New downtown Jacksonville social club only allows ‘pillars’ of the community

3 years ago 225

Members of The Pillars Club basal successful the precocious opened downtown Jacksonville location.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Honoring those who person fixed to Jacksonville passim its history: “Pillars” of our community.

That’s the extremity of the precocious opened The Pillars Club successful downtown Jacksonville.

To observe the members-only societal nine and cigar lounge’s opening lawsuit connected Thursday night, we spell to cognize their peculiar guest’s transportation to the city’s past.

Warren Singleton’s begetter is Jacksonville’s philharmonic personage Charlie “Hoss” Singleton, a section songwriter who worked with the likes of Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.

Singleton’s lad told News4Jax seeing his father’s enlarged photograph among the portraits of humanities pillars of Jacksonville’s past that adorn the walls of the recently opened Pillars Club was a fantastic surprise.

“I’m blessed that he’s being fixed his, his peculiar honor,” Singleton said.

Singleton a impermanent of grant astatine the Pillars Club opening lawsuit said his begetter was a composer extraordinaire from Jacksonville, who helped the careers of immoderate beauteous celebrated singers.

“My begetter was liable for penning a batch of songs for Nat King Cole. He besides wrote Strangers successful the Night for Frank Sinatra,” Singleton said.

The exclusive, members-only nine obtained the photos from the Jacksonville Historical Society. You volition find adorned on the walls of their Downtown West Adams Street determination humanities images of Jacksonville’s icons specified arsenic James Weldon Johnson, Ninah May Holden Cummer, and J.E.T Bowden.

“We spot this arsenic a bully fit, a bully accidental for america to stock immoderate of the resources we’ve go the custodians of, implicit the past 92 years,” said Alan Bliss, Jacksonville Historical Society CEO.

And done that partnership, The Pillars Club is calling connected section artists to make their ain versions of the humanities portraits decorating the club’s walls, renditions to beryllium auctioned disconnected respective times a year.

The funds raised spell to a antithetic Jacksonville foundation each time.

“When you deliberation astir what moves, shapes and grows a community, It’s each of the small things that we each contribute. And truthful wherever would we beryllium without art?” said Simone Williams, proprietor of The Pillars Club.

The Pillars Club is made up of investors, volunteers and civilian workers.

To go a member, you person to amusement you’re contributing to the occurrence of the larger Jacksonville assemblage successful immoderate way.

To larn more, check retired the club’s website.