# Old timey 'lodges'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623 "2012-01-06T14:49:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623/61 "2012-01-08T15:48:20Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> A friend of mine took me through the old Knights of Pythias building in my hometown. Fascinating place. There’s a huge meeting/ball/performance/ritual room on the top floor, complete with an organ and a carbon-arc projector of some kind.

In the downtown area of the little village of Saint Paris, Ohio (just 5 miles from me) is a door between two other businesses with “Knights of Pythias” written on it. I think it leads to an upstairs room. Have never seen anyone go in or out of the door.

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623/62 "2012-01-08T16:47:42Z")

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on Everybody Loves Raymond, his dad, Frank, belongs to some kind of lodge where he meets with his old-coot friends for naked swimming and saunas. It must be a godsend for Marie as it gets him out of the house.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623/63 "2012-01-08T18:59:47Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> My error, sorry.
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> [Association of Old Crows - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Old_Crows)  
> :smack:

No worries. I should have linked it myself, but I got lazy.

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623/64 "2012-01-09T01:19:42Z")

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It’s a man’s life in The Women’s Auxillary Balloon Corps.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timey-lodges/608623/65 "2012-01-09T14:21:05Z")

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There is a door downtown with very old lettering which says “Cooties meet here.”

I presume “Cooties” were a now-defunct fraternal organization. Did a quick search and couldn’t find a cite.

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