Club Manitou of Harbor Springs

Club Manitou was an infamous mid-west summer resort nightclub-casino located in Harbor Springs in northern Michigan, United States that existed from 1929 until 1952. It was a speakeasy run by The Purple Gang during Prohibition and the Great Depression years featuring a hidden basement of gambling and alcohol for wealthy Midwestern summer Resort goers

Northwest northern lower Michigan has been the mid-west's summer playground for the wealthy since the 1890s. The Swift's, the Armour's, the Wrigley's, Gamble's , Ford's and Wilson's all called northern Michigan's Harbor Springs-Petoskey their summer resort homes. The 1930s era of northwest lower Michigan was particularly a time of gala summer resort tourism despite the United States being in the throes of a deepening Great Depression. Besides Mackinac Island, the top summer resort town in the area, known as the "Tip of the Mitt", was Harbor Springs, a small village located on Little Traverse Bay. Little Traverse Bay, on Lake Michigan, was a sail boater's paradise. Petoskey, Michigan, located across the bay from Harbor Springs, was the first small northern Lake Michigan town to draw a summer clientele interested in relief from the city heat. Harbor Springs soon followed. Mid-western city dwellers also came north for the freedom from the suffering of hay fever and other allergies.

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