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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 34 social clubs
Best social clubs in Los Angeles
The 10 most notable social clubs in Los Angeles, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Most Worshipful Sons Of Light Grand Lodge
4511 Avalon Blvd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.584, percentile 100 of 34
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2
Women's City Club Of Pasadena
160 N Oakland Ave
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.576, percentile 96.97 of 34
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3
Elks Lodge #2098
10137 Commerce Ave
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.523, percentile 93.94 of 34
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4
Glendale Elks Lodge #1289
120 E Colorado St
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.397, percentile 90.91 of 34
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5
El Camino Club
7701 Santa Fe Ave
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.295, percentile 87.88 of 34
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6
American Legion Post 465
7550 Eastern Ave
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.243, percentile 84.85 of 34
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7
The Britely
8430 W Sunset Blvd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.243, percentile 81.82 of 34
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8
Vietnam Veterans Of America
1000 E Walnut St # 207
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.116, percentile 78.79 of 34
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9
West Los Angeles Bird Club
5309 Sepulveda Blvd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.034, percentile 75.76 of 34
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10
Veterans Advocacy Group of America
1139 E Dominguez St Ste B
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.034, percentile 72.73 of 34
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).