Downtown mob gets into the $20 bottomless cups

By Malaika Fraley, STAFF WRITER

SAN MATEO -- They were shamelessly flirting in a copy shop, gulping down Merlot inside a neighborhood cleaners and shaking their stuff outside a Scandinavian furniture store.
Music, laughter and gallons of wine poured throughout downtown San Mateo on Friday night at the Eighth Annual Wine Walk.

Just one hour into the festivities the Downtown San Mateo Association had sold nearly

2,000 of the souvenir glasses that, for a $20 fee, earned drinkers wine and appetizers at businesses on and around B Street and Second through Fifth avenues.

People from throughout the Peninsula came by foot, Caltrain and mini-van to attend the event, which gives business owners the opportunity to draw in faces that might normally pass by. The money raised goes to the Downtown San Mateo Association, a coalition of businesses owners working to promote and improve downtown activity.

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