Pacific-Union Club
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The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000
Nob Hill. It is a well known club of the West Coast,[citation needed
] clubs in the United States.
It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). The clubhouse was built as the home for silver magnate
Fairmont Hotel across the street, it was the only structure in the area to survive the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906
.
Prominent members
Some notable citizens have been Pacific-Union Club members, including:
- General Pipe Line Company
- Riley P. Bechtel, CEO, Bechtel Corporation
- Stephen Bechtel Jr., former CEO, Bechtel Corporation
- Warren A. Bechtel, founder of Bechtel Corporation
- Southern Pacific Railroad
- William Lane Booker, British diplomat
- Benjamin Dillingham
- William Henry Draper III, businessman
- Paul B. Fay Jr., (deceased) former Undersecretary of the Navy and PT squadron mate of John F. Kennedy[1]
- California Attorney General
- US Ambassador to India; Dean of the Commerce Department at the University of California, Berkeley; President of American President Lines
- Levi Strauss & Co
- Randolph Apperson Hearst
- William Randolph Hearst Jr.
- William Randolph Hearst III
- William Redington Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
- Henry J. Kaiser, engineer and founder of Kaiser Family Foundation
- William S. Mailliard
- Robert McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- R. A. F. Penrose Jr., prominent geologist
- Southern Pacific Railroad
- Charles R. Schwab, founder of Charles Schwab Corporation
- Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Plácido Vega y Daza, former General and Governor of the Mexican state Sinaloa. He descended directly from Christopher Columbus' great-great grandson, the Admiral and 3rd Duke of Veragua. General Vega y Daza also became a vice-president of the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco
Pacific Union Club Punch
Pacific Union Club Punch is a drink named after the Pacific-Union Club in
The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them[2]
with the recipe:
For a party of ten. Into a large punch-bowl place ten tablespoonfuls of bar sugar and ten tablespoonfuls of freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice. Add two jiggers of
champagne and one bottle of good cognac. Stir thoroughly, ice, decorate and serve in thin glassware.
See also
- List of American gentlemen's clubs
37°47′31.92″N 122°24′41.4″W / 37.7922000°N 122.411500°W
References
- ^ Lara, Adair (2004-07-18). "THE CHOSEN FEW / S.F.'s exclusive clubs carry on traditions of fellowship, culture -- and discrimination". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
- ^ Boothby, William "Cocktail". The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them, 1908. Photographed at San Francisco Public Library Historical Materials Collection [1] on December 28, 2006.
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