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A riotous gentlemen's club back in the 1890s, the Pelican was that happy era's equivalent to the Drones. Galahad Threepwood and Uncle Fred were both prominent and popular members; others include "Dogface" Weeks, champion liar, and Galahad's friends "Plug" Basham and "Puffy" Benger. The club was a real gentlemen's club of the era from 1887–1892.
A few American gentlemen's clubs maintain separate "city" and "country" clubhouses, essentially functioning as both a traditional gentlemen's club in one location and a country club in another: the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee, [6] the New York Athletic Club in New York City, the Union League of Philadelphia ...
A gentlemen's club is a private social club of a type originally established by old boy networks, typically from Britain's upper classes from the 17th century onwards. Many countries outside Britain have prominent gentlemen's clubs, mostly those associated with the British Empire such as the Royal Society in London set up in 1660. The idea ...
Key West’s 10-day Fantasy Fest masking and costuming festival gets underway Friday, Oct. 21, with a full slate of events, the first full festival since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
Occidental Private Club – The Blue Lotus by Hergé; Ol' Souris – Transformice; The Old Familiar – The World's End (2013): The second of 12 pubs on the "golden mile" pub crawl; The Old Haunt – Castle; The Old Phoenix – A Midsummer Tempest; The Old Pink Dog – So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Candy Queen's Castle, from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake; Castle Duckula, the home of Count Duckula; The Crystal Castle, from the TV series She-Ra: Princess of Power; Castle Grayskull, from the He-Man Masters of the Universe cartoon series
The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentlemen's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as 1893's "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter". It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (though this is never explained in the original stories) and was co-founded by Sherlock's indolent ...
The Newport Reading Room (also known as The Reading Room), founded in 1854, is a gentlemen's club located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Its primary building features an actual book reading room. The Spouting Rock Beach Association, which owns the famed Bailey's Beach, has been reported to own the building. [1]