Los Angeles
A neighborhood club for Eagle Rock
A quiet valley between two hill ranges, organized around Colorado Boulevard. $49 a month, and everything inside at a 10% mark-up.
Eagle Rock is residential in a way its neighbors are not. Single-family houses, wide streets, a college at one end, and Colorado Boulevard running east to west through the middle. People here drive to Glendale or Pasadena for anything they cannot get locally. A club on Colorado would be the first thing in walking distance for a lot of households.
What going out in Eagle Rock costs
Colorado Boulevard is the whole commercial life of the neighborhood, and it is six lanes wide, so walking it is possible but unpleasant. Most trips are a short drive with easy parking, which is the local luxury. Costs are the same as the rest of the Eastside once you sit down: around eighteen for a cocktail, high twenties for an entree, seven for coffee and a pastry. Three nights out a month is already three hundred dollars. Thirty-nine dollars a month and at-cost pricing is a different structure entirely.
| Per week | In Los Angeles | At IRL | Saved / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekday coffee (5 a week) | $7 | $3 | $87 |
| Lunch out (2 a week) | $20 | $6 | $121 |
| Drinks (4 a week) | $18 | $4 | $242 |
| Dinner out (1 a week) | $30 | $8 | $95 |
| Monthly total | $766 | $270* | $497 |
*Includes the $49 monthly membership. Menu prices only, before tax and tip in the Los Angeles column, which is where the real gap gets wider. Annual difference: $5,959.
Nothing on that list is extravagant. Five coffees, two lunches, four drinks and one dinner is a quiet week. At Los Angeles prices it still comes to $766 a month, which is $5,959 a year more than the same week costs at cost plus ten percent.
Join the waitlist
Get a club in Eagle Rock
Join the waitlist. We open a neighborhood once enough people nearby are on the list, and memberships open in pairs or groups, so bring someone.
One quick thing —
You are on the list.
Memberships open in pairs (or more). People referred together join together, and bigger groups move up the list.
$49/month when we open. No card now. Leaving the waitlist is one click.
Making friends in Eagle Rock
This is a neighborhood of homeowners, many with kids, and the social infrastructure is school pickup and youth sports. That works if you have children and leaves a gap if you are thirty and renting. The gap is wide here because there is almost nowhere to sit that is not attached to an errand. Regular evening hours, a fixed room, and people who come in pairs because membership opens in pairs would give the under-forty half of Eagle Rock somewhere to go.
The mechanism matters more than the intention. A club has opening hours, a membership list, and a monthly volunteer shift, which means you end up in the same room as the same people on purpose and without scheduling anything. More on that in how to make friends in Los Angeles.
Where a Eagle Rock club would sit
We draw a walking radius, not a city boundary. A club only works if getting there is a short enough walk that you go without deciding to go. The first Los Angeles club is planned for Atwater Village. Eagle Rock opens when enough people here are on the list, which is the only thing that decides the order.
Landmarks inside or bordering the radius: Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock Recreation Center, Occidental College, Eagle Rock Branch Library, Eagle Rock City Hall.
The short version
- $49 a month. That is the whole membership. No initiation, no minimum spend.
- Everything at a 10% mark-up. $2 drip coffee, $3 latte, $4 cocktails, $6 lunch, $8 dinner.
- A 3-hour shift a month, if you want to. Plus one park day. Not mandatory, and it is the fastest way to actually meet the other members.
- Memberships open in pairs or groups. Anyone who joins through your link is in your group, and bigger groups move up the Eagle Rock list together.
Near Eagle Rock
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Questions
- Is there an IRL club in Eagle Rock yet?
- Not yet. Every neighborhood starts as a waitlist, and the first Los Angeles club is planned for Atwater Village. We open a neighborhood once enough people who live nearby have signed up, so the Eagle Rock list is what decides whether and when a club opens here.
- How much does the Eagle Rock club cost?
- $49 a month, the same in every neighborhood. Inside, the menu runs at cost plus a 10% mark-up: $2 drip coffee, $3 lattes, $4 cocktails, $6 lunch, $8 dinner. There is no initiation fee, no minimum spend and no card required to sit on the waitlist.
- How much would a Eagle Rock member actually save?
- On a normal week of five coffees, two lunches, four drinks and one dinner, Los Angeles menu prices come to about $766 a month. The same week at IRL is about $270 including the membership, a difference of roughly $5,959 a year before tax and tip.
- Do I have to live in Eagle Rock to join?
- No, but it helps your position. Clubs are built around a walking radius, so we weight the list toward people who actually live close enough to drop in without planning it. You can join the Eagle Rock list from anywhere and tell us whether you live locally.
- What is the volunteer shift?
- Members are asked to work one three-hour shift a month, and to join one park clean-up day a month. Neither is mandatory. Both exist because they keep the cost base low enough to sell a cocktail for $4, and because working a shift next to someone is a faster way to meet them than standing near them at a bar.