So one thing about country clubs, Elks Lodges, etc is that their systems are often structured such that your spending on meals, etc. there counts against your dues for the month, so no less than Blue Apron they were a subscription meal service for young professionals who did not have a dedicated food-preparer at home.

Lodges also formed a network of, uh, private public houses, where travelers could find vetted sociality and lodging away from home. (The “motel”, “motor hotel”, is called and iconically looks like that because it only arose with the development of a motorway network; earlier rural travelers, including early car travelers set up tent-and-campfire encampments in empty fields along the way.)