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First there’ll be a history lesson, then the update. In November of 2016 the Gray Twilight blog told the story of a Louisville civic institution, located at 1127 Logan Street in Shelby Park, and as of 2023 coming around again as a bar and music venue.
History of Keswick Democratic Club…or how to go from FDR Politics to Gambling Raids to Punk Rock Venue in 81 years
Louisville natives with an eye for retro design will recognize the circa 1950 neon and porcelain “KDC” sign jutting from the three-story red brick building at the corner of Logan and Mary Streets in Germantown. The throwback sign identifies what was, for more than 80 years, the Keswick Democratic Club.
What began as a traditional Democratic Club, meeting in the founders’ homes on Texas Avenue in the mid-1930s, had, by the 1970s, evolved to a pure social club, fully untethered from party politics. Along the way, it acquired a building, investment property,...Read more
