Bernard Maybeck was a famous Arts & Crafts architect in California. He's in Wikipedia. Maybeck designed a two story log building in the Bohemian Grove. (This is what I was told by caretakers there at BG.) They showed my wife and I where the building was. On a catering job my wife and I walked over to the building and went up the outside stairs to the second floor and peeked in the windows. It was like looking into a museum. The decor was right out of 1938 in an old Film Noir movie. The story was that Churchill met FDR in this room and they ordered Manhattans to drink. They then discussed the Atomic Bomb Project and named it the Manhattan Project after their drinks. The story is probably bullshit as I can find no record of Winston Churchill coming to BG or NoCal, but it's a good story and that building gave us the creeps.
Caterers were exempt from the "no female employees" rule. Don't know why. Probably because all caterers use women. The caretakers at the BG were all male.
But didn't they ban even female employees at the Grove for decades? I thought it was an exclusively male thing. Thanks.
Bernard Maybeck was a famous Arts & Crafts architect in California. He's in Wikipedia. Maybeck designed a two story log building in the Bohemian Grove. (This is what I was told by caretakers there at BG.) They showed my wife and I where the building was. On a catering job my wife and I walked over to the building and went up the outside stairs to the second floor and peeked in the windows. It was like looking into a museum. The decor was right out of 1938 in an old Film Noir movie. The story was that Churchill met FDR in this room and they ordered Manhattans to drink. They then discussed the Atomic Bomb Project and named it the Manhattan Project after their drinks. The story is probably bullshit as I can find no record of Winston Churchill coming to BG or NoCal, but it's a good story and that building gave us the creeps.
Very interesting, Timmy. Thanks for sharing!
Caterers were exempt from the "no female employees" rule. Don't know why. Probably because all caterers use women. The caretakers at the BG were all male.