This probably only applies to the other dinosaurs out there. LOL.

Where did you go clubbing in the 80s? Was it a club or just a bar? Hard Rock or dance music?

We used to go to a couple of after-hours dance clubs most weekends. Hit the pub first (couldn't serve booze legally after 1:00 am in those days) and then off dancing till daylight came up. The first club I recall frequenting was Voodoo. Just off Yonge Street south of Bloor. Old funny looking warehouse building. Typically you'd hear Gang of Four, Bauhaus, Bronsky Beat, PIL, Endgames and the like. Ultra cool crowd but not in an unfriendly way. There was a funny guy named Doc that worked the bar (supposedly just water and pop). He wore lederhosen and a long ponytail. If you asked him nicely he would make you a Rye & Coke or some other such drink while whispering "you gotta keep it ultra-cool man, ultra-cool".

Voodoo closed down in maybe 85 or 86 I think. They opened a new club in its place called Backstreet. Never was as good as Voodoo.

Twilight Zone was another fairly good after-hours club. Playlist was more goth influenced really. The Cult, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop, Killing Joke and AC/DC. LOL. That was a lot of fun and seemed to attract a slightly younger crowd. Lasted for quite a while.

Well for me, and i turned 19 (drinking age in 1983) we usually started at a the smaller pubs until around midnight- 1 am and then hit the night clubs liek the Misty Moon, the Palace or Lucifers. these were big night clubs where beer was alot more expensive and they oftern had bands that had seen there better days like BTO and Nazereth or bands that were pretty big but not bif enough to play a stadium and they stayed open until 4 unlike the pubs that closed at 1

My short time in Toronto was mainly spent in small pubs, I liked the Brunswick House and I hit the Gasworks a few times. :)

All my drinking in the 80s was underaged so we were usually in the middle of the woods somewhere around a fire. :)

Most of my drinking in the 80's was underaged. I was legal in Oct. 1988 and I started going out with friends to nightclubs like "Abracadabra", "Rio's", "Piranha Room", "Bobaruba's", and
"Rockefeller's". Mostly dance clubs.

I was a good girl.. :p hard to believe i know.
But I didn't drink at all in the 80's.

My roommate (best friend) and I would travel to the college towns to party. We lived in OKC, but traveled to Norman (OU) or Stillwater (OSU). We had Waaayyy more fun in Stillwater. We partied at the world famous Eskimo Joes and at a club called The Turning Point (very techno). Lots of fun. I remember actually walking past a Country Bar called Tumbleweeds and the marquee was advertising Garth Brooks I never stopped in. *jen is kicking herself now* I paid $40 for a scalped ticket in '92.

When we were in OKC, we partied at a place called Nate's. It was a former Restaurant (high class), but the club was for 18-20 year olds. No alcohol sold in the building, but you could bring it in. They all just turned their heads. LOL

Another place was VZD's. It was a former drug store and still had the black and white motif. Very cool place that hosted lots of local bands (mostly new wave and punk). I met the former drummer for the Flaming Lips there, and I also saw Bo Diddly perform there.

I didn't hit drinking age until the 90s either. I did go to dance clubs for 18 and under in the 80s though. One called Knock Three Times was the most fun! Then there was also The Lighthouse, Satins and a few others. Thinking back we were lucky to have so many 18 and under night clubs around here in the 80s. I can't think of any now.

Info in advance: in Germany, drinking beer and wine is legal with 16, harder stuff (above 11% alc) with 18.

The first real club I´ve visited was the ICC, with 14. Luckily, they rarely asked for an ID, be it at the entrance or the bar. ;)
They have played all the cool stuff, New Wave, Synth and Gothic - suited me very well. Okay, all drinks were stretched with tap water, but who had cared? :D
The club closed in the late 80s after a series of drug raids and serious fights.

The Palace...more for the Yuppies and preppies, had sometimes a hard time getting in due to my 'Mad Max'-outfit. Inside, there was 80s pop like Simply Red, Sting, Sade (I hope you get the idea), beautiful women (who didn´t looked at me with their asses *LOL*) and overpriced drinks. Last orders were taken in the early 90s.

Sox...New Wave to the max. Totally rad, from the music to the interior. You could take a drink at the bar from pipelines, i.e. you paid, got a mouthpiece and sucked your drink out of the tube until you had the measured amount. Also a victim of the 90s.

Zorba the Buddha: disco run by the Bhagvani...no, they didn´t try to convert you, but they wouldn´t have objected if you were interested. :D
Music similar to the Palace, strict ID rules, but very mixed audience, from punks to preppies. Got in though being underage (18 was the line)...it´s always good to know the doormen. At midnight, they gathered for their mantras until their leader decided to run away with all the money, then they had replaced the mantras with playing a waltz. Still existing.

Mr. Drinks Beerhouse - for hardcore clubbers. Mainly frequented by the soldiers of Her Majestys Army, frequent raids of the MP was also part of it. Cheap beer, music okay, lots of fights. Definetly not my favourite...the Military Police made no difference between English soldiers and German clubbers when they raided this place. Closed.

Rainbow...sorry, no Metal/Hardrock disco. Largest dancehall with a capacity of about 1,500 people, Pop and Italo Disco en masse. Very cool Laser show at midnight. Neat but crammed with people. Best 'show' event...once, a rejected 'lover' drove a stolen car into the entrance area, no one was hurt except for the driver which was treated by the doormen after this stunt show. Also alive, today more on pop and R´n´B.

M1 - village disco for village people. Fun to watch the 'clodhoppers' (but never spoke that out loud!), music was typical 80s.

Originally posted by wavemeister:
...beautiful women (who didn´t looked at me with their asses *LOL*)


I love that expression Mr. Meister. I will try and use that soon. :D

Where did we party?
THE ZOO!...Just a nickname for a place.
JERRY'S.....OMG, 25cent drafts, and the best strawberry daquiri's on the face of the earth.


If you weren't in the mood to go anywhere else, drive out to the country with your guy, a bottle of Strawberry Hill, some good music, a blanket, and sit underneath the summer sky with the moon shining bright. (sometimes it was the moon in the sky too! :eek: heeheehehe :D Just kidding around. Don't want to get kicked off of here, I'm just getting started.

I didn't drink until I turned 21 in 1989. (Look at me....I STILL get carded!!! I'd never gotten away with it!!)

Cindi and I would buy the Sun Country Wine Coolers in the 2 liter bottles, (4 at a time), and go to her house, (since she's a year younger than me), and drink until her fiance came home. One night, we got totally wasted, I had 2 of the two liters, plus we had done about a dozen shots, laying on her kitchen floor, staring at the ceiling fan, singing "Bad Medicine". Troy, (her fiance/husband) and friend Doug came home. Doug, I was dating on the sly at the time. He got pissed at Cindi, took me to his house and put me on his WATERBED!!! I was puking ALL NIGHT!!

Okay, I think I got off on a tangent. I'm confused now, so I'll end it here.

:rolleyes:

I didn't try to get into a bar until I was about 18. My first was the Swing Club, I used my mom's driver license. :rolleyes: And I got in!! LOL

We tried other bars but could never get in. FINALLY, I turned 21!! We went to, 'Eagle Inn', 'Down Under', and 'Metro' most of the time. The second was the best! They played hard rock and had a volleyball net up with sand!! They were shut down for sanation reasons! :eek: God, I would love to find a bar that plays hard rock around here. :p The only problem is I doubt I would go...I guess I grew out of all that. ;)

I turned 18 in October of 1989, so I didn't really go to my first dance club till then. I was living up in Arlington, TX at the time and we went into Dallas for my birthday that night. I remember going to some club in the West End but I don't remember the name of it.

I had been to clubs before that played just live music. (I used to go see Charlie Sexton a lot and his brother Will's band The Kill).

I started drinking beer and other stuff at 16 (1988) because all my friends were older than me. We would go to someone's house usually or go to a park or something.

But once I turned 19 I was hanging out with Firemen all the time in bars, not clubs. Since I was with them, I had no problem getting in without ID.

Later on in the 90's, there was a place in Levittown (my hometown) that played all the older stuff called Poly-Ester's. There's still one in NYC called Culture Club... They had an old VW beetle in the club and those dance floors they had in Saturday Night Fever and stuff. People didn't necessarily dress the part, but it was fun to hear all 70's and 80's music. It's since been replaced by a club called Luxe which plays all new wave stuff. I miss the old Poly's.

Polly Esther's (http://www.pollyesthers.com/)

When I was a kid, I always heard the best club in the area was a club called Wings in the West Covina/Los Angeles area.

There were a lot of underage clubs here in the Seattle area in the 80's. The very first time I went to a club, I went to a 14 and up club when I was 13. That was just the beginning of my deceptions. (I could also still get into movies for childrens prices at the time too. Go figure) The club was called "Reflections" It was in a little strip mall in the town where I lived. It was in '83 and break dancing was HUGE at the time. That was a fun little club.
When I was 15, I started going to a 16 and up club in downtown Seattle called "Skoochies". It was very new wave. Then a club called "Encore" opened about 20 miles south of Seattle. That was our club of choice for most of high school. There was a parking lot that was hidden enough close to the club where we could drink our coolers in the car before going in.
There were also several local radio stations that sponsored dances in venues around the Space Needle. That stopped pretty abruptly in the spring of '86 when a riot broke out at one of those dances because they only opened one door. We got there after all was said and done. I'm so glad I didn't get caught up in it! We ended up just going across the street to Skoochies that night.

In the 80's I was still underage. So a bunch of us would drink in the cemetary, (I grew up there, my dad was & still is the creamator) We never disrespected any graves or any thing like that.In a sick kinda way, it was cool. There is a big open field, which we call Mother Hill, a bunch of us would hang there, nobody bothered us and we didn't bother any bodies:*coughes*.

The only club I could get into at that time was Studio 1 (rock club)
in newark. Saw some good shows there! Just couldn't drink:(

I still get carded even today so there wasn't much hope of me sneaking into a night club or any place that was strictly (or not so strictly) over 18. We used to hang out at the ice rink, which was way cool, they used to have what was referred to as 'ice discos' - this was in Germany - and we would skate around the rink, wearing our best 80s clothes at the age of 12 and watch the lights and try to skate in time with the music. Then there was ballroom dancing (how terribly posh is that???) but all my friends did it so I decidec to give it a try as well and the dance school I was with, always had a 'disco' (read popular chart music) every Saturday and besides, it's not half as posh as it sounds.

The minute I turned 18, that was it. I loved flashing my ID card at all the bouncers. My brother worked as a bouncer for a while so that was pretty cool.

I was hitting the clubs at age 15. We had two places we would go : 25th Street(Waco, TX) or Curfew(Austin, TX). All I can say is both places bring back lot of crazy memories.

There were three Clubs in Seattle that I went to in my teen years. The first was Scootchies. Scootchies was great, they played new wave and it was an old rollarskating rink so the club was huge. They served terrible tasting sandwiches after-hours, which I always consumed. My typical scootchies uniform might include black Levies, a white Oxford shirt buttoned to the top (that was very important), sometimes a cardigan sweater, and usually some kind of broache or bola tie (this was replaced by '86 by the wearing of crosses and crusifixes). After Scootchies closed in '85 (or early '86?), I went to City Beat. City Beat was much darker and gayer, frankly. Clientel at City Beat (me included) all seemed to look like Pete Burns of Dead or Alive. City Beat was very cliquey and there was lots of attitude and a high-school like pecking order, however, I just went to dance. Drug use was very prevelant at City Beat and MDA and acid were the drugs of choice. City Beat was closed down after just one year and the new hot club was Club Broadway on Capital Hill. It was cool because at the time I was a student at the University of Washington and Club Broadway was desperately trying to attract a more upscale (drug-free) clientel so they would print free passes in the UW daily paper in a mostly futile attempt to attract college students (the problem was that most residential students preferred college sponsored dances). Consequently, I virtually never had to pay a cover charge (just show my student ID and the pass). To this day I still have stacks of those passes I had cut out of the paper. Club Broadway was great and was similar in many repects to Scootchies, though the music was less new-wave and more "Euro-Disco". Alas, Club Broadway was eventually closed down by the city of Seattle. By this time, however, I was 21 and so I began going to overage dance clubs and raves. But these clubs were very influential during my impressionable teen years. If anybody has similar experieces with these Seattle clubs, I'd love to hear from you. My address is MOSFET_8@hotmail.com.

I didn't start hitting the teen clubs in the Phoenix area until '88. Sgt. Pepper's Video Dance Club was da bomb. DJ booth was the front end of an old pink caddy; the decks & mixer were placed in the dashboard. Fog permeated from the machines behind the grill. Checkerboard tile dancefloor, mirrors to make the place look bigger, games, food, non-alcoholic drinks and a movie room, plus a large projection screen and a few TVs to display videos. The lights and sound were top-notch. Best time I had there was seeing Dave Rajput of HOT MIX Radio (my inspiration for DJing) spin there. :)

There were quite a few clubs in the Valley that would host a teen night during the summer: Max's 919, Zazoo's, Sinsations and the infamous Devil House aka Club Rio. My first club gig was at the short-lived Outland teen club in North Phoenix in 1990. Had a blast. :bouncy:

I turned 18 in 1981 and in Texas at the time, that was legal drinking. I started going out to the Original Roxy whiched played alot of new wave music. Then my favorite became a club called Faces (Lady's drink Free). We would always try and get a girl to pour her drink into our cups because they had special cups for the lady's. Good luck as the lines were long to get a refill, but the challenge was fun. Then I moved up to a more upscale club, The Ocean Club, during the Mid-80's this was the place to be and be seen. From 87-89 I finished at Xcess and for my favorite late night club "Therapy". There were a few good clubs during the early 90's but nothing like the clubs of the 80's :mwaha:

Xcess, that brings back some memories. I spent a few nights back in the summer of 88 at the Ocean Club. Loved that they simulcast live weekend nights on 104 KRBE back then. I ocassionally hit 6400 as well before it burned down. But I spent most of my time on the NW side at a club called Atlantis.

Xcess, that brings back some memories. I spent a few nights back in the summer of 88 at the Ocean Club. Loved that they simulcast live weekend nights on 104 KRBE back then. I ocassionally hit 6400 as well before it burned down. But I spent most of my time on the NW side at a club called Atlantis.


I remember Atlantis. I lived in Bear Creek at the time and Atlantis was not far down Hwy 1960. Great club but had too many young people for me at the time. It was probably 1986 when I was going to Atlantis. Before I was (you know what) doing, I didn't know what every body was on and thought these kids are crazy for dancing nonstop all night. Did you ever go to club NRGs? That was another club for underage kids that was pretty wild. I remember parents dropping their kids off, and once, the parents were inside watching what was going on.

Xcess asked, "Did you ever go to club NRGs? That was another club for underage kids that was pretty wild."

No, I was never did go there. But your question did remind me of somethign else. Do you remember when Mix 96.5 used to be KNRJ or something like that - (KNRG were actually the call letters of a barge or something like that so they couldn't use those call letters)? They played mostll extended mixes of various dance and club songs? They were only on the air for a few months back in 88/89, but I absolutely loved them at the time.

Yea, Knrj was only on for 5 or 6 months. Late 89 to early 90. I have a couple of tapes from Decadance where they broadcast live. The radio station was sold in late 89 and the programmer could play whatever he wanted until the new people took over. Some guys from out of state came in and decided on the Mix format saying we had too many dance stations already. Now we have no dance stations (I don't consider rap dance) and I no longer listen to radio except sports.

Well my primary Club was the one i DJ'ed at "The Ritz" but that was on Thurs, Fri and Sat. Then on Tues and Wed i Subbed quite a bit at "Palladium"
as for drinking? well lets say even though i was under age i had NO problem gettin Booze every night.

Club Rio in Atlanta
(where Rob Lowe got scr**d)

'Weekends', back parking lot (they were much stricter with ID.
all the goths, new wave people etc. would drink and hang out. I had lots of good times there.

the 40 Watt, Athens.
they played the best 80's music ;)

I was still underage in the 80's, and being from a fairly rural area, there wasn't many underage clubs, I remember one, in Moundsville, WV called "The Seventh Wave", I think it last maybe a year.

Mostly my friends and I would go to teen dances whenever the local radio station (WOMP-fm 100.5) would host them, usually at Wheeling Park White Palace, although they also held them in the bottom bar at the bowling alley in Bellaire and we went to a couple of the dances at the Wheeling Civic Center. A local church would also have teen dances in Bellaire, but it was usually for the younger crowds - the ones that weren't quite in high school yet. All the above played Top 40 pop music.

I only remember going to a couple bars a couple times when I was underage, one was The Blue Angel in Bellaire, Ohio, and the other was located at the shopping mall in St. Clairsville, but I can't remember what it was called now.

In Chicago about 84-86 I used to sneak out a lot and go to a club called Medusas, which had awesome music. It was a juice bar but you still needed an ID to get in, so since I was about 15 I used my sisters, LOL! Awesome times, those were.

Wow, another old thread I never posted in! Time to fix that! :lol:

My first year of college (1987-88) we went to a dive called The Junction, which was a converted warehouse at a raidroad junction. Having a "function at the Jucntion" was the popular saying. Checking ID was not their strong suit, which is probably why we went every week, and probably why it closed the next year.

So, forced out of our party place, we had to drive into Memphis to Silky Sullivan's (owned by the same guy who owns Silky O'Sullivan's now)

We went to a club called Trax in KC in the early to mid 80's. They had an upstairs which was the dancefloor and played mainly new wave and HI-NRG stuff. Downstairs was a bunch of video screens and they played videos of mostly UK stuff and various assorted dance videos. There was a huge bar against the back wall and a tiny V.J. booth crammed in the corner. Mainly what I remember the most was the bathrooms always had a line because it was so crowded. Wednesdays they had Dynasty nights and everyone would get sloshed and watch Dynasty. I think a lot of bars had those theme nights goin on back then. I remember they tried to do the same with the Colbys but it didn't draw any crowds. It burnt down in the wee hours of the morning in '86 or '87, I can't remember the exact year. Now a club called The Levee is located there. Trax was a fun bar. Always have good memories of that place.

I turned 18 in 1981 and in Texas at the time, that was legal drinking. I started going out to the Original Roxy whiched played alot of new wave music. Then my favorite became a club called Faces (Lady's drink Free). We would always try and get a girl to pour her drink into our cups because they had special cups for the lady's. Good luck as the lines were long to get a refill, but the challenge was fun. Then I moved up to a more upscale club, The Ocean Club, during the Mid-80's this was the place to be and be seen. From 87-89 I finished at Xcess and for my favorite late night club "Therapy". There were a few good clubs during the early 90's but nothing like the clubs of the 80's :mwaha:

Hey Xcess,
A couple of questions for you. I've heard there was another Roxy here in Houston (late 70s, early 80s). Where exactly was this place?
And.... Why does the sign at Numbers say "#'s 2". Was there another location somewhere? Always wondered that.
You actually raised another question. How long was The Ocean Club around? I had only known about it in '88 because of the live broadcast on 104 (which I stayed up plenty of Saturday nights recording). I thought it was a new place then.

Hey Xcess,
A couple of questions for you. I've heard there was another Roxy here in Houston (late 70s, early 80s). Where exactly was this place?
And.... Why does the sign at Numbers say "#'s 2". Was there another location somewhere? Always wondered that.
You actually raised another question. How long was The Ocean Club around? I had only known about it in '88 because of the live broadcast on 104 (which I stayed up plenty of Saturday nights recording). I thought it was a new place then.

The original Roxy was on Westheimer right as you cross over the railroad tracks.
I graduated HS in 1982 and went there in 1982. It wasn't around much longer and all the stores in that shopping center were converted to upscale shops. It was a small club but had a huge equalizer on the wall that went with the beat of the music.

I think you are right, but I'm not for sure. There could have been 2 numbers at one time. I started cruising westheimer probably in 1981 and #'s was already there. I believe it started in 78 or 79 as a Disco but I always saw it as a place where all the weirdos went and I didn't first go until 87 or 88.

I'm not for sure when Ocean club was opened. I was married to my first wife in 1986 and I had to quit going to clubs. I didn't start going to the Ocean club until 1987 when I split from my x. So it probably opened in 1986 or 1987 and for a short while it was the number 1 hang out in Houston as they were the first to go from 5$ cover to 6$ cover on Saturday nights as the lines were so long to get in.

In the 80's you could either find me at Hammerjacks in Baltimore or any number of punk rock clubs in D.C. (9:30 club, DC Space, Hung Jury, The Roxy....can't remember the others!). I had a fake i.d. when I was 15 :tsk: Well, it wasn't fake, it was someone's drivers license that I found & she looked a bit like me, except she was Mexican and I'm Italian :D

Every once in awhile when there was a good show at CBGBs in NYC, we would all pile in the car & drive up there for the night :thumb: I NEVER got carded in New York :eek: And I used to think it was so cool you could brown bag it on the sidewalk right in front of a cop & he wouldn't say a word about it! :lol: ohhhh, memories.... :p

FYI Numbers opened in 1978 and not long after closed and became Babylon, which was short lived. The place re-opened and once again became Numbers, for the seoncd time. Hence...#'s 2

This probably only applies to the other dinosaurs out there. LOL.

Where did you go clubbing in the 80s? Was it a club or just a bar? Hard Rock or dance music?

We used to go to a couple of after-hours dance clubs most weekends. Hit the pub first (couldn't serve booze legally after 1:00 am in those days) and then off dancing till daylight came up. The first club I recall frequenting was Voodoo. Just off Yonge Street south of Bloor. Old funny looking warehouse building. Typically you'd hear Gang of Four, Bauhaus, Bronsky Beat, PIL, Endgames and the like. Ultra cool crowd but not in an unfriendly way. There was a funny guy named Doc that worked the bar (supposedly just water and pop). He wore lederhosen and a long ponytail. If you asked him nicely he would make you a Rye & Coke or some other such drink while whispering "you gotta keep it ultra-cool man, ultra-cool".

Voodoo closed down in maybe 85 or 86 I think. They opened a new club in its place called Backstreet. Never was as good as Voodoo.

Twilight Zone was another fairly good after-hours club. Playlist was more goth influenced really. The Cult, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop, Killing Joke and AC/DC. LOL. That was a lot of fun and seemed to attract a slightly younger crowd. Lasted for quite a while.

clubs and bars.
I turned 19 close to the end of 1989. I was living in London at the time. I went to Kiplings, Dr. Rockets, The Ramp (after-hours bar), GT's, The Rideout and a few other places that don't exist anymore. I can't remember the names.

I went to one bar in Toronto called Scoobies. It was the only bar in TO that I could get into when I was 18.

I went to Elusions in Oshawa (more under-age drinking) regularly. It was my favourite.

I never got into a bar in my hometown until I was 19. The most popular bar played live music and dj music in between sets. My favourite bar in my hometown (not as good as Elusions though!)was the closest thing to a nightclub in my area. It was over 90% American. I fit into that bar more than the other bars in my area because I liked to dress up (big hair, big earrings, miniskirt, nice top). The other bars were more casual. In fact, when I went to those bars people assumed I was American because of the way I dressed.

For me, living in Canada, drinking age is 19 (which happened to be 1989 for me) but you could sometimes get in earlier with your older sister's ID (before picture ID's were around) and we would go to a place called "The Cornerstone" which is now turned into a strip joint. You would have to line up for sometimes over an hour to get in unless you had a side door pass. Music that was played there at that time was stuff like "You think you're a man" by Divine and "Male Stripper" by Man to Man Meet Man Parrish just to name a few. Everyone would be dancing when those two songs came on for sure! haha

ahhh... the good old days.....

hey 80;s girl, I went to scootchies and club broadway, and the underground and the vogue and the rebar, I so miss it... husband and kids and all..

I went to all those clubs. Also went to the Underground in the U district. I miss those days no husband or kids or responsibilities...:thumb:

1982:Brand new Marine stationed at the Bangor submarine base near Seattle.I use to hang out at four under 21 clubs,the first was Tonights the night on Mercer Island,the second was 'The Spectrum' in Federal way,Scoothies,and The Broadway.I liked the Broadway because that was suppose to be the elegant club,I usually always wore a suit and tie when I went there.
Around 1984 I started to go to clubs in Vancouver B.C.My favorite was this Club in gastown called Panache,very elegant,then there was Confetti,and a few others in and around downtown me and my new Canadian girlfriend use to go to.
1985-86:Stationed in Hawaii,whole bunch,but I remember,Spats,The Shorebird,'Annabel's,Red lion,Louews street annex,and Masquerades.
Phillippines:No comment
Japan:Locals girls hated Americans,especially Marines,did a lot of reading.
1986-90:College in Texas(SW Texas),use to go to clubs in San Antonio and Austin.Broad street.Reflex,Bohnam exchange,confetti and Illusions were my favorite in San Antonio.Austin nights,City lights were my Austin clubs.
1990's,delayed adult hood in Dallas:YAWN,