This is the original Playboy Club……
© 2012 Michael Fiveson
This small shed once housed the first club in America. A group of small town fellows who enjoyed beer to excess would gather here and discuss prospective conquests. Unfortunately, none ever occurred, but it was great fun to imagine themselves as playboys and lovers extraordinaire.
Mike's Look at Life 
Originally owned by Bubba Hef, no doubt.
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I think Bubba was there supervising. Thanks.
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you and I were charter members at this class establishment
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We saw it both in our youth and as chartered adult members. As such we can always go back, at no cost. Even the beer is free.
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SWEET! I like the contrast of the blues of this “clubhouse” with the reds of the other “clubhouses.” Did your rivals meet in them?
Interesting story (and great shot).
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Like a scene out of West Side Story, rural version, where boys in overalls would dance wildly down the street singing drunkenly off key. Every dog for 12 square blocks (the entire town) would howl painfully.
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Good Shot Mike! I believe that red shed is Penthouse’s 🙂
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Yes, you may be right as Penthouse did see a business opportunity there.
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Haha, I like that!
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Lorna, if I may add just the smallest smile to your face then my work is done. Thank you.
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For ‘small smile’ see ‘huge grin’! 🙂
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Nice!
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Sounds like it must have been a lot of fun!
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Yes it does. We did things a little different in New York, but I would have loved to have been part of this hick squad.
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Great shot and brilliant background narrative as always! Is the membership list closed to non US residents?
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No, we love to include our English cousins and brothers. You would be bringing the Guinness and perhaps a lass or two. Call me three days before your arrival and I will have it set up. 1-800-ODD-BLOKE
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Pole dancing in that shed in summer must have been a hot proposition.
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Steaming and moist it was.
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!!
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😉
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And why are you speaking in the third person? Hmm?
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He never speaks in the third person.
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Hell Mike – for a door-whore your standards are sorely slipping!!
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Isn’t there a lovely door as part of this image Jude? You are so hard on me!
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I can just see them all in there in their smoking jackets scratching and telling stories with women sitting all over them. Nice photo!
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Sitting all over them. Good visual. Thanks!
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I guess its blue cause they kept thinking of the conquests which never happened..
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LOL. Blue would be right.
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Looks more like a place for rabbits than “bunnies”, but I’m sure a good time was had by all. 🙂
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They only dreamed of bunnies, while the rabbits scurried about.
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how cool is that?
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Oh its cool now. Was smoking hot in it’s time.
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Ohh hot hot picture! I’d love to have been a fly on the wall there.
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Oh there were plenty of flies, the issue was keeping them zipped.
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Hefner had to start somewhere. Fun shot.
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Thanks man!
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Brought a smile to my face on a wet and gloomy day here in Liverpool, UK.
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That pleases me. Don’t forget your galoshes 🙂
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Gigles and laughter here in Chicago, Mike! You made my Sunday morning!
BTW…love the doors!
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That would be “giggles”…sorry.
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🙂 Thanks! Get a bagel, on me.
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More giggles…had a turkey sandwich on 12 grain instead!
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Did you count the grain? What if it was only 10 grain and they called it 12?
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That’s several times today you’ve brought not only a smile, but giggles and actual laughter (on this one).
Needed that, as I’ve spent the entire afternoon doing laundry, using the slowest elevator on the face of the earth (when I pressed “1”, it took me to “8”, back to “6” and finally to “1”–5 times!).
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Yeah that was a fun post with some interesting comments. I like that I can make you laugh. It makes me happy and that is real.
My grandparents in Brooklyn used to have the slowest elevator on earth. How I loved going to visit them.
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Hahahhaha! Looks like the place had a lot going in its lifetime.
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🙂
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Amazing shot… and also the colours standing great… Thank you, dear Mike, with my love, nia
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Thank you Nia.
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Brian, could I use this photo and/or maybe another on my blog and credit it to you. I’m doing a blog about photography being the cure for writers block, and some of the photography blogs I visited today.
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Holly, I am Mike. Not sure who Brian is……but reblog this if you would like, just give me credit and link.
Thanks.
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Duh! Sorry, Mike’s look at life is pretty clear and I have no idea why I said Brian. I think it was from the previous photography post I looked at. It stuck in my mind. Sorry Mike. I’m a regular visitor here.
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No worries at all. Thank you.
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You do such a great job of capturing the picture and explaining the story within. Really great.
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That is a really nice thing for you to say. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
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I wonder why it’s not in the Smithsonian Institution. lol
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It should be….:)
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