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There used to be 'sportsman's' clubs, ham radio clubs, sailing clubs, hiking clubs, bowling leagues, search-and-rescue, jeep clubs etc that have to an unfortuna
by phobosanomaly 6y ago
There used to be 'sportsman's' clubs, ham radio clubs, sailing clubs, hiking clubs, bowling leagues, search-and-rescue, jeep clubs etc that have to an unfortunate degree just faded away only to be replaced by meetup groups that just seem to be trying a little...too...hard....
Fraternal organizations, hell, that's what they're for! Men of 30 and up to get together and drink beer and tell war stories.
It's not weird and anachronistic at all!
- SamPatt 6y agoThose clubs still exist. I'm in a table tennis league and ham radio club, or at least I was before COVID when my state effectively outlawed them.
- jkepler 6y agoWait, but you can still radio the folks I'm your ham club, right? Or has government overreach stretched to new lows?
- keenmaster 6y agoI want the old Viennese/Parisian/Arabian intellectual cafe and salon clubs to come back. I would join one in a heartbeat.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoMy nostalgia is for Ed Ricketts' version of that at Pacific Biological Laboratories in Monterey. Sort of a low-brow early California take on it. "The lab became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and writers, including Bruce Ariss, Joseph Campbell, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Lincoln Steffens, and Francis Whitaker." If you ever make it to the Monterey Bay aquarium they have Ed Ricketts' bookshelf, including a copy of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Biological_Laboratories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Biological_Laboratorie...
- bmn__ 6y agohttps://hackerspaces.org/ https://hackerspaces.org/