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A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque (usually simply known as disco ) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays , and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music.
The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history and the third-deadliest single-building fire (after the September 11 attacks and Iroquois Theatre fire). The Cocoanut Grove was one of Boston's most ...
At its peak, the Home Nightclub chain included two large clubs in Sydney and London, as well as hosting the outdoor dance music festival, Homelands.The Nightclub chain was the dream of Ron McCulloch and Big Beats (Inc) who had intended for a broader worldwide chain of clubs, which included advanced plans for a New York club, as well as plans for clubs in Singapore and Buenos Aires and outdoor ...
In the late 1950s Pandora's Box was a popular coffeehouse located at 8118 Sunset Boulevard, on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights Boulevard.Home to some of the more adventurous artists in town, Pandora's Box hosted up-and-coming jazz musicians such as Les McCann and Carla Bley, while artist Burt Shonberg adorned the interior of the club with a mural similar to his works in the ...
Bad Brains performing at Nightclub 9:30 in 1983 The entrance to the original Nightclub 9:30 in the Atlantic Building in 1990 The interior of the original Nightclub 9:30 in 1990 with the stage visible in the background. Nightclub 9:30 was founded by artist and dancer Dody DiSanto and her husband, Jon Bowers, a local real estate developer and ...
Opera Nightclub was a nightclub located in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was Atlanta's most popular and successful nightclub in terms of revenue and attendance and has also been featured in Nightclub & Bar's Top 50 Clubs in the United States for 2015.
The Stardust fire was a fatal fire which took place at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland, in the early hours of 14 February (Valentine's Day) 1981.More than 800 people were attending a disco there, of whom 48 died and 214 were injured as a result of the fire; in later years suicides of survivors and family members were also linked to the event.
Pulse was a gay bar, dance club, and nightclub in Orlando, Florida, founded in 2004 by Barbara Poma and Ron Legler. On June 12, 2016, the club was the scene of the second-worst mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the September 11 attacks. Forty-nine people were killed and 58 ...