The Rainier Club in Seattle, Washington, is a private, exclusive club. Up until the mid-1980s it's members were only male. There is still only one woman's bathroom. On the other hand it has one of the best private collections of Edward Curtis's amazing photographs of Native North Americans (displayed on the stairwell leading to the one woman's bathroom. Curtis exchanged photos for a room). John Muir and Gifford Pinchot are among the historical figures known to have stayed in the Club.But for the past thirty years it has mainly been a base of power in Seattle. Political fund raisers have been held there, law firm dinners, and banking deals drawn up in it's men's grill.
Now, apparently, it needs some remodeling. To the tune of $500,000. And because the building is considered historical (although it is not on the National Register of Historic Buildings) it can qualify for federal funding. So the local Congressman (who probably collects lots of fund raising dollars at the Rainier Club) submitted a federal earmark for $250,000 to be matched by the members (many of them wealthy beyond belief).
My house was built in 1924, and while not historic, it's old and needs a lot of work. Hmmmm.
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You've only ever found one women's bathroom in the Rainier Club? There is one downstairs and one down the hall from the main dining room, same as the two men's bathrooms. There is also a women's locker room in the Club's fitness center. Judge Betty Fletcher became the first woman member in 1978, not the mid-1980s. The Rainier Club is not the male chauvinist place you seem to think it is.
ReplyDeleteAnd where in the Rainier Club is this "men's grill" you seem to think has been there for the last 30 years?? It doesn't exist. You must be confusing it with some other club.
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