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Fremantle Rotary Club
1928-present
Unlike most of the other clubs noted on this site, the Rotary Club has never needed its own building to exist: it is more of an idea than a place.
The meeting which brought the Club into existence was held in the Chamber of Commerce building, but the first meetings were held in the Orient Hotel, beginning either 11 July or 28 September 1928, as Jack Lee gives those and other dates, in his usual casual style (pp. 7-10).
According to his unreliable history, further meetings were held at the Cleopatra Hotel, the Four Seasons Restaurant, the Rendezvous Cafe, the Cabin Tea Rooms, the Fremantle Club (Bannister Street), Ivanhoe Lodge, the (second) Masonic Hall (High Street east, cnr Chalmers Street), and then in the Dominion Room of the Fremantle Trotting Club (Richmond Raceway).
In 2021, the Club meets twice a month at the Fremantle Sailing Club.
References and Links
Lee, Jack 1989, Rotary in Fremantle (1928-1988), Rotary Club of Fremantle.
Fremantle Rotary Club website.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 28 December, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/clubs/rotary.html (it was last updated on 8 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.