Appleton Pickle Club |
3rd Wednesday of each month 5-8pm
🥒 Introducing the Appleton Pickle Club🥒
Looking for a place where bold ideas, weird questions, and progressive minds can actually meet each other off the algorithm?
Same. So we’re reviving something delightfully odd and historically scrappy.
Inspired by Chicago’s original Dill Pickle Club—that gloriously unruly 1920s haven for artists, activists, freethinkers, and folks who (politely) refused to shut up—we’re bringing its spirit to Appleton. But with fewer bootleggers and more NA spritzes.
Expect a monthly mash-up of conversation, curiosity, creativity, and community.
No prerequisites. No gatekeeping. No “well actually” guys.
Just people who care about ideas, progress, and being decent humans.
Whether you’re here to connect, collaborate, or simply hang out somewhere that isn’t yelling about sports—hi, welcome, you’re our people.
History of the Chicago Dill Pickle Club
Chicago’s Dill Pickle Club: Where Anarchists Mixed With Doctors And Poets
By Quinn Meyers (Feb 2019)
— This piece from WBEZ dives into the story of Chicago’s early-20th-century Dill Pickle Club: a bohemian space where radical politics, art, queer expression, and intellectual debate collided in one alleyway. It charts the club’s origins, its eclectic mix of thinkers and makers, its cultural impact, and what its legacy can tell us about creative community spaces today.
If the Appleton Pickle Club sparks your curiosity, you might also love our Sociology Bookclub. It’s the same spirit of lively conversation, big ideas, and friendly debate—just with a reading list. Join us as we dig into culture, systems, justice, and all the wonderfully complicated stuff that makes society tick. Come for the insights, stay for the people (and the mocktails).