请输入您要查询的百科知识：

　

词条 Mary's Club
释义

  1. History

  2. Murals and marquee

  3. Reception

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{good article}}{{Infobox venue
| name = Mary's Club
| nickname =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| fullname =
| former names =
| logo_image =
| logo_caption =
| image = File:Mary's Club 01.jpg
| image_size =
| image_alt = Storefront entrance on an inner-city street
| caption = The club's front entrance in 2014
| pushpin_label_position =
| pushpin_map = Portland downtown
| pushpin_map_caption= Location in Portland, Oregon
| map_size = 250px
| address = 129 Southwest Broadway[1]
| location = Portland, Oregon, United States
| coordinates = {{coord|45.522804|-122.67783|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| type =
| genre =
| broke_ground =
| built =
| opened =
| renovated =
| expanded =
| closed =
| demolished =
| owner =
| operator = Mary Duerst Hemming (1930s–1954), Roy Keller (1954–2006), Vicki Keller (2006–present)
| surface =
| scoreboard =
| cost =
| architect =
| project_manager =
| structural engineer =
| services engineer =
| general_contractor =
| main_contractors =
| seating_type =
| capacity =
| suites =
| record_attendance =
| dimensions =
| field_shape =
| acreage =
| volume =
| tenants =
| embedded =
| website = {{URL|http://www.marysclub.com}}
| publictransit =
}}

Mary's Club is the oldest strip club in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. In 1954 Roy Keller bought the business from Mary Duerst Hemming, who owned and operated Mary's as a piano bar beginning in the 1930s. Keller initially hired go-go dancers as entertainment during the piano player's breaks, later hiring them full-time because of their popularity. Topless dancers wearing pasties were introduced in 1955. The club also featured comics, musicians, singers and other acts. All-nude dancing began in 1985, after a judicial ruling against City of Portland ordinances banning it in venues which served alcohol.

Former strippers include Courtney Love and Christine Jorgensen, although the club is known for its longtime dancers who are loyal to the family business. Since Keller's death in 2006, Mary's Club has been owned and operated by his daughter Vicki. A Portland institution, it has been included in several strip-club "best of" lists and its neon sign is considered a landmark. The club has appeared in several films, including Bongwater (1997) and Brainsmasher... A Love Story (1993), and has been included in walking tours of the city.

History

Mary's Club, known as "Portland's first topless", is the oldest strip club in Portland.[1][2] Portland shipyard foreman Roy Keller bought the club in 1954 for about $25,000 from Mary Duerst Hemming,[3][1][4][5] who was awarded the piano bar (which was popular with sailors) in a divorce settlement and operated the business "for more than 20 years" beginning in the 1930s.[3][1] According to The Seattle Times, Keller initially hired go-go dancers to entertain the crowd during the piano player's breaks.[6] Due to the dancers' popularity, Keller hired them full-time, laid off the piano player and introduced "pasties-clad topless dancers" in 1955.[3][6] That year, two city-council members advised Keller not to install pinball machines at the club[4] since Portland then had an anti-pinball ordinance which was being contested in court.[7] A Mary's Club team played in the Multnomah League of the Portland Basketball Association during the 1955–56 season with teams sponsored by Interstate Hauling, Kent's Keg, Il Trovatore, Frolic Inn, and the Portland Air Base, among others.[8]

Singers, comics, and piano players performed at the club. A 1958 newspaper advertisement announced its opening act as Tiny Watson, "200 pounds of mirth and merriment", and compared her to Sophie Tucker.[9] The closing performer was George James, "King of the Keyboards".[9] In 1965, an Oregonian article featured topless dancer Bambi Darling, who performed at Mary's Club; she reportedly excelled in discothèque, "shaking and undulating" to the Mashed Potato, the Monkey, the Shotgun, and other dances popular at the time. Keller, said to resemble "a church deacon", praised his dancers and described his customer base as "more refined" than that of the club's pre-1954 era.[10] By March 1966, Darling's "16 torrid acts" shared the bill with reptile-wrestler Bobby Vale and Gigi La France, promoted as the club's answer to James Bond.[11] Tom Waits reportedly sang about the club in "Pasties and a G-String" from his album, Small Change (1976).[12] In 2012, an author wrote that Mary's Club featured "tattooed contortionist entertainers".[13]

Nude dancing at the club began in 1985 after a judge overturned City of Portland ordinances banning it at venues which served alcohol. A lawsuit over pasties and G-strings was brought after Portland annexed land formerly regulated by Multnomah County, which allowed tavern dancers to perform without clothing. A bar forced by the annexation to eliminate its nude dancing successfully sued the city. "As soon as we got the word [about the ruling], we went nude," said a club employee who was quoted in The Oregonian.[14]

According to Willamette Week, Courtney Love (whose autographed picture hangs on a club wall) is a former Mary's Club stripper.[12] Love wrote on the photograph that she "bought my very first guitar here showing my teeny little titties".[12] Although Christine Jorgensen was also featured at the club,[3] dancers tend to be longtime employees loyal to the family-run business.[3] Keller died in 2006 at age 90; Mary's Club is now run by his daughter, Vicki, who remembered that she first worked there as a seven-year-old waitress.[6][15] Vicki managed the business for twenty-five years before her father's death, and her daughters worked at the club during that period.[3]

According to a 2013 Portland Monthly profile, Mary's Club has a full cocktail bar, more than two dozen varieties of beer and wine, and a menu featuring Mexican cuisine. The club has a one-drink minimum and a small cover charge on Friday and Saturday evenings.[16]

Murals and marquee

Between 1956 and 1958, Keller hired La Monte Montyne to paint murals throughout the club's interior. The fluorescent murals depict scenes which Roy thought patrons would appreciate.[1] Several feature women in exotic locales, such as the Orient and the Pyramids; one depicts an "island beauty" watching sailors load bananas onto a ship, and another shows merchant seamen working in front of a ship docked in a "Portland-like" harbor.[1] The mural at the Pyramids depicts a lounging Cleopatraesque woman, and another features an "exotic priestess" making a sacrifice at a volcano. According to Mary's, the murals receive "almost as much attention as the girls do!"[1] Mary's "retro" neon marquee has been called a "landmark for locals and tourists alike".[17] In 2014, a Willamette Week contributor said about the signage: "The marquee, blue and star-spangled and coyly advertising an evening of 'Dine and Dance', is as iconic as the neon on the 'Made in Oregon' sign and the line outside Voodoo".[18] The club's cocktail-waitress logo is featured on clothing, and its marquee also includes an epitaph to Keller.[17]

Reception

Mary's Club has been called a "downtown institution"[2][15] and a "Portland nightlife landmark".[39] In 2001, The Portland Mercury called the club "a must-visit for any true strip club connoisseur" for offering "friendliness and sexiness".[19] A reporter found the interior "cozy", with conversational dancers who seemed to enjoy their interaction with guests.[19] After Keller's death, Willamette Week said that the club "has cemented its place in history far beyond the city limits" for featuring Love and Jorgensen and offering nudity to a loyal customer base.[3] The newspaper's Mary Christmas wrote that Keller had become a "regional celebrity" and could be credited with beginning a local industry.[3] In 2011, a contributor to the Daily Vanguard (Portland State University's student newspaper) included Mary's on his list of the city's top five strip clubs: "If you visit only one dance club in this town it should probably be Mary’s. The inside is stuffy and sleazy, but embodies that red-light district feel that fits right in with [the] rowdy environment."[20] That year, Willamette Week called the club "the undisputed grande dame of West Coast strips" and "a stubbornly degenerate landmark".[12] According to the newspaper's Matthew Korfhage, its entertainment came in the form of "girls/ladies, friendly also brassy, oddly classy, with sterling taste on the juke, who let you see all of their piercings and tattoos. Also, video poker".[12] In 2013, Portland Monthly made Mary's Club an "editor's pick" for its dancers, its all-female staff, and its "welcoming and relaxed" environment.[16] Thrillist.com included Mary's in its "definitive guide" to Portland's best strip clubs,[21] complimenting its "glorious flashing sign that welcomes you to Downtown" and calling the club "a part of Portland's past we should all cherish".[21] Men's Fitness included Mary's on its list of the "Top 10 Best Strip Clubs in America", calling it a "neon landmark" with blacklight murals and a "relaxed, hole-in-the-wall vibe".[22]

Thomas Lauderdale, known for his work with the Portland-based band Pink Martini, has shared his fondness for the club and considers it one of his favorite places in the city.[15] Portland Monthly published a video of Lauderdale giving a tour of the club. Lauderdale interviews Vicki Keller and shows the interior murals.[15] He sometimes wears a Pink Martini bomber-style jacket inspired by one sold by the business in the 1950s.[2] Films including scenes shot at Mary's include Bongwater (1997), Brainsmasher... A Love Story (1993) and Dangerous Pursuit (1990).[1][15] The club has been included in walking tours of Portland, including Lonely Planet's "Underground Portland".[23] Mary's Club was the last stop on the 2013 "Seedy, Seamy and Sinful Portland" history tour, which took adult visitors to Old Town Chinatown sites to examine the city's "darker elements".[24] Led by a historian, the tour included saloons, opium dens, gambling halls, and bordellos which operated in the city.[25] It was repeated in the historian's 2014 tour, "Shanghaiers, Saloons and Skullduggery: A Walking Tour of Portland's Sinful Past".[26]

See also

  • Carriage Room

References

1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{Cite web|url=http://www.marysclub.com/history.php|title=History|accessdate=February 22, 2014|publisher=Mary's Club}}
2. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last=Austin|first=Tom|title=Portland, Oregon’s Indie Scene|journal=Travel + Leisure|issn=0041-2007|date=August 2007|url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/american-eden|accessdate=February 22, 2014|location=New York City, New York}}
3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite news|last=Christmas|first=Mary|title=Pole Bearers: The Family Behind Mary's Club Says Goodbye to Its Patriarch|work=Willamette Week|location=Portland, Oregon|date=July 19, 2006|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-5839-pole_bearers.html|accessdate=February 9, 2014}}
4. ^1 {{cite news|title=Council Duo Anti-Games|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|date=July 15, 1955|page=31}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OR&p_theme=or&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=Mary%20AND%20Duerst%20AND%20Hemming&s_dispstring=Mary%20Duerst%20Hemming%20AND%20date(10/28/1992%20to%2010/28/1992)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=10/28/1992%20to%2010/28/1992)&xcal_numdocs=50&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no |title=Mary Duerst Hemming |publisher=The Oregonian|website=oregonlive.com|location=Portland, Oregon|date=October 28, 1992|page=E10}}
6. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2003336880_portlandclubs02m.html|title=When It Comes to Strip Clubs, Portland Has Nothing to Hide|last=Brunner|first=Jim|accessdate=February 5, 2014|date=November 2, 2006|work=The Seattle Times|publisher=The Seattle Times Company|issn=0745-9696|OCLC=9198928|location=Seattle, Washington}}
7. ^{{cite news|title=Pinball Keeps Status Quo Until Trial Settles Case|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|date=July 15, 1955|page=1}}
8. ^{{cite news|title=PBA Results|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|date=February 9, 1956|page=18}}
9. ^1 {{cite news|last=Larson|first=Herb|title=Grand Larsony|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|date=May 10, 1958|page=7}}
10. ^{{cite news|last=Tugman|first=Peter|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|title=Bare-Bosomed Beauties Boost Business in 2 Portland Bistros|date=August 9, 1965|page=17}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=Mary's Club|newspaper=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|date=March 4, 1966|page=29 (advertisement)}}
12. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|last=Korfhage |first=Matthew |title=Drink 2011: Mary's Club |url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16797-drink_2011_marys_club.html |work=Willamette Week |location=Portland, Oregon |date=January 25, 2011 |accessdate=February 9, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222130813/http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16797-drink_2011_marys_club.html |archivedate=February 22, 2014 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
13. ^{{cite book|last=Hanna|first=Judith Lynne|title=Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right|date=May 1, 2012|publisher=University of Texas Press|pages=189|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q1sEza-K-A8C&pg=PT201&lpg=PT201&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=February 22, 2014}}
14. ^{{cite news|last=Read|first=Richard|title=Dancers at Taverns 'Bare Up' Well After Laws Stripped Away by Judge|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|date=June 27, 1985|page=54}}
15. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title=Thomas Lauderdale Tours Portland|url=http://vimeo.com/13585927|work=Portland Monthly|accessdate=February 22, 2014}}
16. ^1 {{cite journal|title=Mary's Club|journal=Portland Monthly|date=January 28, 2013|accessdate=February 22, 2014|location=Portland, Oregon|url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/bars/marys-club}}
17. ^1 {{cite book|title=Geographies of Dance: Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations|date=December 24, 2013|publisher=Lexington Books|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1FzAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=March 31, 2014|first1=Adam|last1=Pine|first2=Olaf|last2=Kuhlke}}
18. ^{{cite news|title=Strip Club Guide 2014: Our Favorite Clubs from A to Z|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22104-strip_club_guide_2014_our_favorite_clubs_from_a_to_z.html|accessdate=March 31, 2014|first=Matthew|last=Singer|work=Willamette Week|date=March 12, 2014}}
19. ^1 {{cite news|last=Sanders|first=Justin|title=Mary's Club: Theater Review|url=http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/marys-club/Content?oid=24973|work=The Portland Mercury|publisher=Index Newspapers|date=July 12, 2001|accessdate=February 9, 2014}}
20. ^1 {{cite news|last=Fong|first=Kevin|title=Top Five Strip Clubs|url=http://psuvanguard.com/uncategorized/top-five-strip-clubs/|accessdate=February 22, 2014|newspaper=Daily Vanguard|date=March 11, 2011|location=Portland, Oregon}}
21. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/portland/the-definitive-guide-to-pdxs-best-strip-clubs|title=The Definitive Guide to PDX's Best Strip Clubs|publisher=Thrillist Media Group|first=Drew|last=Tyson|date=November 6, 2013|accessdate=February 22, 2014}}
22. ^{{cite journal|last=Gould|first=Joe|title=The 10 Best Strip Clubs in America|journal=Men's Fitness|url=http://www.mensfitness.com/life/entertainment/10-best-strip-clubs-america?page=3|page=3|publisher=American Media|issn=0893-4460|accessdate=March 15, 2014}}
23. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1a2muAWtPIC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=187|accessdate=March 27, 2014|first1=Danny|last1=Palmerlee|first2=Catherine|last2=Bodry|first3=Mariella|last3=Krause|first4=John|last4=Lee|first5=Bradley|last5=Mayhew|date=September 1, 2010|title=Lonely Planet Pacific Northwest Trips|publisher=Lonely Planet}}
24. ^{{cite news|last=Hottman|first=Sara|title=Know Your City Tours Setting Up Kiosk in Ankeny Alley|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|publisher=Oregon Live LLC|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/08/know_your_city_to_join_old_tow.html|date=August 14, 2013|accessdate=February 11, 2014}}
25. ^{{cite news|last=Turnquist|first=Kristi|title=The Hot List: 'Music on Main Street,' 'Sinful' Portland tour, 'Portlandia' on Video|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2013/07/the_hot_list_music_on_main_str.html|work=The Oregonian|publisher=Oregon Live, LLC|date=July 5, 2013|accessdate=February 11, 2014}}
26. ^{{cite web|title=Alumni in the News: Dive into Portland’s Seedy History on the Shanghaiers, Saloons and Skullduggery: A Walking Tour of Portland's Sinful Past {{!}} Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin of Kick A** Oregon History|url=http://www.pdx.edu/alumni/news/alumni-news-dive-portland’s-seedy-history-shanghaiers-saloons-and-skullduggery-walking-tour-portland|publisher=Portland State University|accessdate=February 22, 2014|location=Portland, Oregon|date=January 15, 2014}}

External links

{{external media
| align = right
| width =
| image1 = Gallery: "Viva Las Vegas at Mary's Club" (Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian)
}}{{Commons category|Mary's Club}}
  • {{Official website|http://www.marysclub.com}}
  • Drink Guide 2007, Willamette Week
  • Drink 2008, Willamette Week
  • Drink 2009, Willamette Week
  • Drink 2010, Willamette Week
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=nudDmSOaOk0C&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false Life's Not Just a Drag] by Gary L. Alexander (2013)
  • Lunch at Santeria with a side of Mary's Club: five Valentine's Day dates, The Oregonian (2014)
  • The Stripper Who Lost a Breast by Melissa Lion, The Daily Beast (2009)
  • Aug. 3, 1982: Oregon’s Supreme Court determines that the state constitution protects free expression of "any subject whatsoever…" by Viva Las Vegas, Willamette Week (2014)
{{Portal bar|Nudity|Oregon|Sexuality}}

3 : 1954 establishments in Oregon|Nightclubs in Portland, Oregon|Strip clubs in Oregon
随便看

　

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

　

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间：2024/9/27 21:25:44