Secrets of the Penthouse
SECRETS OF THE PENTHOUSE SPECIAL EVENT
Explore backstage inside Vancouver’s most infamous venue with club owner Danny Filippone and friends as your guides, armed with stories of vice squad busts, mobsters, bootlegging, Rat Pack parties, fire and murder. With a jazz band up on stage and spaghetti and meatballs served the way Mama Filippone made ‘em, this is a night you’ll remember forever!
Winner of City of Vancouver Heritage Medal of Honour
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You’ll discover…
Tales of rat pack parties
Where mobsters hid their cash
How the Filippones fought the law
Live jazz from the Russell Sholberg Trio
Where the booze was hidden from the cops
Unforgettable stories from celebrity writer Aaron Chapman
The inside scoop from retired police detective Grant MacDonald
Private spaces and rooms inside the club, closed to the public for decades
Italian buffet dinner served up with Mama Filippone’s original spaghetti and meatballs recipe from the old country. Veggie option also available!
And more!
MAY 24, 2023
APRIL 19, 2023 (SOLD OUT)
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
$70
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Prices do not include fees and taxes. Contact us for private tours.
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE
When you buy a ticket for this special event, two percent of the ticket cost goes to support Vancouver Based Variety – The Children’s Charity. Variety steps in were health care ends, to provide direct help to children in BC.
A TASTE OF THE TOUR
Serving up entertainment since 1947
In its 74 years the Penthouse has survived blue-nosed liquor laws, police-raids, fires, robberies, and even Covid 19. It has been a favourite watering hole of celebrity glitterati like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. The only place in Vancouver’s history where a judge, a crime boss and a dancing girl could rub shoulders without an eyebrow being raised. Remarkably, the Penthouse is still in business today. Still owned and managed by the Filippone family, just like in 1947.
City of Vancouver Award Winner!
We’re proud to announce our Secrets of the Penthouse special event was the recipient of a Medal of Honour at the 2019 City of Vancouver Heritage Awards for “demonstrating an outstanding contribution to heritage conservation, advocacy, education and awareness, or community revitalization.”
Thank you to all our supporters — it’s with your help that we’ve been able to stage Secrets of the Penthouse over 50 times and share so much remarkable Vancouver history and heritage with so many!
