Greensleaves of West Seattle.
A high tea with the theme of friendship took place Friday afternoon, Oct. 22, at Merrill Gardens at Admiral Heights, 2326 California Ave. SW. The lobby was crowded with tables and chairs filled with residents, family and guests, all nibbling on triangular sweets and sipping tea with the attentive staff on the ready, armed with thermoses of hot water. West Seattle harpist Susan McLain with Greensleaves supplied the elegant background music.
Lee Ann Tucker Therriault, Community Relations Director, read a poem about friendship to the attendees, with the following quote by Anais Nin, “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
The West Seattle Herald's own Georgie Kunkel was greeting her friends at various tables.
Sharing a table with three gentlemen was new resident Joyce Entus, transplanted from her Alki condo. She is the former owner of the Beach Broiler, the restaurant on Alki she owned for 28 years before selling it to Gerry and Kathy Kingen in 1985 who turned it into Salty's.
"I worked 8 days a week, 25 hours a day,' Entus recalled. "I didn't cook. I had a chef from Sweden. I don't want to talk about it too much. I get very sentimental."
