Restricted Clubs

The Mortimer Club. Like duh!

^ Well yeah, but do these places exist in real life anymore? I have a hard time as it is, believing a Mortimer Club type place would even exist in the 80s.

I work in one of the most upscale clubs you've seen. However, the only color they care about is green.

For a $1,000/month you get...Get ready... TO BE A MEMBER.

If you want to use a function room. You pay. Eat at the club? You pay. A lousy cup of coffee is three dollars and they add a surcharge to that. You wanna use the pool, health club? You pay $50/day. EVERYTHING you do is extra.

You pay $150/month for us to wash your gym clothes.

The only reasonable thing is the guest rooms. They are only $100/night, and they would be similar to a Westin Hotel. But we only have two dozen and they aren't used because our members dogs have nicer dog houses.

It's a very nice place, don't get me wrong, but I cannot believe the huge amounts of money people pay out JUST to belong.

The membership is all varied, yes, there are some who prefer "only their kind" be in, but that's rare. At one time it was a gentleman's only club and some members still feel it should be that.

Truly it epitomizes the phrase, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." I once asked the hosted, who's been there since her teens and is now almost 60 years old, about the prices of menu items. She said, "In all my years I've worked here, not one person has ever asked about the price."

How you get in is simple, a member that is in, has to put you up for membership. If that's approved you are in a 90 day trial then they vote whether or not to admit you. And while they had a few arguments over things like "We can't have a news anchor here, he's showbiz" (he was admitted), in the end it simply boils down to having the cash to pay your bills.

If you have to ask, then you're not running in the appropriate circles.

The New York Athletic Club. To get in, you have to be recommended by another member.

What about this one?

The Everglades

The Palm Beach B&T

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I live in a very ethnic neighborhood in NYC and there's all these private clubs for various Greek/Cypriot etc. I always wonder what goes on in there. I also wonder if I could buy one and start a gay sex club.

R9 You should!

[quote] The only reasonable thing is the guest rooms. They are only $100/night, and they would be similar to a Westin Hotel.

BUT DO THEY HAVE SHAMPOO FOR POCs?

[quote]I live in a very ethnic neighborhood in NYC I also wonder if I could buy one and start a gay sex club.

The mafia that owns the East Side Club would have you shut down by the end of the week.

Dis guy don’t dink there are private clubs in New Yawk? Fuhgeddaboutit.

London is full of them.

When you say restricted..you mean no minorities??? They have a gay club like that in the Port Richmond area of Philadelphia. Mostly closeted self hating trolls. I'll pass.

I recommend the Jonathan Club In Los Angeles - there is a downtown location and a Santa Monica beach location.

Why would anyone want to go to a place like that?

R17 Herd instinc, wanting to be surrounded by like minded men, because it's always mens clubs, clandestine business transactions, all sorts of reasons.

I work at a women only health club.

The Colony Club and the River Club. Well there are a handful of Jews in there by now, but very WASPy Jews if you know what I mean.

There’s one in Hobe Sound FL but I forget the name.

And of course the two PB ones mentioned above.

Which ones still restrict blacks?