“Decision Due on Topanga Club”
Whether or not dancing will be allowed at the Canyon Club at 20241 Callon Drive in Topanga will be decided by Judge John J. Merrick in Malibu Justice Court next Wednesday [Sept. 15].
The legal troubles of the Canyon Club began in May, 1964, when the county’s Public Welfare Commission revoked the club’s dancing license when sheriffs’ deputies testified that “males were dancing with males.” Philip B. Ewing, owner of the club, argued through his attorney, that the club was a private swim club and the dancing was only incidental.
There have been several court hearings on the case, the last a hearing before Judge Merrick on July 15.
