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747
Miami Springs, Florida
Airline crowd as it was near Miami International 'Airport. Two floors.
Orlando Perez a.k.a Landy in 1980 on a Thursday night working at Level or 747. Photo courtesy of Orlando Perez.
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Hi everybody.
It was something like 1975 that I started to visit this discotheque and I was 19 then. The place was special because the kind of crowd that you would find every weekend, also the DJ’s choices of disco mixes and really good groups they would bring in to play live music not to mention the sound system and lights show. Everybody dressed elegant and there was very good dancers. The place was design so that the people could see the dance floor and the band platform from the lower and upper level, however, from the lower level when it was crowded all you could see was legs. Under the dance floor there was the restrooms, telephones etc. The DJ’s space was the nose of a cot pit of a big jet (747?) and it was high above the dance floor protruding from the wall. I had a friend named Rafael (maybe known as Ralph around those circles) that for some time He was the DJ and very good at that.
Saturdays I would shine my 69 Orange Roadrunner in the afternoon and thereafter I would dress to impress and sometime I would also practiced some dace steps with my sister in anticipation for the big party at the 747 club. (By now those of you that I had the privilege of knowing, may know who I’m)
In December 31 of 1976 after family dinner and all, as usual I got ready and went to the 747 and if I remember properly the special guest was George McCrae and that evening with a gentle tap from the back, on the shoulder of a beautiful young lady and a “would you like to dance?” We dance a slow tune and she became my girl friend for about 3 months and then we married and now are going to be 28 years since.
I hope that you enjoy my memories of those wonderful times related to the Miami 747 night club, as much as I have enjoy reading yours of that area in general and thank you to the owner (s) of this excellent discomusic.com web site for the inspiration.
that club was ok but. it always had diffrent ouners at times when they got in trouble with the city of medey pd.
the club was not in medley, it was in Miami Springs, and Ralph was my best friend, and his cousin was the other Dj there, and when it started to change from Disco to punk rock, I was the dj 3 nights a week, I would go by the name of Landy or orlando, i have a picture still of me working the booth or the Cockpot as we knew it, that was our fix after the limelight died it was 6 blocks from my house and miami springs cops harrased me every night when I would go home. I also use to have the cleaning contract with the club. so I would stay after everyone would leave and find all kinds of goodies on the dance floor.
At the top of the description, it says that the club had 2 levels, that is incorrecct, the club had the bottom level entance and the restrooms and vending machines, then the first bar level, then the dance floor level, the the upper bar level, so if you count the bottom it was 4 levels, if you do not then it was 3 level, or as the name became level 3, and by the way on my previous comment, i had a typo, the dj booth was called the cockpit, because originally it was shapped like the nose of an airplane.
A long time standard in the 70's, this club was consistently at the top of it's game. One of the first clubs I went to in Miami. Lots of fine Cuban women there all the time, but there wasn't enough variety. It was "PLASTIC", busy but too sleezy always. The deejays at times were brilliant, at others they sucked. On a scale of 1 to 10, a 5.
There was a big difference between 747 and LEVEL. 747 was the original club, it was around since the early 70's until about 1978 or so. Then it became a Big Daddy's. After that it became LEVEL, do you guys from Hialeah remember it that way, or was I on drugs when I went there?? 747 had HOUSE bands and a deejay, LEVEL was all deejay. Plus LEVEL called itself a DISCO, 747 was a local bar!! Either way, there was plenty going on there wasn't there!
Hey there Vyniljunkie, it was not level, it was called Level 3, and it was not only mostly dj at least on the weekends, there would always be a band, and from Disco it went to Newwave and yes there was plenty going on in there every night, I learned tu Hustle there in 75 and a lot of the girls were very plastic.
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