Tip Top Club Plage to Go for Losr
San Antonio wartime workers created the Tip Top Club atop the Calcasieu building at Travis and Avenue C for soldiers. It hosts 100000 members, no dues, no initiation, and restricted access for civilians. The war service board furnished a bar, library, desks, and letter paper, establishing a social haven for enlisted men away from camps.
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Soldiers’ Club
Calcastieu
Travis
Avenue C
War Service Board
Uncle Sam
Moore Estate
Calcasieu
Patriotic Residents
Free Club for Soldiers at Tip-Top Hosts Weekly Dances
The War Service Board invited San Antonio women to weekly dances at the Tip-Top Club, where about 600 soldiers and 150 young women attend per event. Invitations are by Mrs Stakes and chaperones, with jazz from Kelly Field musicians. The club also draws daily visitors of around 100, and on holidays like Washington’s Birthday hundreds of troops fill the six flights to see Mrs Stakes.
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War Service Board
San Antonio
Seemia
Kelly Field
Camp Travie
Tip-Top
Washington
Mrs. Stakes
Dix
Home Folks Plan Proves Hospitality in San Antonio
The Light reports the Home Folks Plan, born from a staffer's idea, uniting San Antonio residents with soldiers in the camps. The program, launched last September, connects troops with civilian hosts who welcome them as family, reflecting the city’s diverse origins and widespread hometown ties.
San Antonio Hosts Soldiers Through Home Folks Plan
The Home Folks column reveals how San Antonio civilians opened their homes and hearts to visiting soldiers in wartime, fulfilling invitations to dinners and Sunday meals, visiting hospital patients, and arranging social contacts. A Peoria, Illinois, soldier quickly found a network of local families, showing the city’s hospitality and the plan’s rapid popularity among service members and civilians alike.
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Museneliusetia
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Peoria
Eadlior
Maine
New Hampshire
Montana
Minnesota
New York
Pennsylvania
Centar
the Light
Light
France
Iad
Home Folks
Erie
Fred
Ecourse
Information Bureau Answers All Questions in San Antonio
The Information Bureau at the War Service Board on Alamo Plaza gathers inquirers from across the U S and territories. Mrs Johnnie A Jones heads the bureau handling thousands of questions about soldiers and Kelly Field. The most common query asks how to reach Kelly Field from here.
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War Service Board
Alamo Plaza
Kelly Field Eagle
United States
Johnnie A. Jones
Information Bureau
Kelly Field
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Boston Transcript
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Chandler
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National Park
West Houston
Corner Laredo
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