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The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note. Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and ...
The Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100-hectare) campground in Monte Rio, California. Founded in 1878, it belongs to a private gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, the Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world. [1] [2]
The Grove Play is an annual theatrical production written, produced and performed by and for Bohemian Club members, and staged outdoors in California at the Bohemian Grove each summer. In 1878, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco first took to the woods for a summer celebration that they called midsummer High Jinks. [1]
The Cremation of Care is an annual ritual production written, produced, and performed by and for members of the Bohemian Club. It is staged at the Bohemian Grove near Monte Rio, California, in front of a 40-foot tall image of an owl, at a small artificial lake amid a private old-growth grove of Redwood trees.
This list may not reflect recent changes. Bohemian Club * List of Bohemian Club members; B. Bohemian Grove; F. The Family (club) G.
Eventually, the original "bohemian" members were in the minority and the wealthy and powerful controlled the club. [15] [16] Club members who were established and successful, respectable family men, defined for themselves their own form of bohemianism, which included men who were bon vivants, sometime outdoorsmen, and appreciators of the arts. [12]
Its august and influential members frolic each year in the sylvan Bohemian Grove. Women cannot be members, but by court order they can work there — though only in areas inside what Gawker writer ...
The Bohemian Club (1872), which hosts the Bohemian Grove retreat; The Cercle de l'Union ("the French Club") (1905) [46] [47] The City Club of San Francisco (1930), until 1987 called the Pacific Stock Exchange Lunch Club [48] [49] The Concordia-Argonaut Club (1864) [50] [51] The Family (1901), founded by members of the Bohemian Club who left in ...