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The club was housed in a building originally constructed in 1908, then known as "The Strand Hotel" with a saloon on the ground floor, that catered to sailors and accepted only men as customers. By the 1970s, the building was housing a
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music, there was dancing that was described to be "as fierce as a bottle of fresh
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was occasionally one of the many famous patrons inside and
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