Everybody parties at the Olympics, but nobody parties like the Dutch.
Heineken House. From Games to Games, it’s the place to be, strobing with the national colors of The Netherlands — orange, orange and more orange. For Salt Lake City, the Dutch converted West Ridge Golf Course’s clubhouse in West Valley City into a hopping honky-tonk, celebrating the accomplishments of the country’s speed skaters at the Kearns oval.
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Two dozen countries had hospitality houses of their own. The Swiss took over Au Bon Appetit bistro. The Russians occupied a Holladay mansion, the Norwegians an old Park City schoolhouse. Canada Lodge was right on Salt Lake City’s Main Street.
For Salt Lake City attorney Chris Mancini, a trip to German House yielded a treasured image of "my 3-year-old son [Joey] decked out in his finest aloha shirt and hockey gloves, being picked up and held by a German speed skater, decked out in the gold medal she had just won."
Just another lifetime memory from the Olympics.
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