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- Shel Silverstein's History of Playboy - Part Three
Shel Silverstein's History of Playboy - Part Three
| Shel Silverstein's personal chronicle of the first ten years in the life of Playboy magazine | ||
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Early in 1960 Hugh Hefner opened the first Playboy Club. It was an immediate success and he began making plans for similar key clubs in major cities throughout the United States and abroad, including a $4 million Playboy Club in New York and a $10 million Playboy Club and Hotel in Hollywood. Since Hef first started Playboy on a few hundred dollars in 1953 after quitting his $60-a-week job with Esquire because they refused to give him a $5 raise, these new plans for expansion made it necessary to secure sizable long-term financing.
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The Playboy Clubs proved even more successful than the magazine. They drew their decor and concept from the pages of Playboy and offered a place of glamor and entertainment to the sophisticated, urban man about town.
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