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Date Posted: 02:56:44 12/07/02 Sat
Author: Ronhobbs
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Subject: Re: What do you think?
In reply to: Curiosity Lion 's message, "What do you think?" on 15:50:13 12/06/02 Fri

Private clubs of all kinds have been in existance for hundreds of years with one thing in mind, privacy, and the right to let certain people join and to keep the rest out. That is their right and the very reason they are a private club and not public.
My main experience with a private club is in my hometown of St.Petersburg, Florida. The club is the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. In 1985 I played there for 7 months. This club is strictly for the wealthy population of this city. Even being wealthy doesn't give you the privlage to join. You have to know a member, and it's still very hard to get in, no matter how much dough you have. This club has been here since the turn of the 20th century and is still there, giving their members the best food, entertainment and a place where they can go and not have to put up with people they don't care to put up with.
A woman cannot join this club. She can go there with her husband, father, brother, uncle or boyfriend but can't join. Now if her husband dies and has a lifetime membership, she can continue to come as his widow.
Working there we got to see how the rich folks live and have fun. We found that they have fun like the rest of us, but they have this air about them that you never see from the "regular" folks.
The first black member was given the right to join in the
early 80's, after our liberal rag, the St. Petersburg Times, ran front page items about their rules for weeks, about it being private. Duh! The black man was an assistant city manager for the city and after he joined the paper left the club alone. I don't know if they have any other black members, since I can't get in either.

The Masters in Augusta is very elite. If everybody could play there, it wouldn't be elite any longer, and wouldn't be the tournament they all want to win more than any other tournament.

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Re: What do you think? -- Z-Dr, 18:59:16 12/09/02 Mon
- Re: What do you think? -- Up to par Lion, 02:17:55 12/10/02 Tue
  - Re: What do you think? -- conserv00, 07:28:57 12/10/02 Tue
    - Re: What do you think? -- Elated Lion!!!!!!!!!, 02:37:12 12/11/02 Wed
      - Re: What do you think? -- Sage, smiling, 12:17:27 12/11/02 Wed
        Re: What do you think? -- conserv00, 07:22:13 12/12/02 Thu
        Re: What do you think? -- Sage, laughing, 11:41:31 12/13/02 Fri
        Re: What do you think? -- conserv00, 12:08:03 12/13/02 Fri