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It was an on-premises heterosexual swingers' club, open Monday to Sunday from eight p.m. until the last person left. Saturday night was for couples only. In 2006, Plato's Repeat closed, The Fort Lauderdale building reopened in 2016 as a gay men's sex club under the name "321 Slammer", keeping the same bring-your-own format. [17]
Slammers was founded by brothers Walid and Ziad Khoury in 1994. [1] [2] As of 2020, the club has won 17 national championships and become one of the most successful youth clubs in the United States. [3] Slammers won the ECNL Girls Overall Club Championship in 2011–12, 2015–16, [4] 2018–19, 2020–21, [5] [6] and 2022–23. [7]
The Rowdies and the original Fort Lauderdale Strikers first met in an indoor friendly on February 27, 1977 [29] after the Miami Toros had moved to Fort Lauderdale and changed their name. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] It was around the time of their first outdoor meeting on May 7, 1977, that the term "Florida Derby" first appeared in local media reports. [ 4 ]
The South Florida Outlaws chapter relocated to Fort Lauderdale after a campaign of police harassment forced them out of Palm Beach County. [1] [5] The chapter was headquartered from a clubhouse located in an unincorporated neighborhood southwest of Fort Lauderdale and had approximately 200 members and associates at its peak. [6]
In January 1985, thirteen sites were considered for a proposed Broward County Convention Center. One of the leading sites was a 25-acre (1,100,000 sq ft; 100,000 m 2) parcel that included a 15-acre (650,000 sq ft; 61,000 m 2) trailer park near Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport at U.S. 1 and Northwest 10th Street.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers were an American professional soccer team based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida founded in 2006, that last played in the North American Soccer League (NASL), the second tier of the American soccer pyramid in 2016. The majority of their home games were played in Lockhart Stadium.
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Frank and Ivy Stranahan, founding pioneers of Fort Lauderdale and the first residents of Las Olas Boulevard. Their trading post Stranahan House is located between the boulevard and New River. Ivy established the first public school in Ft. Lauderdale and later donated the land which would eventually become Stranahan High School. [7]