A Brief History of the Playboy Club

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Membership to the club — $50 for residents and $25 for out-of-towners — was represented with a key. The key became a status symbol; in fact, most keyholders never even visiting a Playboy Club. In 1961, TIME called it "the closest thing to Phi Beta Kappa from Yale."

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