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2001 Odyssey
802 64th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Odyssey (currently Spectrum): This disco landmark where "Saturday Night Fever" was filmed has sadly just closed it's doors on February 12, 2005 and will be demolished, as reported in the NYTimes this week. The original light up dance floor will be auctioned on EBay in April.
I have so many great memories hanging out here on Saturdays & Thursdays during it's incarnation as the gay club Spectrum since 1987. Saw so many great shows here like Divine, Village People, France Joli, Hazell Dean, Lime, Evelyn Champagne King, Alisha, Chaka Khan..many many more! Regrettably I have not been there in about a year and I will miss this place! It was always such a throwback & off the beaten path type of blast and can never be duplicated.
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So many good memories topped off by the making of the movie.
I had the priveledge of being there when Saturday night fever was being filmed! My friend & I were there! We were visiting from Fla., and decided to check out this disco, and well the rest is history! Too bad they are going to destroy something that has so many memories. Does anyone remember seconds in queens? Thanks, Beth
I AM TRYING TO REG TO THIS SITE BUT HAVING SOME TROUBLE I AM HOPING SOME ONE WILL GET THIS I AM LOOKING AT ALL OF THESE CLUBS AND THERE WAS A CLUB THAT I FEEL LIKE SHOULD BE MENTIONED IT WAS IN THE CITY OF MEMPHIS TENNESSEE AND IWAS A DISCO CLUB BY THE NAME OF STUDIO 16 FOR TEENS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 TO 18 AND IT WAS THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE JUST THOUGHT I WOULD MENTION IT THANK YOU
Never have been to Odyssey, but have had many good times at Spectrum. How could anyone let this LANDMARK be demolished....for shame.
Does anyone remember a singer at the club called Vince Capri? He used to sing live with disco music...sort of like early Kareoki~!
I remember Vince Capri. There was also a singer there named Kathy Ashley. Unfortunately I can't shed any light on the who, what, when, where, or why of them. Don't know if they still singing or are still alive...Anybody???
There was another location on Long Island in Bayshore. It was located on Sunrise Highway in the what used to be Marshalls. It was tucked in a corner but you could hear the DJ practicing in the afternoon when you walk through Marshalls shopping in the rear of the store.
During my only visit to NYC (so far), I was in a record store in the Village and the subject of disco came up. The store owner told me of Odyssey. I went that same night and stayed for hours and hours, dancing on the famous floor. The DJ played almost everything I asked for and everyone was so friendly. That night easily eclipsed the rest of the time I spent in the city. It was like a gift from Heaven. It's regrettable that a place like this can't be saved from the wrecking ball. This lucky Texan will miss it.
I was a DJ at the 2001 club in Memphis in the late 70's for 4 years. I also worked as the DJ for the Studio 16 that Susan talked about. I would love to hear from her, do you remember me.Randy Chambers email me Randallbe@aol.com
Was lead singer of the song Got To Getcha Back by The Sons Of Robin Stone performed here in the 70's anyone remember shoot me an e-mail ? Jim
OMG Winewhore, when I divorced my 1st hubby I was a DISCO DOG GIRL there, at the Bayshore 2001 for awhile. I sold hotdogs...it really was fun. It was a great experience to meet guys. Thanks for those memories!! You don't hear anyone talk much about the Bayshore one.
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Yes, not too many people talk about that one but I lived in CI so that is where I went. If you listen to 1Club FM and click on Old school dance-70's, they will play all the 12inch remixes from that time...
Mary-aka winewhore!
The location, 802 64 Street, is now a medical building. A number of Brooklyn ex-discos have become medical buildings. I'm sure many a former dancer now in his/her 50s is now a patient of one of those many doctors! A weird irony indeed!
802 64 Street, Brooklyn
GREAT FUN MEMORIES!!!
What an experience this club was. Of course when I started going it was a gay club called "Spectrum". I loved being around those gay Italian boys from Brooklyn..Being latino from Brooklyn!..lol But really, I started going in 1993 and I lived in queens at the time and my most memorable night was one day I went with friends to this club and they were with dates and I was dating at the time but nothing serious, and I was single for that night only and while hanging out with my friends we all went to the dance floor and the floor was lit up like Saturday Night Fever...lol and this guy walk in and just started dancing near me and I thought nothing of it until he came up to me and just started dancing with me without saying one word. So we dance and when it was time to go(closing time), he walk me to the R train not too far from there and we talked and I just made out with him and it was one of the best make out sessions I ever had. What a hottie he was. Too bad he was very married...to another man that is.
This is the club that helped put DISCO on everyones tongues in the mid-seventies. A very popular DISCO that was packed everyday. The dance floor was the first of its kind. The famous DISCO BALL was huge, and became a standard in every DISCO that followed. But Disco Tex and his sexolettes were not a part of the club itself. Monti Rock III played the deejay in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, but wasn't 2001 ODYSSEY' s deejay. I can't remember who the deejay actually was? But he was good, always packed the floor. A 5 to 1 female to male ratio on Saturday nights made this a place to go to. On my scale of 1 to 10, because of its importance to DISCO it has to get a TEN!!!
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