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After the fire, little remained of the Club’s furnishings; most of what was left was soiled. It was fortunate that one of the members, Harvie W., was an insurance agent and had convinced the members of the need for protection against this sad event. Another member, Bill B., ran an accounting and tax service out of his garage and had the Club assets on IBM punch cards. Before turning in a claim, though, the value was inflated somewhat to make the best of a bad situation: thus a thousand-dollar list became a $3,500 payoff. It seemed the right thing to…
The members took over in July 1957. In 1959, the Minnesota Street property was purchased by Kenneth Stringfellow and B. Floyd Farr, non-alcoholics, the Club rent going in July from $135 to $150 per month until September of 1961 when it was raised to $160 per month. The rent was consistently at least a month late, going to about two months late after the $160 rate. The lease had one year to go when the Club moved to Fair Ave in 1962, so the property was sub-leased to various groups, among them the San Jose Gospel Choir. A little over…
In 1962, the membership decided to purchase their own clubhouse, locating the Fair Avenue facility through a real estate listing. The property was originally built as the McKinley School in 1911 as part of the Franklin School District, established in 1886. The school was built to serve the children of local fruit growers, as well as the few farmers in the area. In the 1920's, it was on one of the routes used by the Garden City Wheelmen as a bicycle racing course from Story Road to McLaughlin, down Fair Avenue to Lucretia ending on Keyes Road. At the time…
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