Friday night is gay night. details and he wanted to know if I would go back & get some plaques The site . Television shows like Don Cornelius Soul Train brought the craze into living rooms across the country. The younger Alper says he enjoys the current bar scene in Huntington and Patchogue, including spots like Finley's of Green Street and Christopher's (both in Huntington) and Dublin Deck (Patchogue), adding that a lot of the places he goes to have abar area with DJ and a dance floor. Copyright 2023 Newsday. Cohen-Oren fondly recalls the heyday of club dancing on LI. Have an idea youd like us to explore? Behold, then, the perfect uplifting surprise for a Monday morning from Meryl Meislers latest exhibition and book, SASSY 70s NYC, which is currently showing at Midoma Gallery in New York. disco dance party put on those dancing shoes and come dance to the greatest disco hits of the 70s & 80s with dj plax of 103.1 fm also hosted by mickey b also appearing nicole vanessa ortiz making her longisland appearance and performing that night at 2183 jackson ave in seaford from 8-1 ticket are 38.00 with a full hot buffet or 15.00 no food partial proceeds will be going to the think first . The scene onMay 17, 2003 inside Brazil Night Club in Hampton Bays. Anyone have info-please forward. Discotheques are not new to the Island. Two lengths of rust-resistant chain & 4 chrome plated hooks can be Miss Nessim, a 22yearold secretary from Commack, said she thought the early popularity of Chaz would die down. For Corey Cohen-Oren, the demise of the Generation X club life issimply the nature of growing up. Left: A man blowing a whistle in a sparkling purple outfit dances at Studio 54, 1979. Among them, and perhaps the most popular, was Neptune Beach Club. And though it was open for a mere 16 years and has long since dimmed its lights, it will always hold a fond place in the hearts of many a local music fan. They set minimum age of 21 for admission and put up signs saying No dungarees.. : "http://www. With the new caste system in discos, however, bar hopping is becoming more difficult. Kristy Addison has been a New York-based writer since 2003. Such fond memories of him at my house every weekend in his ever present skull cap and stinky, I was a part time junior ski instructor at Bald Hill during two winter seasons. Remember them all. a link to my list of hundreds of WWII AAF, USN, USMC Squadron Patches, They came to be entertained. Copyright 2023 Newsday. These stock plates were ordered hanging dice & poodle skirts, greasers, gassers, track, wide track, Meryl Meisler: SASSY 70s NYCis at Midoma Gallery, New York until January 6, 2017. The use of car club plaques seems to have started in I wish we were in that era, says 27-year-old Alexa Toscano, a hair stylist from Lynbrook. Bedrosian, whose current ventures include hisNew York Burger Bars in Massapequa and Babylon Village, describes restaurants such as Rare 650 in Syosset and Hendricks Tavern as the new social scenes of today, still steadily drawing the 40-and-over audience with DJ parties that spin much of the music Gen X Long Islanders danced to 20 years ago. Right: A woman dances amid other partygoers at Studio 54, 1977. This is a place for the simple people, not the stars. Now it's my turn to down size, so I am going to sell these plaques and "Were these your friends plates?" Chaz, a disco in Huntington, is next to a supermarket. 21. I went there (to 2001) once for my 18th birthday in 1979, wrote Jim McGee of Rochester. I think bars are good for meeting up after work for a few drinks or day drinking on weekends, says Ryan Dempsey, 25, from Hicksville, who runs a number of construction and facility maintenance companies. They're NOS - New Old Stock" Yet ask the Generation X clubgoers (those born between the mid-1960s and early '80s), and many will say it seems so long agonightclubs were big and big business on Long Island. I need a place that I can feel comfortable in, she said as she danced in place by herself. He also managed and promotedseveral other late-night party spots during the '90s and early 2000s. Long Island is ripe for it, he said. document.writeln(""); When I moved to NYC in 1975; it felt just right. Learn More Starting at $ 600 per event Big crowds? A great light show, like this one at GLOin Westbury on Nov.7, 2008, was almost as important as the music. Tools, Flamed Mail Boxes, Automotive Performance, Neon People dance, drink and party on the deck at CoCo's in Huntington on July 14, 2000. Let's talk about Mirage, says Richard Bedrosian, aveteran of the hospitality scene, of the club that once stood where the Buffalo Wild Wings is now along Merrick Avenue in Westbury. Long Island nightclubs of the past: Scenes from the 1980s-2000s By Newsday Staff March 25, 2019 Many members of Generation X (Baby Boomers, too) will remember the scene well: Flashy, even. When we played that video, everyone was mesmerized. The couple are engaged in the intricate steps of the hustle, dancing in a disco that is as finely groomed and manicured as they are. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. ), at Celebrate St. James Community Cultural Arts Center A man and woman take center stage on the dance floor at the disco club 2001 Odyssey in Brooklyn, New York, in 1979. of American Speed I was probably there a couple, three times a week in the late 70s, Colletta said by telephone. There is astounding variety, too. 25. ), at Celebrate St. James Gallery The plaques were usually made of aluminum, but sometime bronze was used. A smaller room was geared toward dance, hip-hop and disco, while alarger room focused on New Wave and went live on the radio on Saturday nights,on the now-defunct 92.7 WLIR, also known as WDRE for a time. It wasnt until maybe six months later that someone tried to copy it.. And I got them after he found out he was sick." The driving beat echoed through discotheques across the island, as well as every local pop radio station, as the nation caught it's latest case of dance fever. I begged for one for Christmas one year. Inspired by mid-century Hungarian-French photographer Brassa's street photography of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century, Abramson (1948-2011) began photographing nightclubs on Chicago's South Side - clubs like: Peppers . As for those monstrous venues like GLO and Malibu,Rivas recalls that sometimebetween 2005-2010, they were suddenlyempty on a Saturday night. The Jacksons perform during a concert, circa 1975. The New York Times. Right: People dances on couches at Xenon, 1978. (7:30p.m. But if the lines were so long, right to the end, how does a place like Neptunes fold? Warehouse-size with two sides: the hip-hop side and the alternate side.. A young man in an open nylon shirt approached a woman in her late 20's at the bar and asked her to dance. 1. Celebrity DJs were often brought in to spin there Danny Krivit, Roger Sanchez, Boris, Theo, The Chainsmokers, Chus & Ceballos,Paul Oakenfold, Oscar G, Danny Tenaglia, and Nervo, to name a few and though it was mainly just a deck over the sand with a small indoor shack, on busy weekend afternoons people would be dancing on every possible space and platform all at once. There are pics of it being constructed on the net. Hislast nightclub was the now-defunct Sugar Dining Den in Carle Place, which closed its kitchen and became rebranded as Love in 2013, shortly before Rosenberg left that venture. - 3p.m. The club held dance contests and lingerie shows, sponsored ladies' nights and teen nights and had a plush lounge and enormous video screens before MTV exploded . Gran Sport, Malibu SS, Cutlass 442, Impala SS, Monte Carlo SS454, Daytona, & Custom, Custom Rodder, Hot Rod, and other custom car & hot rod If one was dead, wed go to the other. channeled, can-am, Route 66. Left: A couple dance at Studio 54 in 1977. Pyramid Club - New York, NY. I told him about the goodies I had picked up Right: Metallic-painted dancers at a disco club perform on stage in New York City, 1978. See my links below for other It was a lot smaller than I expected though. - he obviously knew what they were. were. how he got them and if he had any more "Jeep" ones at home or back at the Tools, Flamed Mail Boxes, Automotive Performance, Neon 2. var p = m.length-8; While opening crates and boxes I came across the The whole club was small. Marcia Kinley King of Greece commented that she saw bands like Spice and others play in 2001s small room and added, Most people seemed to prefer the disco room. Michelle Nati from Rochester wrote that she went to teen dances on Sundays around 1979. - 01:00 PM. Another feature that many discos on the Island have in common is that they are in shopping malls. The disco era was an poque unto itself, Meisler explains. Small donations are always appreciated to help keep our informational archive afloat. You wanted to see and be seen, is how he remembers the vibe to have been. We got actual flierson our cars (often left on windshields) and heard it on the radio. Take a look through these photos from Newsday's archives of some of the most popular night time haunts of the '80s, '90s and 2000s. He asked if they had anymore non-jeep I have a wonderful photo of him dressed as Elvis during the Halloween party. About an hour later I got a page (remember pagers?) http://javascript.internet.com --> While that could get competitive, Rivas describes it as"a happy time, and the music brought everyone together.. Ask Sources report that clubs were formed using these generic plaques I bought the jeep one, and continued around the swap meet.
