Venue: Marines' Memorial Club
Town: California, US

The Marines' Memorial Club in San Francisco, California at 609 Sutter Street (at Mason), is a 501(c)19 nonprofit veterans charity and private social club for United States Marines and other veterans of the United States Armed Forces. The nonprofit Marines' Memorial Association owns the large building in the Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco that houses a hotel, theater, restaurant/bar, sports club, special event facilities, library, museum, memorial, and a military history bookstore. The facility was built as the Western Women's Club in 1926. The club operates under laws for 501(c)(19) Post or Organizations of War Veterans; in 2025 it claimed total revenue of $12,033,038 and total assets of $9,690,130. The separate Marines' Memorial Foundation supporting the club is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity. In 2025, it claimed total revenue of $1,296,558 and total assets of $1,305,909. The Western Women's Club building is a 12-story Beaux-Arts-style building, designed by the firm of Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville, and built in 1926. The Western Women's Club was a member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The Western Women's Club building was bought by the Marines Memorial Association in 1947. Western Women's Club had a later location at 111 O'Farrell Street. As a port city since its founding as a military base by Spain, San Francisco has been associated with military personnel - especially the navy - and merchant mariners. During World War II it was a point of embarcation for many service personnel in for the Pacific Theatre. Those who passed through the city before deployment would remember their experience and return after the war. The Marines' Memorial was opened as a club for veterans of the Marines, although membership is open to all United States servicemembers. Early in 1946, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, had proposed a "living memorial" to Marine casualties from the War in the Pacific. A group of Ma