What was the name of the Los Angeles nightclub that is recognised as being the world's first 'discotheque'?
"first ""Whisky à Gogo"" nightclub opened in Paris in 1947, drawing the ""Whisky"" part of its name from the whisky labels that lined its walls. In 1953 it became the first discotheque. The club was franchised, first in Chicago in 1958 and then in Los Angeles in 1964. In May 1964 the Los Angeles club was featured in Life magazine and by 1965 clubs called ""Whisky à Go-Go"" (or ""Whiskey à Go-Go"") had appeared in Milwaukee, Washington, San Francisco and Atlanta. In the Los Angeles club a new style of dance was taking place, as go-go dancers in short, fringed"
"Paradise Garage The Paradise Garage, also known as ""the Garage"" or the ""Gay-rage"", was a discotheque in New York City notable in the history of modern dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures. It was founded by Michael Brody (its sole proprietor) and was located at 84 King Street, in the Hudson Square neighborhood. It operated from 1977 to 1987 and was the base for resident DJ Larry Levan. The club's name derives from its origins as a parking garage. The Paradise Garage's business model was largely inspired by David Mancuso's private, invitation-only DJ parties at"
"Café Montmartre Café Montmartre (now Montmartre Lounge) was a restaurant and nightclub on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US. Opened in 1923, it became a ""worldwide center for celebrity and nightlife"" during the 1920s and a place where tourists would visit to try to break into Hollywood. In 1919, Charles E. Toberman bought the property at 6763 Hollywood Boulevard, and three years later, built a real estate office on the lot. The building, run by Meyer & Holler, included a first floor bank and Café Montmartre on the second floor. Café Montmartre was the first"
"the studio to produce ads. While Alan was a disc jockey at WHVW, some students at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. booked him—based on his highly rated afternoon drive show at the local top 40 radio powerhouse Live 95—to DJ a dance at the college promoted under the name 'Discotheque'. The dance was based on the discotheque club concept the students had discovered in Europe the previous summer. This event would become the first known discotheque dance in the United States. That same year, White and a business partner, Bill DeCesare (the WHVW sales manager), opened the first discotheque in"
"and a business partner, Bill DeCesare (the WHVW sales manager), opened the first discotheque in the United States, the Rumpus Room Nightclub & Discotheque, in Dover Plains, N.Y., where the drinking age was 18. The Rumpus Room was only a few miles from the Connecticut border, where the legal drinking age was 21, and the club was wildly successful until it was destroyed by fire in the early 1970s. The club featured live bands, DJ'd music from White, and headline performances from noted recording stars. By deejaying professionally from a booth at the club, White unintentionally became the first professional"
"a dance club, Teenbeat Club, which was reportedly the first teen dance club in the world and was owned by former County Commissioner Steve Miller. Club Paradise (club) Club Paradise is an upscale, award-winning Las Vegas strip club. The club gained infamy in the late nineties when its owner, Sam Cecola, was indicted for tax fraud and having alleged ties to the Chicago Outfit. It was revealed that the club served as an outpost and hang-out for many underworld figures including Chicago crime associates. Subsequently, he was listed for nomination in the Black Book and transferred ownership to his wife."
"nightclub and it became the first, foremost and hottest disco in New York City through 1969. Disco has its roots in the underground club scene. During the early 1970s in New York City, disco clubs were places where oppressed or marginalized groups such as homosexuals, blacks, Latinos, Italian-Americans, and Jews could party without following male to female dance protocol or exclusive club policies. Discoteques had a law where for every three men, there was one woman. This shifted the idea of this post-heterosexist community, as women could be seen as a kind of gateway for men to advance their own"
"La Martinique ""For the French territory, see Martinique."" La Martinique was a popular nightclub in New York City, United States during the 1940s. Situated in a basement at 57 West 57th Street, the club was owned and operated by Dario Goldfarb and Jim Vernon. It was at La Martinique that Mr. & Mrs. Walt Disney would host the after party following the October 23, 1941 premiere of ""Dumbo"" at the Broadway theatre. The club is remembered for launching the careers of many singers of the era, including Dick Haymes, Danny Kaye, Jackie Miles and Zero Mostel, as well as playing"
"Finocchio's Club Finocchio's was a nightclub and bar in San Francisco. The history of the club started as a speakeasy called the 201 Club in 1929, located at 406 Stockton Street. In 1933, with the repeal of prohibition, the club moved upstairs and started to offer female impersonation acts; after police raids in 1936 the club relocated to the larger 506 Broadway location. Finocchio's night club opened June 15, 1936 and was located in San Francisco, California, above Enrico's Cafe at 506 Broadway Street in North Beach. The term ""Finocchio"" is Italian for fennel but is often a negative term"
"stage. Club Disney was the first to be launched, with birthday party reservations for its first location opening up on January 15, 1997. On February 21, 1997, its first location opened to the public at the Westlake Promenade in Thousand Oaks, California with Eisner present alongside Mickey Mouse and Goofy. A dozen protested outside over wages, 28 cents, paid to Haitian workers to make Pocahontas pajamas. 20 Ventura County sheriff's deputies were on hand as Disney expected tens of thousands to show up. While the lines were long to get in, the expected turn out did not materialize with 1,000"
"got its name from a sign the first owner, Robert Steger, picked up for free at a going-out-of-business sale at the local zoo in Holy City, California. He had stopped there to buy redwood tables and chairs for the club. At that time, the Holy City Zoo was a folk music club. The first comedian to play the club on an open mike night was Jim Giovanni, an impressionist, circa 1971. There was no comedy scene at the Holy City Zoo prior to Giovanni's appearance, and he remained at that locale performing comedy nightly for close to three years. Later,"
"to learn English as well as au pair girls from most of western Europe. In the early 1960s, Mark Birley opened a members-only discothèque nightclub, Annabel's, in Berkeley Square, London. In 1962, the Peppermint Lounge in New York City became popular and is the place where go-go dancing originated. However, the first rock and roll generation preferred rough and tumble bars and taverns to nightclubs, and the nightclub did not attain mainstream popularity until the 1970s disco era. Sybil Burton opened the ""Arthur"" discothèque in 1965 on East 54th Street in Manhattan on the site of the old El Morocco"
"Bootie (club night) Bootie is the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to mashups and bootlegs, and is now the biggest all-mashup party in the world, with regular parties in several cities. The original party began at the Cherry Bar (now Codeword) in San Francisco in August 2003, and moved to DNA Lounge in March 2006, where it now occurs every Saturday, and is simulcast into the virtual venue The Level in Second Life. For over a year, it was the only club of its kind in America, and its creators, DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D"
"Disco Fever Disco Fever was a New York City dance club located in the South Bronx on Jerome Avenue and 167th street that operated from 1976 to 1986. After initially failing to draw very many customers, Sal Abbatiello convinced his father, the owner, to hand over the reins. Abbatiello quickly began featuring hip hop artists including a young Grandmaster Flash, and the club greatly increased in popularity and fame. Hip hop group Run-D.M.C. performed their first show at the club. The club started out as a neighborhood bar. Albert ""Allie"" Abbatiello, an Italian American, already operated two nightclubs in the"
"The Fania All-Stars brought together the leading lights in Latin music styles (descarga, mambo, boogaloo, merengue, folkloric) and presented a single concert drawing from these diverse influences. Although the term ""salsa"" had been used in Latin music dating back to at least Pupi Legarreta's 1962 LP ""Salsa Nova"", this modern combination of styles being presented at the Cheetah Club began to become popularly known under the umbrella term ""salsa"". Cheetah (nightclub) Cheetah was a discotheque in Manhattan, New York City which opened May 28, 1966, and closed in the 1970s. The club was located at 53rd Street and Broadway. Robert"
"Catacombs Nightclub Philadelphia The Catacombs Nightclub was a gay after hours nightclub in Philadelphia that played underground dance music which became the precursor to house music. Additionally, Catacombs was responsible for the creation of the dance music genre ""Philly Classics,"" and as a cultural center the club was a haven for music industry professionals and artists of diverse backgrounds in the early 80's. Second Story, Philadelphia’s premier nightclub, was located at 12th and Walnut Streets in Center City Philadelphia. ""The Story""—as it was lovingly called by the weekly regulars—was the vision of brothers Barry Geftman and Wayne Geftman. The Geftman"
"Cactus Club The Cactus Club was a nightclub in the South of First Area (SoFA) of Downtown San Jose, California. It was one of the first clubs to replace some of the 'red light' businesses on South First Street (across the street was the Pussycat Theater which later became F/X). The Cactus Club took over The Bachelor Club and went on to become a legendary live music venue in San Jose for close to 15 years. The concept of The Cactus Club was created by Sean Galvin and Mike Trippett. It was Producer/Promoter Ric Hines who made the opening of"
"and their place of work, so many were turned away. Knowing this, Mancuso set up a meeting for about twenty-five local New York DJs and members of record labels to meet and discuss this recurring issue at Club Hollywood. According to Mancuso, the meeting ended in a “total disaster” and resulted in a screaming match between the disc jockeys and record companies. Mancuso decided to have a separate meeting with the disc jockeys alone and invited them over to The Loft, where they declared their intent regarding fair music distribution for DJs everywhere. It was then that the first record"
"by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. Mike Watt and Firehose recorded the band's iconic ""Live Totem Pole"" EP at the Palomino on August 16, 1991. The Palomino was honored several times as Club of the Year by Performance Magazine, a touring trade publication. Palomino Club (North Hollywood) The Palomino Club was a music venue in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. It opened in 1949 and was the best-known country music club in Los Angeles for decades, closing in 1995. It was called ""Country Music's most important West Coast club"" by the ""Los Angeles Times"" and named"
"new establishment on the original La Martinique site in 1952. La Martinique ""For the French territory, see Martinique."" La Martinique was a popular nightclub in New York City, United States during the 1940s. Situated in a basement at 57 West 57th Street, the club was owned and operated by Dario Goldfarb and Jim Vernon. It was at La Martinique that Mr. & Mrs. Walt Disney would host the after party following the October 23, 1941 premiere of ""Dumbo"" at the Broadway theatre. The club is remembered for launching the careers of many singers of the era, including Dick Haymes, Danny"
"small! It was what is commonly known today as shoebox size and configuration with a long stage. Starwood (nightclub) The Starwood was a popular nightclub and music venue in West Hollywood, California from early 1973 to 1981. Many punk bands and heavy metal bands started their careers playing at the club. The Starwood was located on the northwest corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and North Crescent Heights Blvd. The Starwood was preceded by P.J.'s, a fashionable jazz and pop music nightclub during the 1960s, which attracted a large number of film and TV personalities, and some old school jazz musicians."
"the sales of food over liquor, but offered the same live stage presentations. In a syndicated column describing his innovations in the ""New York Times"", Granlund is credited with having invented the modern nightclub. His Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway set all-time night club entertainment standards. The famed Paradise Restaurant in New York City was also his creation. His ""Congress of Beauty"" exhibition at the 1939 New York World's Fair met with mixed reviews and financial disaster, forcing Granlund to shut down the showgirl revue early. Within a year, he relocated to California, setting up a chorus line revue at Hollywood's"
"Mocambo (nightclub) The Mocambo was a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8588 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It was owned by Charlie Morrison and Felix Young. The Mocambo opened on January 3, 1941, and became an immediate success. The club's Latin American-themed decor designed by Tony Duquette cost $100,000 (). Along the walls were glass cages holding live cockatoos, macaws, seagulls, pigeons, and parrots. With big band music, the club became one of the most popular dance-till-dawn spots in town. On any given night, one might find the room filled with the leading men and women of the"
"Club, the Gulf Coast's most elegant night club at the time. Rose's ability to intimidate made him an enforcer in the organization early on. Fortuitous arrests of the leaders of the gangs allowed the Maceo brothers to gain control of the island's underworld. The Maceos gradually invested in numerous clubs and other entertainment ventures in the city involving gambling and bootlegging. Their other big venture, besides the Hollywood, was a club and casino called Maceo's Grotto (later renamed the Balinese Room) which opened in 1929. The Maceos soon controlled most of the gambling, prostitution, and other vice on the island."
"Condor Club The Condor Club nightclub is a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco, California The club opened in 1964. The club is located at the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue. The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of Carol Doda. The sign had red lights on the image of her breasts. She was the first topless entertainer there and the most famous. Her première topless dance occurred on the evening of June 19, 1964. The club went ""bottomlessness"" with the dancers performing fully nude, on September"
"The Gallery (disco) The Gallery was a disco in SoHo, Manhattan which was opened in February 1973 by disc jockey Nicky Siano and his older brother Joe Siano. The first location of The Gallery, located on 132 West 22nd Street, closed in July 1974. It reopened in November 1974 at 172 Mercer and Houston Streets and closed in October 1977. Famed DJs Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles both worked at the club, but not at the DJ booth. Grace Jones and Loleatta Holloway both made their debut performances at The Gallery. The disco era produced an attitude and culture popular"
"Line"". Between programs, he either sold advertising for the station or worked in the studio to produce ads. Banking upon the notoriety of his highly rated WHVW afternoon drive show, White was hired by some students at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to DJ a themed dance at the college promoted under the name 'Discotheque'. The dance was based on the discotheque club concept the students had discovered in Europe the previous summer. This event would become the first known discotheque dance in the United States. That same year, based on what he had learned at the Vassar dance, White"
"Warehouse (nightclub) The Warehouse was a nightclub established in Chicago, Illinois in 1977 under the direction of Robert Williams. It is today most famous for being what many consider to be the birthplace of house music, specifically Chicago house, and the genre's center in the United States while under its first musical director, DJ Frankie Knuckles. A broad spectrum of dance music was played there; however, first and foremost were R'n'B and Disco. Knuckles experimented with different possibilities of developing an original expression, mixing disco music with European electronic music. DJ History reports: ""The style of music now known as"
"Copacabana (nightclub) The Copacabana is a New York City nightclub. Many entertainers, such as Danny Thomas, Pat Cooper and the comedy team of Martin and Lewis, made their New York debuts at the Copacabana. The Barry Manilow song ""Copacabana"" (1978) is named after the club. The nightclub was used as a setting in the films: ""Goodfellas"", ""Raging Bull"", ""Tootsie"", ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"", ""Carlito's Way"", ""The French Connection"", ""Martin and Lewis"", ""Green Book"" and ""Beyond the Sea"". It was also used in several plays, including Barry Manilow's ""Copacabana"". Also the musical film ""Copacabana"" (1947), starring Groucho Marx and Carmen"
"Chicago (1977–1982). Since the late 2000s, two venues that received particularly high media attention were Berghain in Berlin and Fabric in London. In some languages, nightclubs are also referred to as ""discos"" or ""discothèques"" ( or (outdated; nowadays: ); ; Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: ""discoteca,"" ""antro"" (common in Mexico), and ""boliche"" (common in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay), ""discos"" is commonly used in all others in Latinamerica). In Japanese ディスコ, ""disuko"" refers to an older, smaller, less fashionable venue; while クラブ, ""kurabu"" refers to a more recent, larger, more popular venue. The term ""night"" is used to refer to an evening"
"an elevator vestibule between the VIP room and the coat check. Burress pleaded guilty to charges and received a 2-year prison sentence. The recent events led to a Manhattan Community Board 6 recommendation not to renew the club's liquor license. Latin Quarter (nightclub) Latin Quarter (also known as LQ) is a nightclub in New York City. The club which originally opened in 1942 featured big name acts. In recent years it has been a focus of hip hop, reggaeton and salsa music. Its history is similar to that of its competitor the Copacabana. Lou Walters, father of Barbara Walters, opened"
"had elaborate lighting systems that throbbed to the beat of the music. In the 1970s, notable discos included ""Artemis"" in Philadelphia, ""Studio One"" in Los Angeles, ""Leviticus"" in New York, ""Dugan's Bistro"" in Chicago, and ""The Library"" in Atlanta. In the late 70s, Studio 54 in New York City was arguably the most well known nightclub in the world. This club played a major formative role in the growth of disco music and nightclub culture in general. The Copacabana, another New York nightclub dating to the 1940s, had a revival in the late 1970s when it embraced disco; it would"
"Club Fuck! Club Fuck! also known as FUCK! was a nightclub that officially began the summer of 1989 and was hosted by Miguel Beristain, Cliff Diller, and James Stone. The weekly party was located at Basgo’s Disco in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. The event lasted till 1993, when it was raided by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Vice Division. FUCK! constituted a gritty liminal space oppositional to both the neighborhood’s largely men-only leather bars as well as the clean-cut bars of West Hollywood. At FUCK! the modified, pierced, and tattooed body was front and center. Scarring, mummification,"