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The Francisca Club is a women's only private social club in San Francisco, California. It is apparently the oldest private women's club surviving in San Francisco [1] and has been in its clubhouse since the 1920s. [2] It had typically had a membership of around 500; [2] however, recently this has declined to closer to 400. [1]
The Bohemian Club was founded in San Francisco in 1872 as a journalists' social group, [1] but it grew to become a refuge for some of the most powerful men in American business and politics. The similarly august California Club was founded in Los Angeles in 1888 when "at least 12 of the 125 founding members were Jews."
In the 1980s, the club discussed but ultimately declined merging with the nearby Olympic Club, a then all-male athletic organization. [ 5 ] In 2004, while other women's club had declining membership in San Francisco, the Metropolitan was the largest partly through offering members incentives to recruit. [ 6 ]
This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
However, in August 2007, it once again became the Condor Club, once more featuring go-go dancers. The current Condor Club is branded as "San Francisco's Original Gentlemen's Club." [12] In 2022 the Condor Club was added to the San Francisco Legacy Business registry, a program aimed at supporting historic businesses in the city. [2]
The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854).
The Deaf Club was a notable music venue located on Valencia Street in San Francisco which remained open for an 18-month period. Its main attraction was punk music.The name comes from the fact the building it was in originally began as a deaf people's clubhouse in the 1930s.
715 Harrison is a nightclub venue located in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco, California, known mostly for hosting Club X since 1989 and previously City Nights from 1985 to 2020. The club is designated by San Francisco as a legacy business and is one of the few venues in the Bay Area consistently open to guests above 18 years of age ...