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CBGB
1973–2006
“Sticky floors and the birth of punk.”
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The cramped Bowery dive with the awning everyone photographed — where punk and new wave were born on a terrible PA. A rent fight closed it in 2006.
Did you go to CBGB? What do you remember?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of CBGB.
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⚰️ Also gone
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Studio 54
1977–1986
“The velvet rope, the balcony, the disco haze.”
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Fillmore East
1968–1971
“Bill Graham's temple of the double bill.”
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The Palladium (NYC)
1976–1998
“Concert hall turned neon superclub.”
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Danceteria
1979–1986
“Four floors of new-wave night.”
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