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The Richmond Avenue Entertainment District, commonly known as the Richmond Strip, is an entertainment district along Richmond Avenue in western/southwestern Houston, Texas. It was especially popular in the 1990s, but it later declined as a partygoing destination in favor of other areas of town, such as Washington Avenue .
The Houston Club is a private members' club in Houston, Texas. The club is managed by Inspired. The club is managed by Inspired. The club has occupied six locations, the Mason Building (1894–1904), the Chronicle Building (1909–1923), the Chamber of Commerce Building I (1923–1930), the Chamber of Commerce Building II (1930–1955), the ...
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Entrance to the Royal Oaks Country Club. Royal Oaks Country Club is a country club and subdivision in Houston, Texas, United States, in the Alief community. The country club is located at 2910 Royal Oaks Club Drive, [1] 8 miles (13 km) west of The Galleria. [2] Sunrise Colony Company developed Royal Oaks out of the former Andrau Airpark property.
The City of Houston purchased the Houston Executive Club in 1972 and renamed it the Gus Wortham Golf Course. [2] Claudia Feldman of the Houston Chronicle said that in the 1960s Tanglewood residents mainly went to Houston Country Club exclusively, and that this was an example of the community's "clubby atmosphere".
The Briar Club is a country club in Houston, Texas. It is located in the River Oaks area, [1] at the corner of Westheimer Road and Timmons Lane. The club was founded in 1949 and is member owned. It is between The Galleria and Downtown Houston. [2] As of 2004 it has 1,100 members. [3] As of 2023 the club has 1300 equity members and is now on a ...
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According to a 1962 Anti-Defamation League survey of 803 country clubs, 224 were found to be non-discriminatory, while among the predominantly Christian clubs, 89 had quotas on the number of Jewish members and 416 admitted no Jews, [1] though the Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted that social club discrimination was "in retreat" by the mid-1960s. [6]