Favorite Dance Club/Bar in the 80's.

[edcrunk]

Star 7 Discotek (that's how it was spelled) in MWC owned by Ed Smith (aka: Ed Crunk) mid 90's

EBM at I-40 and Scott St. also owned by Ed .

Wow, you definitely know your stuff! However, my club was spelled Star Seven Diskotek... which Shiny Toy Guns gives a nod to in their song Le Disko. I'm also about to kick off "DISKOTEK Saturdays" at XIII X Lounge (kamp's), which is where we do our much loved "ROBOTIC Wednesdays".
Thanx for remembering!

[Joe Kimball]

This might be the place for this question: I assume that the building in the late 1980s ( along the 6800 block of W. Wilshire or thereabouts) marked ominously in spray-type letters "AXIS" was a club of some kind; what exactly was it? To my recollection, the building is still there.

[bluedogok]

After Daddy's Money was out there in the late 70's to early 80's. Last that I knew it was a church but I have heard it was for sale.

[RadicalModerate]

Back at some point in a summer in the late 70's or early 80's we had just returned to OKC from a trip to Galveston. The evening (a week or so previously) that we rolled into Galveston, we went walking down by the seawall to look for a place to eat. There was an old, historic, Chinese pagoda-looking, sort of octagonal, restaurant out at the end of an enclosed pier.

The sign out front said, "Casual Dress Welcome." We were--for sure--dressed "casually" and took them at their word. We walked out to the end of the pier. Through the glass doors to the restaurant we could see waitstaff dressed in what looked like formal wear and figured that there was no way that they were going to let us in. We were wrong. They not only seated us immediately, but put us at a table overlooking the surf that I would have personally picked had I been given a choice.

We enjoyed a wonderful meal (I still remember that I ordered "Red Snapper Ponchitrain") along with a couple of tasty "hurricane" cocktails.

At any rate . . . Upon our return to OKC, for some reason, someone wanted to go to some dance club in some shopping center somewhere around here. I seem to remember that you had to access it by going down a friggin' slide of some sort into the bowels of the building. Guess what: I couldn't get in because I was wearing JEANS. Not old tattered or cutoff jeans--like, say, in Galveston--but jeans that probably cost more than the ubiquitous khakis that the dork at the "door" had on.

Dang I'm glad that this idiotic, pseudo-snooty,sartorial snobbery is a thing of the past.

(Oh! Just FYI: My favorite bars back about this time included The Nook, The Crutch, The Hobby Hut, The Western Corral, whatever that bar at the corner of Reno and Sooner? was and The Red Barrel with occasional excursions over to The Hideaway. We tried to steer clear of dives like The Frog Pond. The Eagle's Nest and Maurice's Club. They were too rough. And The Martinique was just a bit too "high-class"--although with no ban on denim. =)

[asw1915]

Pistachio's was in 50 Penn

[bluedogok]

You would be talking about The Balinese Room. It was a casino until the Texas Rangers effectively shut it down in the fifties. From the stories that I have read Galveston was a pretty wild place back in those days. There was someone that reopened it in 2003 but it was lost forever when Hurricane Ike went through in 2008. It is completely gone now.

Wikipedia - The Balinese Room

[RadicalModerate]

That was the place, bluedogok . . . The restaurant was at the far end of the pier. The rest of it was pretty much just an enclosed walkway. Thanks for digging that up.

[DiscoDaddy]

The teen disco was called StarShip 9 located in Warr Acres at 48th & MacArther and operated from 1978 thru 1980. I worked there in my Jr. & Sr. years in high schoold. It was owned by Randy Chandler and he also opened a teen disco on the southside called Safari's in 1979. He also started Christie's Toy Box that was originally called The Adult Toy Box before chaning the name and franchising Christie's. I worked for Randy at all of these businesses. Unfortunately Randy committed suicide and died in OKC.

[bluedogok]

The first time that I went to Galveston was a few months after Ike, you could tell where it used to be. I just knew about it from some motorcycle friends who grew up in the Houston area and used to talk about it quite a bit.

[B_Positive]

Hands down my favorite club was Sherlock's on I-40 & MacArthur. Best dance club in the 80's. I still run into people like myself who love to talk about doing the Gator at midnight. I used to love how the place would go pitch black and they would bring the lights up with the music. Dance floor was always packed, and everyone had a blast! I think it's still open, but people are going more to brick town these days.

[ChoctawNDNGirl]

New here... Im in Costa mesa now and reading these memories are FAB !!... What about Biancas !? In French Market Mall !.. That was a chill out place !.... And someone asked about the owner of After Daddys Money.. Wasnt it Randy Moody, who owned After the Gold Rush ..... ?...... I was so under age when to Gold Rush, and Long Branch Saloon on S Agnew, which I think is now ( still ) Harley World ...... ..aaahhhhhh Goooood times !!!!!

[boscorama]

Second Fret, anyone? (Classen, around where the Blue Goose had been)

[Okcbld]

The Hutch, beer bar in a strip center just south of Britton on N. MacArthur. The place to go back in 1978 or so. Lots of PC people hung out there, when the beer drinking age was lowered to 18.
I was a bartender at Michael's Plum from 1981 to about 1984. The owner of Michael's also owned Pistachios, and he also owned the Across the Street Restaurants. Loved Wednesday nights at Michael's it was ladies night and they could get .25 cent drinks, the place was always packed.

[BBatesokc]

Anyone remember 'Rock and Roll and Then Some' at Club Gators? Here is an old video I have from when we used to go in the 80's. Many of the people in this video are my PCHS classmates. Good Times.

I couldn't find the original file, so, I'm trying to link to my FaceBook. Hope it works. Is it possible to embed video on this forum?

http://www.facebook.com/v/1201646443003

[kevinpate]

Anyone remember 'Rock and Roll and Then Some' at Club Gators? Here is an old video I have from when we used to go in the 80's. Many of the people in this video are my PCHS classmates. Good Times.
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The 80's were magical times ... the hair ... not so much.

[RadicalModerate]

"The 80's 'magical'" . . . ? =)
Obviously you missed The 60's.
(through no fault of your own =)

(Thankfully, we apparently agree that The 70's should be redacted--if not erased--altogether. =)

[Cimmaron]

Bianca's (Jazz Club) in French Market Mall at NW 63rd & May. Whew...had not thought about that place in maaany a year...

[bandsstewart]

My favorites back in the day... 20th Century Electric Company (had the lighted up dance floor like in the movie with John Travolta), and After the Gold Rush, tougher bar, and Fritzi's, large dance floor, extrememly loud, and Long Branch Saloon, tough bar, bikers.

[boscorama]

What was the name of a club in 1980 that featured male strippers? Twas a big deal. The one I'm thinking of was on Hefner Road near Broadway, as I recall. Went there on my 30th birthday, lol.

[BlackmoreRulz]

Hefner & Broadway would be 20th Century that turned into Clementines later. They used to only let ladies in till about 9pm while the guy dancers performed, then unleashed the testosterone to the fired up ladies.

[stratosphere]

Boars Head at 63rd & May

Groovy Bar at the Crosswinds somehwere on May ave

[Pete]

Groovy Bar at the Crosswinds somehwere on May ave

The Crosswinds is still there at about 61st & May on the west side of the street.

For years, it was a "singles only" complex before fair housing laws ended that.

[stratosphere]

The Crosswinds is still there at about 61st & May on the west side of the street.

For years, it was a "singles only" complex before fair housing laws ended that.

Its amazing how many times ive driven past that and never even noticed it - therefore assuming they no longer existed.

We used to stand in line there to get into that club and it was always packed.

[FLOORMSTR]

The gold rush yes

[disinfected]

I have to say, this was a really interesting read for me--even though I was only alive for five years in the 80's.

It's crazy how times have changed.