Bunny Club London

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Bunny Club London England

• A new Playboy Club is to open in London this weekend, three decades after the last one closed. The club's history in London dates back to the swinging 60s and the legalisation of gambling in the UK after World War II. The club on Park Lane, opened in 1966, was the first Playboy Club in Europe.
• English girls were flown to America to train as Playboy bunnies - waitresses and croupiers - in preparation for the London opening.
• It is believed that Hugh Hefner, the publisher of Playboy, was inspired to open drinking and gambling clubs with women dressed in velvet, after he visited the chain of Gaslight Clubs in Chicago.
• London's Playboy club soon became a regular haunt for the rich and famous including, above, Frank Sinatra.
• French actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bond girl Ursula Andress and American actor James Garner enjoying a bite to eat at the London Playboy club.
• The presence of influential critic and writer, Kenneth Tynan, shows that intellectuals also made themselves at home in the club.
• As well as eating, drinking and gambling, there was also live entertainment on offer at the Playboy club.
• In 1972, some of the Bunny Girl waitresses at the London Playboy Club recorded an album as the 'Singing Bunnies'.
• However, it was not all singing and dancing. In 1974, Bunny girls at the club went on strike because they wanted management to recognise them as members of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
• The London Playboy club closed in 1981 after its gambling licence was not renewed.
• The Playboy Club will return to London on Saturday, 30 years after the original closed. New croupier bunnies all received intensive training over 11 weeks and the bunny outfits, specially fitted for each girl, were given a modern twist by the Marchesa fashion house.

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1966 token or gaming coin for the Playboy Club in London, England. Soon after gambling was legalized in the United Kingdom in 1965, a Playboy Club opened in the English capital. The Playboy Bunny is on one side and a picture of a key is on the reverse. Natalie Deegan, right, pictured with a bunny pal, is Head Bunny at London's exclusive Playboy Club Credit: Supplied 18 Natalie has been working at the club for nearly six years. Golfing Rabbit by HAM is the newest addition to their collection! Available from Print Club London's online gallery now and FREE UK SHIPPING. Find this Pin and more on Logo by Kirin. Rabbit Silhouette.

Bunny Club London Uk

• Bunny girls will return to London next year with the opening of a new Playboy Club, Hugh Hefner announced today. The venue was once the height of decadence when it opened in the swinging Sixties.
• A minimum of five women were chosen to travel to Macao for a six-month contract as a Playboy Bunny. The Macao Playboy Club opened on November 24, 2010. In October 2010, it was announced that a new Playboy Club in London was to be opened on the site of the old Rendezvous Mayfair Casino 14 Old Park Lane. It was opened on June 4, 2011.