Recalling the Early Days of Business Consulting

I think longingly about the days before I retired from my career as a marketing consultant, which were punctuated by numerous trips to great business centers abroad: Berlin, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Geneva, Zurich, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and the spot featured here, London. These excursions normally arose when we took on a client in the States that had offices overseas, and someone needed to make a face-to-face presentation of some of the work we had done.  The enterprise that necessitated this visit, circa 1995, could have been 3M, Motorola, Unisys, or H-P; I can’t recall.

What I do remember is that my (rather large) colleague, as well as the guy who took the picture and I, had just finished dinner at a place that was walking distance from the famed Le Ho Fook’s, featured in the first verse of Warren Zevon’s iconic “Werewolves of London”:

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein

Good time for a photo.