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Savoy Club

contract bridge club in California

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ25064515 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Savoy Club was a contract bridge club established in May 1966 on Sunset Strip, Hollywood, California.

Founded by Frank Van Haraz, acquired a year later by the group of Lorne Greene, Lew Mathe, Norman Moss and George Bassman, it quickly came under the sole ownership and control of George Bassman. The club had a reciprocal agreement with the Cavendish Club of New York. The facility provided a plush playing environment augmented by lounge and dining areas and a complete bridge library.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Savoy Club” as contract bridge club in California. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Savoy, Club and contract.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Savoy, Club and contract providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Savoy Club”, the useful work is to connect “contract bridge club in California” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q25064515. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1966.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Savoy Club”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Savoy Club primary sources, Savoy Club archive and Savoy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Savoy Club”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Savoy Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.