Question on Deaf clubs

[Gemtun]

I don't attend any deaf club. I just have better things to do rather than listening to people talking bad about anyone they dislike.

I second that, Brian

 

[VamPyroX]

Your question is a weird one. I don't even know what you are talking about. I know Utah and Arizona have them on first floor. Perhaps, just a thought, in your area, they noticed Deafies need to exercise more often, so they put it on second floor?

I think that upstairs locations are cheaper. In this case, the club owners were probably trying to save money by picking a cheaper location?

 

[VamPyroX]

Who goes to their deaf clubs?

I used to go to one for children. There is an adult's deaf club near where I live, but I don't go to it, only for special ocassions (like Bonfire Night) instead we all meet up in a pub every Thursdays, and call it deaf club, it's great fun!

I've gone to only two deaf clubs. I went to the club in Dallas, TX... a few times. I went to the club in Rochester, NY... once.

 

[pinkster]

(Oh, Pls do NOT worry about whether
it's not too far off topic)
That's very interesting !! Thanks !!!
I assume that you're talking
about the Thompson Hall Deaf Club on
1824 Marshall Ave in St. Paul Right ?

Geez, I wish there are more people donated
their big houses for deaf clubs, at least one
for every state !

Yes, that one.. I've been going to it for almost my whole life, since I was about 3 years old. I know it like the back of my hand

 

[Y]

LOL about blindfolding you (Pinkster) and
you'll still be able to know everywhere
in that building/clubhouse...

I think it is very important to have a deaf club
because of social interaction among
deaf and hearing people who know signs
as part of "education". Some other people
got wrong ideas about deaf club as a
place for "gossips".... That's Negative. (Sigh)

I went to a few deaf clubs and
of course I am NOT the kind of person
to talk about other people or gossips...
I like to go there for social interaction
for education, conversations, relaxing
and playing cards etc. I am more
interested in anything more positive,
rather than Negatives.

I wonder if St Paul is the ONLY ONE
with a house donated for a deaf club ?

If I'm wrong, then I would like to
find out which other deaf club in
USA with any "House that was
donated for a Deaf Club" ???
Which state ? etc...

 

[pinkster]

LOL about blindfolding you (Pinkster) and
you'll still be able to know everywhere
in that building/clubhouse...

I think it is very important to have a deaf club
because of social interaction among
deaf and hearing people who know signs
as part of "education". Some other people
got wrong ideas about deaf club as a
place for "gossips".... That's Negative. (Sigh)

I went to a few deaf clubs and
of course I am NOT the kind of person
to talk about other people or gossips...
I like to go there for social interaction
for education, conversations, relaxing
and playing cards etc. I am more
interested in anything more positive,
rather than Negatives.

I wonder if St Paul is the ONLY ONE
with a house donated for a deaf club ?

If I'm wrong, then I would like to
find out which other deaf club in
USA with any "House that was
donated for a Deaf Club" ???
Which state ? etc...

As far as I know, I think it is. I believe (as of a couple years ago) Thompson Hall is also the only FREE deaf club. You pay no admission or anything like that. Just pay your drinks or food, potlucks or events that they have there. It's actually quite nice.

Sadly, just like any other deaf club there are those people who gossip and backstab, etc. It's why I only go once a month, just to play a game then go home. It's easier to just come and go, avoid the questions about my life and tolerate the ones about my father's life. *shrugs* But other than that it can be fun!

 

[Y]

As far as I know, I think it is. I believe (as of a couple years ago) Thompson Hall is also the only FREE deaf club. You pay no admission or anything like that. Just pay your drinks or food, potlucks or events that they have there. It's actually quite nice.

Sadly, just like any other deaf club there are those people who gossip and backstab, etc. It's why I only go once a month, just to play a game then go home. It's easier to just come and go, avoid the questions about my life and tolerate the ones about my father's life. *shrugs* But other than that it can be fun!

Exactly rite ! Just ignore and enjoy your life

 

[quiet gal]

eternity,
Yeah, I agree but I didn't know that wheelchair can climb the stairs? *stratching my head* : )

If you do not want to hear the backstabbing or gossip, just tell them you are not interesting! They will leave you alone! I did the same thing and they hush up and talk about something else. It works! Shouldn't let that bother you at all. If they talk about someone else, then they have a problem!

 

[Oddball]

I went to few deaf clubs such as Cleveland Association for the Deaf, Rochester Association for the Deaf, Toledo Association for the Deaf, Detroit Association for the Deaf, Columbus Association for the Deaf, and DCARA Deaf Club (formerly Fremont Club). All clubs which I went to have first floors. DCARA Deaf Club used to be a garage shop.

Cleveland Association for the Deaf building used to have stairs on E. 9th before it was bulldozed in order to get more roomy space for the Jacobs Field years ago. That CAD moved to the place on Lorain Ave.

 

[Tousi]

I think the reason the Minnesota Club(Thompson Hall as I recall)is on the second floor is cuz if it snows azz-deep to a tall Indian, your'e safe!

 

[Liebling:-)))]

The one I go to is called The White Hart, its in the UK, Bristol

Oh I see!

You live in Bristol, not London.

Deafies went to "Victoria" Pub in London.


We don't have deaf club in the area where I live but deafies meeting with children once a month in the resturant.

There're deaf club in Nürnberg which it's 40 km away from my area. They went there every weekends.
Deafies meeting and play cards at Fridays
Deafies bowling at Saturdays

I only visit Deaf Club in Nürnberg when there're interesting subject at conference with an interpeter which it held twice or three times a year.

My friends and I see each other privately than go to Deaf Club. I do not keen to go Deaf Club frequently since we are busy with our family life. Our family life comes first.

 

[Opal]

I go to Werribee Deaf Club every month, and believe it or not, I am not really too keen to go BUT its my hearing children that they don't want to give it a miss it because they LOVES to go there to see KODA children!

Even when I was away abroad twice this year, they asked my deaf friends for a lift to go there!! :sure:

 

[LinuxGold]

I couldn't decide where to put this question, but I'm wondering why I always have to go up stairs to the second floor to get to Deaf clubs. At first, I thought that the Deaf club in Minneapolis was just weirdly designed but now that I've been out and about I noticed that they all have staircases. Why is this?!

Heh, it might depend on the local deaf culture near where you currently live. Not all cultures, societies or such are the same. Deaf culture are just as diverse as hearing people across United States. It might depend on their finances, social practices, beliefs and so on. In Atlanta, Georgia we had "silent dinner" in the Mall of Georgia, and we took up around 1/2 of food court area, and it was still growing from the last time I were there. But in Delaware, "silent dinner" is taken in various places depending on meeting on the last occasion.

 

[SpiceHD]

hm interesting... i really ought to check up on deaf clubs around here. I didnt have much social experiences with deafies other than deaf school so i really dont know much.

 

[Peachy Lady]

Deaf club in Madison, Wisconsin has two floors. First floor has stage, big room, kitchen and office. Second floor has bar, pool room and a room with booths. This deaf club is part of building with various businesses next doors, near downtown. Very hard to find area to park car because the public street is very busy on Saturday nights.

At Oklahoma City, Oklahoma deaf club also has two floors. They have rooms like the one at Madison deaf club has. This OKC deaf club was an old two story house and the members there were able to pay this house off. The members renovated the club and it looks great. They have bingo on most weekends. The club has good parking area and never had problem finding parking spots.

 

[Brian]

Why would deaf clubs have more than one floors? Do they have bed suites on the second floor or so?

 

[knightwolf68]

Why would deaf clubs have more than one floors? Do they have bed suites on the second floor or so?

in my own point of view why they have more than one floor because they need more spaces for socialize and events and bar set up to be seprate from children and potlock to be fill in etc .. whatever u name these ...

 

[Brian]

LinuxGold - yes, the one at the Mall of Georgia (Buford) is usually crowded in by the deaf and hearing people on the first Saturday every month. Many of silent dinners are held at the malls elsewhere in the Atlanta suburbs and Georgia not just at the one in Buford.

 

[Brian]

in my own point of view why they have more than one floor because they need more spaces for socialize and events and bar set up to be seprate from children and potlock to be fill in etc .. whatever u name these ...

I see, knightwolf68. I thought they'd have one at a regular building instead of one in a residential house.

 

[pinkster]

I see, knightwolf68. I thought they'd have one at a regular building instead of one in a residential house.

Well some of them are in commercial buildings. Last time I went to CCD (Chicago) they were in a commercial area, with bars nearby and what not.

At the deaf club in St Paul, the house belonged to a hearing couple who donated it after their death, if I'm not mistaken. They have a big stage on the 3rd floor, they play bingo and have plays/acts every now and then, etc etc. The 2nd floor has a kitchen and a large dining hall, then a little nook with a pool table. The first floor has the bar, the big long hall that used to be a bowling lane, and 2 extra rooms for other things. One is being used for a Sorenson VP, the other has a table where people play cards.

I guess it depends on what is affordable and what is not, in St Paul, the case was, well, it was free