old farts, obsolete clubs and other Petco thread distraction

Ah darn, homeowner beat me to it.

Okay, fine...dare we mention The Vault, then? :twisted:

*runs away

jeffrey wrote: Or wait, there was another club on Varick there, on the west side of the street...hm...not remembering.

Heartbreak was also on the west side of Varick between Prince and Spring - before it became Culture Club.....

homeowner wrote: Okay, but if y'all are going to go there, you have to include the Garage, which was the best after hours club EVER! (until Verizon reclaimed it so they could use the space as a garage). I remember all the transvestites in the unisex bathrooms shaking their heads at us poor 17 and 18 yr old waifs that used to show up to dance in our ripped t-shirts and bike shorts.

Dancing until 6am then breakfast at the diner on 6th Avenue across from the Dime Savings Bank. Those were the days...

OMG Homeowner - I loved my Paradise Garage!!! And I remember the t-shirt and bike pants and the liquid eyeliner that you would bring to a point at the corner of your eye
I also remember Gothams, Bonds, Ones, Danceteria, Fun House, Roseland and then hitting the beach the next day!

This was my Garage days:

VoodooNYC wrote: [quote=jeffrey]Or wait, there was another club on Varick there, on the west side of the street...hm...not remembering.

Heartbreak was also on the west side of Varick between Prince and Spring - before it became Culture Club.....

Voodoo beat me to it. Heartbreaks is/was my guess for Varick

jeffrey wrote: Okay, fine...dare we mention The Vault, then?

ahaha The Vault - what a pit.

^ look forward to some pretty messed-up dreams tonight, lol...

Jeffrey- NV, really, are we going there?

You know what this means, don't you? We've all been hanging out together since we were in high school and never knew it... :shock:

haaaaa

and for those from DC:
I give you memories of the Bayou, Posers, and Tracks.

Ha! Tracks! I saw a ton of live shows down there by the water at the Bayou.

Right back atcha:

5th Column! 15 Minute club! Cities!

(1/2 of my college spent there, before transferring back up here)

In high school, DC's drinking age was 18.

VA's was 21.

...which meant (in addition to club going):

Seniors who lived in Arlington walked across Key Bridge to the Key Bridge bottle shop with an empty bookbag, then walked back with a full bookbag.

^ short walk from there to Winstons.

Okay, I have another:

Nell's on 14th at 8th ave had a really good run during its heyday.

^I miss Nell's (although the downstairs was always a sauna).

Did anyone mention Area yet?

VoodooNYC wrote: ^I miss Nell's (although the downstairs was always a sauna).

Did anyone mention Area yet?

I almost forgot about Area! And of course if you couldn't get in there you went to Xenon

Then there was the Copa :oops:

^^ha at the Copa. Another one I almost forgot about was The Roxy on W. 18th.

stacey wrote: [quote=VoodooNYC]^I miss Nell's (although the downstairs was always a sauna).

Did anyone mention Area yet?

I almost forgot about Area! And of course if you couldn't get in there you went to Xenon

Then there was the Copa :oops:



ack! I got suckered into going to the Copa once when a friend was in town from Mexico. Ay yi yi. I can see how it might have been fun in the '50s, but it was just like a bad prom in there - lots of taffeta and hair spray.

We went to Xenon when we couldn't get into Studio 54. Ha. Poor Xenon - always a bridesmaid :-)


I have so many pictures of the ex and me at The Underground. I like to torture him by showing them to his (now) wife - 25 years later. His long hair, earring, etc. still makes me giggle. I, of course, looked fabulous

The vault, the underground, the tunnel. I have vague memories of going there but they are melted into my clubbing days in South Beach, Miami.

Limelight? I remember going in, coming out and nothing in between.

I swear I never did drugs!

<----will not swear she never did drugs.

The Vault was a lot different than the Tunnel and/or Underground. I have a feeling you'd remember ;-)

(pssst.....you do know it was a sex club, right?)

homeowner wrote: Jeffrey- NV, really, are we going there?

You know what this means, don't you? We've all been hanging out together since we were in high school and never knew it... :shock:

:shock: no kidding :shock:

I have a tank top from The Vault. I was wearing it Sunday. Just sayin'

And wtf, Save The Robots! My neighbor ran it. I loved that place because of who you'd run into there. Also, The World, 8BC and The Pyramid. I would say The Mudd Club, but that is just before my time.

What was that place on 14th St just a little after . . . The Cooler? The Fridge?
The Brooklyn Funk Essentials played there a bunch.

Domino wrote: OK - I remember the Underground - but since this is a shared senior moment: there was another club just a block or two away - - it had the carousel in it. What the hell was the name of that? Please don't say Peppermint Lounge -
I seem to remember the Peppermint Lounge as being in the midtown area - where people would drop beer bottles off the balcony onto the dance floor below.

There was another club on Varick right off Houston that was actually a cafeteria during the day but a dance club at night. Remember dancing WITH Billy Idol there.

FYI....Peppermint Lounge *was* in midtown - in the west 40s or so.

please to enjoy:

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which leads me to link pictures of DJ Kennedy from MTV's original era.

....yes, I had a serious crush on her.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;gbv=2&amp;tbs=isch:1&amp;sa=1&amp;q=kennedy+mtv&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=

The thread that keeps on giving. For the sake of thread integrity and google posterity, I want to add that not only was the Roxy a roller rink, but also home to Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash.

pitu wrote: Also, The World, 8BC and The Pyramid. I would say The Mudd Club, but that is just before my time.

8BC! Holy crap, totally forgot about that!

I've got two more for you. The Red Parrot on 57th and 11th, and the Shelter, directly across from the exit to the Holland Tunnel.

homeowner wrote: I've got two more for you. The Red Parrot on 57th and 11th, and the Shelter, directly across from the exit to the Holland Tunnel.

I remember Shelter all too well.

The Saint?

Yes, and yes! And the Red Parrot