Plato's Retreat
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Plato's Retreat
509 West 34 Street, New York, NY
Owner:
Larry Levenson
Djs:
Adam Liotti And Bacho Mangueal
Plato's Retreat was the best club ever. Manager, Adam Liotti did a great job playing music and running the club. Many stars such as Sammy Davis Jr, Dangerfeild, Ben Gazzara and countless others. This was the place for Disco and the Disco lifestyle. Do what you want, it's your life just have fun. Plato was a free thinker and so were disco fans.
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YOUR MEMORIES & COMMENTS ON Plato's Retreat
OH, THE THINGS THAT WENT ON..THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND, WE THOUGHT THEY NEVER END.......
Wow when i think of the days at the retreat, Bacho hi sweetie....... Do i miss these days
I remember waiting outside for the "New" Plato's to open on their opening night. Used to go to Plato's when Larry was at the Ansonia Hotel. The new club was great, especially the pool in the middle which wasn't open for the grand opening. And YES.......the things that went on in there.....WOW.
Wow is right. I starting thinking about the club when I found an old match book. Which I promptlly stored someplace safe. I was there all the time. A short long legged blond wearing a white silk robe when not engaged in play. :) I miss the 80's waaaaaaa lol
sorry i missed it
I was the frist DJ to play at the club for then 3yrs started at 72st.
Went to Plato's Retreat a few times in the 70's. A male friend wanted me to go as his escort so he could get in.
I was free to go and do while he did his own thing. I remember the swimming pool. Also people dressed in towels dancing alongside of others dressed to the nines. Great music and everybody was so friendly. I had a T-shirt that was black and white with the words Plato's Retreat on it. Whenever I wore that, it got a response. It was a really wild place where you could let go and have fun.
Linda Cafarella
I was free to go and do while he did his own thing. I remember the swimming pool. Also people dressed in towels dancing alongside of others dressed to the nines. Great music and everybody was so friendly. I had a T-shirt that was black and white with the words Plato's Retreat on it. Whenever I wore that, it got a response. It was a really wild place where you could let go and have fun.
Linda Cafarella
AND THEN SOME...LOL
I drove by it a few times, does that count? lol
It was an experience seldom aperson feels in his life it was great and exciting, we do miss it
Used to go there every with two weeks on business stopped in at 9PM left at 3 am escorted. Everything you hear is true!!!!....WOW unbelievable fun...the year was 1982 coooooooooooooooooooooooool
thay was talking about it on vh1s ny in 1977 the coolest year in hell.thats where I saw it.at.
Does anyone remember The Zoo in times square?
i remember plato's SOOO well! i went every 2 weeks and boy oh boy! i wish those days were here now!!! and the food was THE BEST! once a bad girl always a bad girl.......
My wife and I where just talking about clubs like Plato's. Where have they gone? Underground? What Clubs exist today in NYC where we can re-live those erotic experiences and escape the stress and tension of the city rat race??? Any suggestions/reviews??
I still have pieces of the RLA system that was in there. bought it after it went under
ON MONDAY NIGHTS SINGLE MEN WERE ALLOWED IN. WALKED AROUND NAKED, SEX WITH COUPLES. EXHIBITIONISTS DREAM. THAT WAS ORGY HEAVEN!
i remember the zoo, beleive it was on 52 street between broadway and 8th ave, been there onc or twice in th early 80's. pictures of animals with bars painted over them to look like a zoo seen. a big lion sticks out in my head. then again i know alot of my brain cells were lost in that era
I remember the disco dance floor with sofa's on the side with couples doing their thing. The orgy room, the back rooms the pool, suana, steam rooms, the massage tables. It was the best adult night club ever the people were down to earth. You did or didn't no one cared. So many beautiful men and women.
I miss it. Looking for a place like it now
Ah did the dream have to die
I miss it. Looking for a place like it now
Ah did the dream have to die
FUN ..FUN...FUNN..FOR EVERYBODY..
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
MANY OF THEM VERY FAMOUS AND WELL KNOWN SO FAR...
NEW YORK WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER CLUB LIKE PLATOīS..
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ...
RESPECT AMONG EVERYBODY...
DONīT NEED TO KNOW HER NUMBER JUST NEED TO KNOW HER BODY, YOU CAN PLAY THE BEAT AT PLATOīS RETREAT...MARVELOUS...!!!
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
MANY OF THEM VERY FAMOUS AND WELL KNOWN SO FAR...
NEW YORK WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER CLUB LIKE PLATOīS..
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ...
RESPECT AMONG EVERYBODY...
DONīT NEED TO KNOW HER NUMBER JUST NEED TO KNOW HER BODY, YOU CAN PLAY THE BEAT AT PLATOīS RETREAT...MARVELOUS...!!!
The club that almost closed NEW YORK. The city government was so repulsed by what would go on inside, that they tried to pass City ordinances to close them. Lawyers and the courts stopped them, but Plato'Retreat was so sexually indecent(to city fathers) that it almost ruined everything. There were orgies, wife and husband swapping, sex in the pool, sex in the can, sex on the floor, sex on the couches, a complete revolution of sex and drugs. I always wondered how often the deejays got laid in there?? Two, three times a night?? The sound system? I never heard it. The light show? I never saw it. That wasn't why you went to PLATO'S RETREAT. It was to do drugs and have wide-open SEX with strangers and others!!! Those were the days my friend, only AIDS put a stop to them!! A SOLID,HUGE TEN on my scale from 1 to 10.
I remember the night like it was yesterday. As you entered, you went to the lockers and wore nothing but a towel. I experienced some great events that night. The group rooms with porn playing while others played and a lady sitting in a chair taking care of a line of men with her husband standing beside her as she got her fill. The buffet of food was impressive as Ron Jeremy sat down beside me to watch the lady on stage sa\it on fire and extinguished the flames. I got in as a single male and enjoyed the night to the fullest.
I, too, remember it as if it were yesterday! A guy I was dating wanted to go, so I went with him as men couldn't go alone then. It was definitely the 80's...When we entered, and changed into towels, we walked around a bit, checking out the place; the guy (my date) found a woman he wanted to play with, but when I saw her husband dressing in a towel and combat boots, I said absolutely NOT!!! I then told the date to go off on his own, as I would, and we could meet up at 4AM, maybe, to leave. I had a BLAST! Oh, the good ol' promiscuous days of my youth...aaaah! Definitely was lots of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll!!
One of the Original Owners of Plato's in NYC opened up Plato's Repeat down in Ft. Lauderdale some years ago. He has since passed away and his wife was running the place.
I worked at Platos Retreat. It was the best two years of my life.
I would love to reminisce about Plato's with any women out there. I'm sure you have stories as do I. It's been quite some time.those that didn't experience it, just don't understand. Thanks, Tony
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