Let's see if this description of the 1970 layout of THE OLD DUTCH (1939-1975) jogs up any memories out there in FACEBOOK LAND. (please share your reminiscences as a comment, a Facebook message to me or robertoreg@gmail.com )

"Robert, I remember it very clearly, as they’ve described.  Although I wasn’t there until the spring of 1970.

The primary active bar was on the left as you entered the front door.  The front left of the building was before the door, and glass-enclosed on the east side.  It may have been a package-store for a time.  This summer (70), an artist was using it to display and sell his wares.  In the daytime, before the night-club opened up, he would set paintings in the parking lot, to sell.  So you walked past that section, then thru the arched wooden front door.  Main bar on the left, fireplace at right center, and food bar on far right.  A door on the far right (fireplace wall) at the far end of the food bar, led into an office/dressing room.  I can still remember the G-strings hanging on the wall.  There was no thong underwear in 1970, so that was pretty exotic stuff.  Hell, women’s underwear of any kind, hanging on the wall, was pretty exotic to a kid.

As you came in the door, turning left to get behind the main bar, there was a door to the left of that, into a part of the package-store section - that was the liquor storage room.  This is where the cases of Old Dutch hurricane glasses were stored, plus liquor of every description, and mixers.   Anyway, coming thru the front door, if you went past the main bar on the left, thru a big doorway past the fireplace on the right, you came into the main club room.  On the near right side was the outline of the aforementioned office/dressing room. Tables and chairs were everywhere.  Beyond the dressing room on the right side (maybe this room was about 30 x 70), was the stage and dance floor.  It’s amazing how many people that whole room held.  At the beach (far) end of the main room, the room cornered to the left, and that area was about 24 x 30.  On the right (west) side between the dressing room and stage, there were some paned windows that probably could be opened, and in the extended room at the back and to the left, there were many windows that looked onto the beach, and they opened.  I think in this extended room was the unused bar, on the north side away from the beach side.  I remember Kasandra looking down to the beach from these open windows one afternoon, and someone shouting “Let it all hang out!, whereupon she pulled up her bikini top and wiggled in a “free-spirited” manner.  It was only a couple of days before my eyesight returned…

The windows at the beach side most likely had palm trees nearby, and probably the right side also.  I’d bet on the beach side being the described “entry-way”.  With such goings-on as I’ve described above, you can imagine how a young man could suddenly become ambitious enough to climb a palm tree.

Until the 26^th,

M."