re: Tell me about your club days

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AT2, Brunos, TJ Quills, Sharkey's Reef, Melius, Gold Mine, Confetti's, Sitting Duck, Neo Beach, F&M Patio Bar, Miss Mae's, Friar Tucks, The Bounty, Spiders, Spats, Cats Meow, Pat O'Briens, Deja Vu, Shanahans, Gators, Mudbugs, 4141, Madigans, Nicks Big Train, City Lights, Que Sera, Parkway, Par 4's

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Used to hit many of these in the late 90's, Also:

Fat Harry's
Hyde Park...I think that was the name, by Oschner,

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Shreveport late 90s to late 00s (I was in bands and I briefly DJ'd):

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Dang Donkus. Probably just barely missed out on getting to hear you DJ. Was pretty much done with the club scene by 94 when I got married.

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Gold Club early 2000's

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I need a Winn Dixie grocery bag full of cash to the VIP room.

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A typical Sunday morning

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that pic is fantastic

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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City's East Village neighborhood. "Robots," as the venue was popularly known, operated illegally from a nondescript storefront and basement at 25 Avenue B, between East 2nd and 3rd Streets, from 1983 until mid-1984, when the club was shut down for fire safety violations. After undergoing safety-related renovations and obtaining a social club license, the venue reopened in early January 1986.

The club was frequented by drag performers, musicians, Club Kids, employees of other bars and clubs, skinheads and other denizens of downtown New York nightlife, including Dean Johnson and Lady Bunny.[1] Save the Robots was known for its late hours of operation and sold only vodka, soda and fruit juice. Patrons typically arrived after 4 a.m. and partied until the 8 a.m. closing time, often with the aid of recreational drugs. At one point, talk show host Craig Ferguson worked there as a bouncer

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WRONG. it was nicknamed "the savage", not "robots".

i was there in spring of 1986 and it was quite something. I still remember walking in and it was like a 1980s British music video had come to life.

the first thing i saw was 2 gay dudes dressed up in green tights like the statue of liberty complete with matching 'torches' in their hands and they were standing on a small stage dancing in perfect sync with each other. i kept looking around for the lead singer of ABC or Spandau Ballet to come out from a dark corner lip syncing a song.

there were girls dressed up with the craziest head gear you've ever seen, entire cities on top of their heads, working trains going around in a circle, smokestacks puffing real smoke out of the tops...it was INSANE. this is what Power Tools could only dream of being.

felt like i had arrived. i just had a few vodka sodas and watched the show.

even after they shut down and everyone was kicked out onto the street the X (or was it E?) kids were still GOING STRONG on the sidewalk outside to music only they could still hear in their heads.

it was really a fun time to club hop as a college-aged kid. i don't think anything like that exists anymore..certainly not in that mix of innocence and decadance that defined so much of the 80s and 90s.

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Top Gun
Siesta
Somewhere Else
Bobbisox

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Private Eyes
1900 Club
Siesta
Sals
N Zone, Cooter Bay or whatever the name was at the time.
Rarely went to Bobbisox

Like someone said, it was more bars than "clubs" for me. Early 80s to 1990s:

New Orleans:
Napoleon House in da Quarter, Carrollton Station, Café Banquette, Molly's at the Market (in the FQ), Da F&M Patio Bar (big hangout), The Boot and whatever the name was of the place on the corner of Freret and Broadway (it's now The Palms), Melius (in the quarter), AT2's, Brunos, TJ Quills, Phillips, Andy Capp's, Spider's Web out by UNO, Pat O'Brien's, Flamingo's, Shanahan's, Nick's Big Train, Parkway, Par 4's, Cooter Brown's, The Bulldog, Augie's Delago on the lake... in the mid 90s, used to get off work and go have a few drinks with co-workers catty-corner from our office, at Michael's Mid-City Grill.

Metairie:
For a few years we hung out A LOT at the Red Bastille (the original little hole in the wall on Harvard Avenue). In the 1990s when we were all getting married and before anyone had kids, we frickin' LIVED at Bandi's Tavern (now Winston's Pub). We drank so much beer they sponsored us for a men's basketball league (paid our entry fees) and we played as "The Evil Clowns of Bandi's". We also went to Pat Gillen's before it closed. Never was into the Fat City scene.

Jed's, Jimmy's, Tipitina's, Deja Vu, the Dream Palace and upstairs at Andy Capp's were our spots to see live music.

Used to go to The Rainforest on top of the Hilton for the $5 "Sippin' into Sunset" happy hour on Fridays.

Shanegolang

What school in Avoyelles did you attend and year you graduated?

I go to Sam's about once a week. Probably tomorrow.