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William Francis Cody (1916 – 1978) was an influential desert modern architect working in Palm Springs during the peak of the Modern Architecture Movement. Like many of the architects during the mid-20th century, Cody designed almost anything Palm Springs allowed him to; houses, cluster housing, churches, offices, restaurants, schools, hotels, and club houses.
The Ottawa Club Baths (3,000 members) was raided in May 1976 by the police. [3] The facility in Toronto was one of four bathhouses raided on February 5, 1981, in a police action known as Operation Soap. [4] 3,000 men visited the San Francisco Club Baths every week before it closed down. [5]
The Lafayette Hotel and Club is a hotel in San Diego, California, United States, that opened July 1, 1946. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 2012. [2] [3] The Lafayette's original name was Imig Manor, owned by local entrepreneur Larry Imig. It was originally built at a cost of $2 million on El Cajon Boulevard.
Cagaloglu Hamami Luxuriating in a bathhouse was a stalwart of ancient Rome, where these first spas were the go-to spots for healing and relaxation. But there are still bathhouses all over the ...
The Cheetah's club in San Diego is a full nude club where no alcohol is served. It has achieved notoriety for having been frequented by some of the September 11 hijackers. The Clermont Lounge is Atlanta's first and longest continually operating strip club, opened in 1965, and boasts a completely female ownership.
The building was designated historic in 2009 by the City of San Diego Historical Resources Board. [28] [29] The La Jolla Cove Shuffleboard and Bridge Club, now the La Jolla Cove Bridge Club, is a designated nonprofit 501(c)4 organization that welcomes members and visitors to play duplicate bridge. It rents the space for weddings and other events.
The La Jolla Woman's Club is a women's club in a historic building in La Jolla, a neighborhood of San Diego, California.Designed and built by Irving Gill with assistance from his nephew Louis John Gill in 1914-1915, it is an important example of Gill's modern architectural style, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
He raced a 1927 Seagraves fire engine at the El Cajon Speedway, and he fired an old cannon after every score by the San Diego Chargers football team at all home games. [2] In the early 1970s, the Finns opened a second Mickie Finn's nightclub in Beverly Hills on Restaurant Row, in the new Los Angeles Emporium. The San Diego location closed in ...