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Man's Country was a chain of bathhouses and private clubs for gay men in Chicago and New York City. Man's Country/Chicago opened at 5015–5017 North Clark Street in Chicago on September 19, 1973, and held the title of Chicago's longest-running gay bathhouse when it closed in 2017. [1] [2] [3]
The Club was founded in 1965 by John "Jack" W. Campbell (born 1932) and two other investors who paid $15,000 to buy a closed Finnish bath house in Cleveland, Ohio. Campbell wanted to provide cleaner, brighter amenities that were a contrast to the dark, dirty environment that existed previously. [2]
Admission was five dollars and the club offered free juice and water to dancers. In the middle floor is where DJ Knuckles began to experiment with editing disco breaks on a reel-to-tape recorder. This mixing would soon become the beginnings of the house music genre. [5] The Warehouse became a hub for the people of Chicago, specifically black ...
The Caxton Club (1895) The Chicago Athletic Association (1890–2007), insolvent [137] The Chicago Club (1869) Chicago Yacht Club; The Cliff Dwellers Club (1907) [138] The Covenant Club; Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago; Lake Shore Athletic Club (1927–1977) The Metropolitan Club; The Mid America Club; The Quadrangle Club (1893) The Racquet Club ...
The Rainier Club is a private club in Seattle, Washington; it has been referred to as "Seattle's preeminent private club." [3] [4] Its clubhouse building, completed in 1904, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was founded in 1888 in what was then the Washington Territory (statehood came the following year). As of 2008, the ...
The basement has housed a series of bars, including an after hours venue known officially as the Casino, and unofficially as "Madame Peabody’s Dancing Academy for Young Ladies" [45] and, later the Catwalk (1994–2005), [46] a venue friendly to the S&M crowd. Club Heaven, an upscale nightclub, has occupied the space since 2006. [47]
Neighbours Nightclub is an LGBTQ-friendly dance club on Seattle's Capitol Hill. [2] Drag is a regular feature. [3]Lonely Planet said in 2021: "Neighbours is an always-packed dance factory that seems to attract as many straight folks as LGBTIQ+ ones these days, but is still a reliable good time if you're eager to lose yourself in some dance music with the bass turned up high."
Shelley Bauman was born in Chicago on July 23, 1947. [1] She studied dance there until she was 16, at which time she became a runaway due to family tension. [2] She performed striptease in Chicago, Hawaii, and Florida, moving to Rainier Valley, Seattle, in 1968 to continue her profession there. [2] She quit dancing after the Bastille Day ...