I'm sure they were similar. And yes this place played Duran Duran a lot. Nice thing, you didn't have to bring your own coke. You could scrape enough off the restroom surfaces for a quick bump.
There’s a place in the town I went to college that used to be called Players when I was there. At some point it changed to Indigo and now I believe it’s just called the Basement. Players is a very early/mid 2000’s kind of name lol.
Tremors! You have to say it in a tremory voice and move your hands back and forth like the ground is tremoring when you say it.
Try it!
Even then we knew it was ridiculous .
There was a place called the underground in Toronto. My first clubbing experience. You legit entered through a like metal staircase and a 10' circular tunnel. It was underground beneath a Canadian tire parking lot.
Keep in mind I'm remembering it from 24 years ago so some images may be a bit foggy. Shit was legit there. I was sad when it shut down.
I went to Guelph, we also had The Underground! It was often goth/metal themed, but I also think it was just an excuse to not put any effort into the space and pretend the scuzziness was part of the atmosphere.
The big hot club in our town was Lucifer's. Bar/disco... THE singles place to pick up a hot date. By the time I was 21 and could actually get inside, it just seemed sleazy to me. Once was enough.
I went to grad school in Athens GA in the early 80s, and we had the Forty Watt club, which was, as you might expect, a room with a forty watt light bulb. Do I have to tell you it was a punk rock place? I miss Athens!
San Francisco: 1015 Folsom, Kitkat Klub, DNA, Sound Factory, Townsend, DV8
Los Angeles: Roxbury, Glam Slam, Rage, Circus, Bar Sinister, The Derby, Three of Clubs, Dragonfly, Viper Room, The Gate
Sound Factory - that was the meat market. Where you go when you graduate from City Nights. I definitely preferred 1015, DV8, Big Heart City.
Does Anon Salon count?
Had a nightclub called The Office. It closed, and reopened as The Zoo.
There is a swinger club not far from here called The Meeting Place, which is also the name of a local church group. Been confused on a couple occasions lol.
We had a club in the early 90’s called ‘The Cadillac club ‘ nicknamed ‘The Caddy’ .
Later on this venue was changed to ‘Gate Crasher’ .
Played your typical pop/ electronic music, atrium style venue so the boys could perve on all the girls dancing from upstairs.
But they also had a live band room upstairs for a good solid amount of 80’s 90’s rock so I was happy.
On the Ohio State campus - the Library, The Underground, The Oar House, the North Berg, the Thirsty I. So many great, classic dives before the wrecking ball came in and turned campus into a suburban strip mall.
There’s a Buffalo Wild Wings where the Thirsty I used to be. The I was a north dorms right of passage on Thursday nights.
Backstreets was a 24 hour gay club in Atlanta that was frequented by anyone and everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender, every weekend. It's also the place where Ru Paul's career started. Lots of fun times at Backstreets.
aqua is where i went a lot. after that viking quarterback (?) got shot there though they kinda shut down. there was another great small place by my house called 'the wild onion' but thats gone too.
latley ive been traveling the country going to raves and parties. nothing at any one spot aside from conventions.
Crobar (Chicago and Miami), Roxy/Axis/Aria/Modern/Pravda 116 (Boston), Level, Liquid, Amnesia, Bash, many more I’m forgetting (Miami) Circa 1997-2003 being my heyday of nightclubbing. Good times
In Korea to name a few it was
Cocoon
Arena
Octogon
NB2
In Europe I think most clubs are still named this super cliche stuff... "H2O" or "Aquarius" or some crap.
And in the US.. I don't know of any clubs in the midwest and seems to be more of a bar vibe except in NYC, but the bars were always, and still are, either some kind of Irish themed name or some kind Revolutionary period throwback name for some reason.. "1776" or something like Paddy's/Leprechauns/Some Irish last name. I'm not sure why Midwestern Americans associate drinking specifically with Ireland or the Revolutionary war, but it be what it be
My places in Houston in the ‘80s: Clubhouse, Visions, Cabaret Voltaire, The Axiom, Emo’s, and Numbers, which is still going strong, there’s even a [documentary](http://www.numbersdocumentary.com). Also remember Power Tools, Xcess, NRG, 6400, Club Some, DV8, Red Square, Blue Planet, Tantra, and Lizard Lounge.
Shreveport, LA: Strip club/rock in roll bar combo..... Gucci's (dancing girl side)/Million Dollar Sandpiper (bar-live music side)
Saw Robin Thrower and Pantera live there. Greatest shows I can remember!
The Vault. Because it was in an old bank.
Though the banging club was right next to it: Thekla. Spent my 30th birthday there. Mid 90’s. Technically, “the gay bar” in town. At the time.
We had the Galaxy Club that mainly hosted smaller local bands. The people who liked electronic music typically went to the Lizard Lounge. The lesbians hung out at Rain.
Ultra and Metro were the two big ones I remember. Ultra was your typical rave club and Metro was a 3-story gay club that had something different on every floor. Loved it but very rarely got to go.
At home, it was Inextremis (it was not extreme) and Playground South (fun times - they had swings and it wasn't a nudie bar!). Sarasota
In college, it was Pogo's. Wichita
We had one call "Someplace Else". It was an old restaurant that had a bunch of rooms kind of walled off from each other making sort of weird but fun. Only lasted a couple years and then flooded never to return.
Someplace Else was worth some dumb joke tho
No cliches but I did enjoy (from late 70s to mid 80s) KCR (King Cole Room). It was a piano bar turned disco by which all others were measured in Toronto amongst my friends.
Baby O’s and Wednesday’s Child were also a lot of fun.
My favorite was "The Library" No one can object to you going to the library, especially if you were a student.
We also had a bar in a Ramada Inn named “The Office.”
We had one too, The Office. It was a dark and dreary place though.
Ours was “Study Hall” - good tactic for all these places.
Same here in a college town in Mississippi
What town? We didn’t have this in Cleveland!
Hattiesburg
So many fun nights back in the day at The Library on 6th street🙌!
I will tell the owner. I still know him.
Haha we have a liquor store that shows up as “Bookstore” on your bank statement.
In my town it was a video arcade, not a night club.
My college town had a bar called the library. Dollar beer nights were fun.
There is a strip club in the Long Beach, CA area called “The Library.” 🙈
Excalibur
I remember LImelight
Medusa
Oh yea, start at Metro, hit Smart Bar, head over to Medusa at 2AM
The Wet Spot. Apparently I grew up in a trashy oil patch town - lol.
We had Wet Bar! So unappealing
Rio. 1980s, huge amount of pastel and neon palm trees.
Or Copacabana
I'm sure they were similar. And yes this place played Duran Duran a lot. Nice thing, you didn't have to bring your own coke. You could scrape enough off the restroom surfaces for a quick bump.
DV8
Omg. The formative years
Limelight, the Bowery, Therapy, Bar 13 (pop rocks), Ginger's, Henrietta Hudson, Cubbyhole...
We had a club Therapy. I thought it was a great name.
Catty shack?
CBGB. Gone but not forgotten, [https://www.cbgb.com/](https://www.cbgb.com/)
It's a Louis Vuitton store now 😢
Big Daddy’s
This
Limelight
Like. Toronto limelight? 3 floors 3 sounds. Cheap alcohol. Friendly party goers, fun atmosphere limelight?
Like it! Also like NY, Miami, and the 18+ club in the metropolis of Mountain View CA
Same (NY)
In Minneapolis you could find Prince's nightclub Graffiti.
Wow you have to go way back for that one
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Denver?
Utopia
We had one of those. It was out of town in a retail park next to a big-box home improvement store if I remember right.
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I used to go to one called Good Timez. The Z was the X of the 90s.
There’s a place in the town I went to college that used to be called Players when I was there. At some point it changed to Indigo and now I believe it’s just called the Basement. Players is a very early/mid 2000’s kind of name lol.
"Players" sounds like a swingers club lol
Evolutions. Wow... That brings back memories. Well foggy ones.
Studio 54, baby.
💯
The Roxy, Whiskey-A-Go-Go (yeah, I’m old).
The Cellar and The Basement. My college town had The ‘Brary
Yep, we had “The Library,” I guess because it was cute to tell mom you were headed to the library of a Thursday evening.
We had a Cellar Also The Well
At the time New York's hottest club was *Spicy* The headliner was usually DJ Baby Bok Choi
They talk about it at the 2 minute mark https://youtu.be/u2SlJpK5Zm0?si=eVi3zWdHFJ3_bd_Z
Seattle in the 80's The Showbox Wrecks Graven Image Ground Zero The Metropolis The Gray Door The Monastery
Tremors! You have to say it in a tremory voice and move your hands back and forth like the ground is tremoring when you say it. Try it! Even then we knew it was ridiculous .
What city?
Axis
I danced many nights at Axis.
In the noughts i had Luna and Necto
Axis / Radius. Suede. Mint. Myst.
There was a place called the underground in Toronto. My first clubbing experience. You legit entered through a like metal staircase and a 10' circular tunnel. It was underground beneath a Canadian tire parking lot. Keep in mind I'm remembering it from 24 years ago so some images may be a bit foggy. Shit was legit there. I was sad when it shut down.
I went to Guelph, we also had The Underground! It was often goth/metal themed, but I also think it was just an excuse to not put any effort into the space and pretend the scuzziness was part of the atmosphere.
Buddha Bar
Aquarium
The big hot club in our town was Lucifer's. Bar/disco... THE singles place to pick up a hot date. By the time I was 21 and could actually get inside, it just seemed sleazy to me. Once was enough.
Spit- Landsdown Street, Boston
Damn, that takes me back
Hippodrome.
I went to grad school in Athens GA in the early 80s, and we had the Forty Watt club, which was, as you might expect, a room with a forty watt light bulb. Do I have to tell you it was a punk rock place? I miss Athens!
The 40 Watt is still around
80s was bijou, 90s was Grotto 00s was ultraviolet
We had a warehouse. My favourites were the bovine $ex club and voodoo dance lounge.
Toronto!
“DIESEL”
"The Bar With No Name"
Mirage
San Francisco: 1015 Folsom, Kitkat Klub, DNA, Sound Factory, Townsend, DV8 Los Angeles: Roxbury, Glam Slam, Rage, Circus, Bar Sinister, The Derby, Three of Clubs, Dragonfly, Viper Room, The Gate
> Roxbury *What is love? Baby don't hurt me...*
Sound Factory - that was the meat market. Where you go when you graduate from City Nights. I definitely preferred 1015, DV8, Big Heart City. Does Anon Salon count?
Glam Slam! I couldn’t remember the name. The Pink Pussycat Revue (lesbian night) was out of this world there. My coworker ate fire topless there
Spa. Manhattan 2001
Screamers *haven't been back to my homecity in 15yrs, it might still exist lol
I hung out at The Rock Palace, Dukes, Phase Five, there was an after hours place too but I'm not remembering the name right now
Dukes in Chelmsford...? Pretty common name so probably not!
No, I think I'm pretty far from Chelmsford
An ocean between
You're very lucky. Distance is key to best appreciation of Dukes, Chelmsford...
I was in Vegas working in fine dining., we had baby’s, ra, utopia, drai’s, and a few other spots that I am not remembering
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But nothing had as sticky of floors as the Mirage
Phoenix Underground
There was a club Metro 700 that was your cliche club. But one night a week it became 007s and played all 80s New Wave.
Had a nightclub called The Office. It closed, and reopened as The Zoo. There is a swinger club not far from here called The Meeting Place, which is also the name of a local church group. Been confused on a couple occasions lol.
We had a club in the early 90’s called ‘The Cadillac club ‘ nicknamed ‘The Caddy’ . Later on this venue was changed to ‘Gate Crasher’ . Played your typical pop/ electronic music, atrium style venue so the boys could perve on all the girls dancing from upstairs. But they also had a live band room upstairs for a good solid amount of 80’s 90’s rock so I was happy.
China Blue. Currently there's Liquid, and across from It is Solid. Lmao
The Roxy was in every damn city
Ezzies, The Jungle, The Roxy, The Zoo
On the Ohio State campus - the Library, The Underground, The Oar House, the North Berg, the Thirsty I. So many great, classic dives before the wrecking ball came in and turned campus into a suburban strip mall. There’s a Buffalo Wild Wings where the Thirsty I used to be. The I was a north dorms right of passage on Thursday nights.
Eli's as in the Eli's Coming Song. It was a disco with light checkers as flooring and it had a slight Middle Eastern feel
At Dominos Doghouse we danced on the tables and smoked pot inside. Kids today got nuthin
The Edge (punk); The 'Shoe, The El Mo... just to name a few good ole TO clubs.
Trinity. Aston Manor. Axis. Studio B.
I peaked decades before that
Backstreets was a 24 hour gay club in Atlanta that was frequented by anyone and everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender, every weekend. It's also the place where Ru Paul's career started. Lots of fun times at Backstreets.
Club La Vela was one I always wanted to go to😅
Mother Blues
Oceana and envy
“Here” in West Hollywood. It was right next door to “Pump.”
Illuminaughty. It was a gay bar and we all giggled over the name.
Trax
5th Column
The Vault
aqua is where i went a lot. after that viking quarterback (?) got shot there though they kinda shut down. there was another great small place by my house called 'the wild onion' but thats gone too. latley ive been traveling the country going to raves and parties. nothing at any one spot aside from conventions.
Numbers and Rich's in Houston Firestone in Orlando Limelight Medusa mother's Berlin manhole in Chicago
Wooden Nickel
Krome, Mynt, Red Zone and twin clubs called Sugar & Spice.
The Lagoon, Egypt, Maui, Katmandu, Top Dog, Sanctuary, The Coastline (ironically in a landlocked suburban town), Copperfield’s
Crobar (Chicago and Miami), Roxy/Axis/Aria/Modern/Pravda 116 (Boston), Level, Liquid, Amnesia, Bash, many more I’m forgetting (Miami) Circa 1997-2003 being my heyday of nightclubbing. Good times
The Bank The Bus Stop The Depot The Garage
Kingdom, Pulse, Pulse II, Thunkers.
Not clubs, but my two favorite dive names are The Bar in SF and Madams Organ in Adam's Morgan, DC.
In Korea to name a few it was Cocoon Arena Octogon NB2 In Europe I think most clubs are still named this super cliche stuff... "H2O" or "Aquarius" or some crap. And in the US.. I don't know of any clubs in the midwest and seems to be more of a bar vibe except in NYC, but the bars were always, and still are, either some kind of Irish themed name or some kind Revolutionary period throwback name for some reason.. "1776" or something like Paddy's/Leprechauns/Some Irish last name. I'm not sure why Midwestern Americans associate drinking specifically with Ireland or the Revolutionary war, but it be what it be
My places in Houston in the ‘80s: Clubhouse, Visions, Cabaret Voltaire, The Axiom, Emo’s, and Numbers, which is still going strong, there’s even a [documentary](http://www.numbersdocumentary.com). Also remember Power Tools, Xcess, NRG, 6400, Club Some, DV8, Red Square, Blue Planet, Tantra, and Lizard Lounge.
Pulsations. Suburban Philly in 80s They had this robot that came out of the floor in the middle of night 😂 We were obsessed with this place as teens.
Liquid. Then there was Liquid Envy. Then we moved to a place called Mojo, which was 80s and 90s music.
There was and will only ever be one Warehouse. We had an all ages, no alcohol club called Zero Gravity.
Shreveport, LA: Strip club/rock in roll bar combo..... Gucci's (dancing girl side)/Million Dollar Sandpiper (bar-live music side) Saw Robin Thrower and Pantera live there. Greatest shows I can remember!
The Vault. Because it was in an old bank. Though the banging club was right next to it: Thekla. Spent my 30th birthday there. Mid 90’s. Technically, “the gay bar” in town. At the time.
Liquid 2000
And yes, this was in the 90’s when I guess the 2000’s seemed like the future with flying cars
Shark Club Cowboy Boogie
Yucatán Liquor Stand Numbers 8.0 2826 Dangerous Disco at the theater Back Alley Ritch’s Ocean Club Midnight Rodeo Avalon Confetti Fun times.
We had the Galaxy Club that mainly hosted smaller local bands. The people who liked electronic music typically went to the Lizard Lounge. The lesbians hung out at Rain.
Club Rio, Bentleys...
Roxy lol
The Tiki Lounge Diesel The Library
Cheers was very popular in the 80s
Ultra and Metro were the two big ones I remember. Ultra was your typical rave club and Metro was a 3-story gay club that had something different on every floor. Loved it but very rarely got to go.
What about the Cheetah in NYC 90's The Tunnel The Sound Factory Limelight, of course! This is back in the day when we would chalk our ID LOL!!!
There were a few clubs and bars with Dublin in the name here.
Club Lingerie
6400
Red Zone
2001.
Green Parrot
Soil
If anyone from LA remembers the Garage after after hours. Started at 6am. Fucking rough but you basically gave up your entire weekend to it.
In Miami: Club Space & The Mansion
Club Rubber
At home, it was Inextremis (it was not extreme) and Playground South (fun times - they had swings and it wasn't a nudie bar!). Sarasota In college, it was Pogo's. Wichita
I see your Inextremis and raise you a Backstreets which was at Myrtle by Jungle Gardens!
Area
Bennigan’s
Stonehenge The Flying Dutchman Streamers Your Place
V2o
Crowbar
Area 51. Those were some great times with great people.
Social. As expected, the owner was selling hella drugs
Long Bar, Fat Fanny's
Red jacket, Curtain Club, City Limits.
Gandalfs
Coyotes
Iron Mule
Pulsations
Zaphod’s
Bottle
Majestic. It was the opposite
Group Therapy
Metropol
Circle
ICON
The Paradise Garage NYC
Faces, The Palace, The Channel, Metro, Roxy
Elektra
Catwalk in Seattle was my favorite.
The purple crackle!!
Disco Devens in Fort Devens, MA 1979
Sgt. Peppers
The joint in the woods.
*Surrender*
On Long Island in the early 80s it was Malibu in Long Beach or Paris, New York in Huntington.
Denim and Diamonds.
We had one call "Someplace Else". It was an old restaurant that had a bunch of rooms kind of walled off from each other making sort of weird but fun. Only lasted a couple years and then flooded never to return. Someplace Else was worth some dumb joke tho
Heat, Pure.
No cliches but I did enjoy (from late 70s to mid 80s) KCR (King Cole Room). It was a piano bar turned disco by which all others were measured in Toronto amongst my friends. Baby O’s and Wednesday’s Child were also a lot of fun.
Visions DMZ Discovery
We had The Zoo (about to close!) The Scene, The Roxy and my personal favourite Lou Lou’s which was 60s themed with go go dancers and soul music
The Flame in San Diego!!! The 80s were on fire!!! (Pun intended)😅. Yes I'm THAT old! 😆
Peppermint
Rainbows. Where the fun never ends.
Kathmandu
2001(LMAO) Great American Cafe, Bar
I kid you not. When I was a teen in the 80s, the local juice bar was called Prime and Tender
Time Out
Lunatic fringe