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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]
Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...
The Country Club District is an associated group of neighborhoods built along Ward Parkway by J.C. Nichols, which is just south of the Country Club Plaza and includes Sunset Hill, Brookside, Crestwood, and Mission Hills, Kansas.
The Jewel Box Lounge, also known as the Jewel Box, was a nightclub & lounge opened by John Tuccillo in 1948. Located on the historic Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri it was one of the earliest establishments in the area to feature drag queens and impersonators as entertainers.
San Jose. The Metropolitan University Club (1936–1990), created from merger of previous Metropolitan Social & Athletic Club (1936) and University Club of San Jose (1957), insolvent [54] The Sainte Claire Club (1895) [54] [55] The Silicon Valley Athletic Club (1981), until 2012 called the San Jose Athletic Club [54] [56]
The Royals returned to the Fall Classic in 2014 losing in the 7th Game to the San Francisco Giants with the tying run just 90 feet away. In 2015, they returned once more and this time defeated the New York Mets in 5 games. The Royals won Game 1 in extra innings, tying for the longest game in World Series history.
According to John Keay, the "Great Bath" of Mohenjo Daro in present-day Pakistan was the size of 'a modest municipal swimming pool', complete with stairs leading down to the water at each one of its ends. [1] The bath is housed inside a larger—more elaborate—building and was used for public bathing. [1]
[6] [7] In January 2008, the primary buildings of the museum—the residence and carriage house—closed for major renovations [8] of roofing, masonry, art glass, energy efficient windows, elevator, and HVAC. Since May 2014, the City of Kansas City and Missouri's Parks and Recreation Department operate and manage the Kansas City Museum. [9]