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Delaire is a suburban community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. [ 1 ] Delaire is located on a hilltop overlooking the Delaware River northeast of Bellefonte [ 2 ] between U.S. Route 13 Business (Philadelphia Pike) and U.S. Route 13 . [ 3 ]
A country club is a privately-owned club, [1] often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.
Delaire may refer to: Delaire, Delaware, an unincorporated community; Bernard Delaire (1899-2007), French naval veteran of the First World War;
The Country Club in 1913 The Country Club in 1913 William Howard Taft at the 1913 U.S. Open Fred McLeod and Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open. The Country Club, located in Brookline, Massachusetts, is the oldest golf-oriented country club in the United States. [1] (The Philadelphia Cricket Club, founded in 1854, was the first country club for ...
While the club had once offered a membership discount to members of Congress, this had been discontinued in the 1970s, and the club's high initiation fees (then over $100,000) and long waiting list dissuaded most from joining. [9] By 2011, it was said that zero members of Congress numbered amongst its members.
Conquistadores del Cielo (Spanish for "Conquerors of the Sky") is a secretive club of high-level airline and aerospace industry executives. The Conquistadores del Cielo are still in existence today, [1] stating that they exist "To develop and promote interest in aerospace activities.
Salem Country Club is a private country club in Peabody, Massachusetts. The club's early history was unstable. In the late 19th- and early 20th century, the club moved between four locations in Salem and Peabody. In 1925, the club made its final move to western Peabody converting a territory called Sanders Farm into an 18-hole golf course.
Hillcrest was established in the early days of the movie industry in Hollywood, when Jews were not permitted to join non-Jewish country clubs.In An Empire of Their Own, Neal Gabler described charity dinners of the 1930s at the all-Jewish club, where movie moguls would gather and outbid one-another with gifts to the United Jewish Welfare Fund and other Jewish causes.