GPYC Upcoming Events

Euchre Night is Back

Saturday, March 11 | 7 p.m.

Euchre night is back! Enjoy a light dinner, dessert and a fun night with friends. Please bring $10 that will be collected when you arrive toward game play.

$20++ per person. Drinks by subscription.

You must register 48 hours in advance. Please contact the Front Desk to register (313) 884-2500.

"Bar Bango"

Wednesday, March 15 | 7 p.m.

Get ready for a unique game following the rules of a standard bingo game, but much more fun! Enjoy appetizers and prizes!

$20++ per person. Drinks by subscription. Adults 21 and over. Please contact the Front Desk to RSVP at (313) 884-2500 or email frontdesk@gpyc.org.

St. Patrick's Day Party

Friday, March 17 | 4 - 10 p.m.

Join us in the Tower Pub for some fun shenanigans and Irish-themed hors d'oeuvres and drink specials.

Please contact the Front Desk to RSVP at (313) 884-2500 or email frontdesk@gpyc.org.

Kid's Club

Bouncing Bonanza

Sunday, March 19 | 1 - 3 p.m.

The GPYC Ballroom and Venetian will be turned into an indoor playground jam-packed with awesome inflatables! Kids will love the Bounce Houses, 40ft Obstacle Course, Tee Ball, Nerf Western Showdown, Giant Jenga, and sweet treats from Pastry Chef Christina.

$35++ per child. Drinks by subscription.

Please contact the Front Desk to RSVP at (313) 884-2500 or email frontdesk@gpyc.org.

Five Course Spanish Wine Dinner

Friday, March 24 | 6 - 9 p.m.

Please join Chef Eric Voigt and F&B Director Tyler Whittico as they host guest speakers, Nuria Garotte and Sean Sutton of VinoVi&Co in the Venetian for a special 5-course dinner with beautifully paired wines from Spain.

$150++ per person.

Please contact the Front Desk to RSVP at (313) 884-2500 or email frontdesk@gpyc.org.

Open Bowling

March Dates

Saturday, March 4

Friday, March 10

Saturday, March 11

Saturday, March 18

Friday, March 24

Saturday, March 25

Friday, March 31

Subject to availability, please call ahead to confirm.

Cost $40 per hour per lane. Complimentary for league bowlers. Reservations are required please email Gordy Woods at gwoods@gpyc.org.

Couples Bowling

February Dates

Friday, March 3

Friday, March 17

Subject to availability, please call ahead to confirm.

Have a fun date night out and enjoy drinks and dinner in the BRC.

Reservations are required please email Gordy Woods at gwoods@gpyc.org.

Parents – you have the opportunity to enjoy a quiet, relaxing evening at the Club, while your kids enjoy Kid’s Club on Fridays and Saturdays from 5:30 – 10 p.m. Children must be three years old and potty trained. $30 for the first child, $25 for each additional child in the family, this includes a dinner item off the Kid's Menu. To maintain the appropriate staff-tochild ratio, the maximum number of children who can attend Kid’s Club is 6 children per sitter. Reservations are required. The cut-off for reservations is by 4:30 p.m. the day of. We understand things can happen last minute, we will never turn away a child but there will be a $50 charge per walk-in visit. To sign your children up, contact the Front Desk at frontdesk@gpyc.org or (313) 884-2500.

Trap Shooting

Join us every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. through March 12 at the Marine Activity Center with complimentary Chef John's Chili.

Members and guests must bring their own firearm and eye protection. The GPYC does have eye protection for sale.

$30 per person. Includes ammunition and hearing protection.

After rounds are completed drinks by subscription are available.

Did You Know?

By Carol Stephenson

What Might Have Been

It was 1927 when the ground was broken for the new GPYC Clubhouse. Over the course of construction during the next two years, many changes would be made to the original blueprints. One feature that was eventually cut from the plans is hard to imagine these days; it was all about music and musicians.

Those blueprints show the original Main Dining Room to be exactly where it is today. Planners in that era would have known that GPYC members reserving a table for dinner on Saturday night would expect much more than merely a great meal; they would want their dining experience to include music and dancing. To that end, with the idea of maximizing the dining space, a Music Gallery for a small orchestra would be built as an open-air secondfloor balcony overlooking the diners.

To access the Gallery, one would have walked up the stairs to the Club Room (now Ballroom), turned left, left again, and up a few steps to what would have been the Musicians’ Room (now the Club Manager’s Office). This would have been where musicians gathered before a performance and possibly where instruments or other orchestral equipment might have been stored. The Music Gallery would have been built out from this room over the heads of diners, reaching into the Main Dining Room about as far as the center area defined by the columns.

For reasons unknown today, the Music Gallery did not materialize. Someone made a wise decision. Had it actually been built, it is hard to imagine this feature could ever have escaped eventual demolition.

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By Chef Matthew Stocker