LION Coffee is already a fixture on Merchant Street, and what once was a little kiosk in the Grosvenor Center courtyard is now the full on Vienna Coffee House in the Dillingham Transportation Building, complete with outdoor seating. Even Heidi's next door is getting into the act with a large "Expresso" sign in its window. And soon to spring up will be the Wall Street Cafe, where McDonald's is about to serve up its last Arch Deluxe and a new Big Mac will appear. That's as in Macintosh. The Wall Street Cafe will be a computer-laden coffee shop similar in concept to the Internet C@fe in Kapahulu, and in fact, Internet C@fe owner Michael Feeney is V.P. of Internet Operations for the Wall Street Cafe, so named because it hopes to attract stockbrokers and interested investors who can check on their holdings and other business news while enjoying a cup of java and a roll. Meanwhile, in the space at Queen and Alakea recently deserted by Jack in the Box, word is that Starbucks may open its first full-fledged Honolulu shop there. With all those nervy moves going on, lots of coffee may come in handy ...
WHEN Sharon Watase signed up for cellular service with Honolulu Cellular in June, she was automatically entered in an "Olympic Games Getaway Sweepstakes." She thought nothing about it at the time, and when she got a notification in the mail, she shoved it aside, thinking it was one of those "You may already have won $1 million" come-ons from Publisher's Clearinghouse. It wasn't until the dogged Honolulu Cellular folks tracked down her husband and convinced him she'd won that she believed it. The result: The two were flown to Atlanta where seats to volleyball, baseball and track and field awaited them. They also won a bunch of Olympic merchandise. Sharon Watase - Another U.S. Olympic winner ...FRIENDS of former isle resident Alfred Goldman, the millionaire shopping cart heir who once owned the old Kaiser Estate in Portlock, were shocked to read he's been accused in Oklahoma of trafficking in cocaine, a charge that carries a possible punishment of life in prison. Bad luck continues to dog the Goldmans. Alfred's brother Monte committed suicide last year after years of personal and financial battles ... Charlie and Lucy Wedemeyer will appear at Barnes & Noble in Kahala Mall to sign copies of their book, "Charlie's Victory," about the former Punahou and Michigan State quarterback's long struggle with ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. In addition, Arthur Suehiro will join them to sign copies of "Honolulu Stadium - Where Hawaii Played." An added nostalgic touch will be the passing out of boiled peanuts in brown paper bags, synonymous with the old stadium ...
PORTLOCK'S Duane Walker is probably ruing the day he pulled practical jokes on a certain boutique real estate exec. The Queen's Hospital nursing director returned home the other night to find a full truck load of horse manure on his front lawn with a sign saying, "Happy birthday, Duane. This pile's for you." Quipped Walker, "Ever tried to sweep up dried horse manure in the wind?" But think of how great his garden will look, once his neighbors get wind of it ...
