for me, moving from a state university campus
to the Three Arts Club, around 1971,
it was the safe haven i needed
in a city unlike any i knew...
it was a place where there were
just enough rules to protect me from myself...
a place where i could hang with other arty girls
with good upbringings, all of us ready to cut loose,
but still needing some gentle guidance...
it was a sorority without the snobs.
a dorm without the drunks.
a place to NOT get pregnant...
but rather to get exposed to the world of the arts
as others lived and strived it.
i cannot imagine how the city might have
bruised and damaged my sensibilities,
without the Three Arts Club as a buffer zone.
i have always remembered it so fondly.
and i will continue to embrace it as it was,
and hope it will be recreated someday.
aloha and light...
to the Three Arts Club, around 1971,
it was the safe haven i needed
in a city unlike any i knew...
it was a place where there were
just enough rules to protect me from myself...
a place where i could hang with other arty girls
with good upbringings, all of us ready to cut loose,
but still needing some gentle guidance...
it was a sorority without the snobs.
a dorm without the drunks.
a place to NOT get pregnant...
but rather to get exposed to the world of the arts
as others lived and strived it.
i cannot imagine how the city might have
bruised and damaged my sensibilities,
without the Three Arts Club as a buffer zone.
i have always remembered it so fondly.
and i will continue to embrace it as it was,
and hope it will be recreated someday.
aloha and light...
Krisha, that is beautiful and so very true. The Three Arts was not only favored by a certain type of young woman -- but many a father seemed very happy to be sending his daughter to an all-female place. There was a sense of safety and a bit of a sense of guidance, as you say.
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