747

hello old disco dudes
hi annette
i am the cordito that hung with david and danny
remember that david was the frank deluca clone and always had a crush on anita
and then i started to hang with robert and joey (el negrito) and julio.
i missed your 50 party and also missed roberts
i was living in sw florida

nice to see you all are remembering the good old days
swflangel@yahoo.com

Would love to see you on fb but someone has be blocked???

I just sent you a friend request on facebook

Hey joe there about 3 joe gato on face book?????
are you the one in a relationship with Sylvia ???

Well!!!!! 2 out of 3 are right!!! haha ....
yes I had short hair!!!! and thank you about the GREAT DANCER part" but I had GREEN eyes!!!!!not dark!!! I was a little heaver back then!!! I called it baby fat!!! lol lol.....are you sure its me????
I remember the night of the studio 107 dance off
me & mario took 1st place... Anita & Pat took 2nd
and I think Gil & Milly took 3rd place... wow!!! its GREAT to go back!!!! and remember ... these were truly a GREAT time in my life!!!!I'll look you up on facebook!!!! hope you dont mind???

well you have to see the pictures you had real short hair ,dark eyes great dancer ,you can contact me on face book jose m hidalgo-gato.

OH!!!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!!! IT'S THE AGE!!! HA HA HA HA.....

DO YOU REMEMBER ME??? I MARRIED JUAN
THE BARTENDER ONE THE LAST FLOOR!!!!
big mistake!!!! lol lol I STILL HANG OUT WITH ANITA, & JUANITO!! & ROBERT LESCANO PEPE & GALLEGO!!! DO YOU REMEMBER THEM???

no i was the dj i still have the names of the people dancing that nite on a 12" i was also the dj at speakeasy @ 163 ST AND ALSO AT THE IMPERIAL LOUNGE @ 135 FLANIGANS, my brother tony was the bouncer he got maried to xiomara.

So excited!!!! So Excited!!!!!

Joe!!! it's great to hear from people from the old days!!!!! look me up in face book!!! I'm under Annette Rodriguez I have pictures there of the old gang!!!!!!! hey do you have the magazine??? wow!!! I'm so excited!!!!Yes ... Yes... I think I remember you!!!! you were the bartender up stairs??????

im going to try to put them on later tonite im going to need help from my girlfriend .not to familiar with this computer busines, also have pictures of the regular croud dancing .your pictures were published in a local magazine ,back in the days,im on face book. i still have all my records ,my son jason is lead guitar ,for silenmara rock band ,he writes the music & lyrics.still have my 73 mustang convertible.hope you remember me & lucy the bar tender up stairs,were still alive and kicking,i will try to put them up later.ok

OMG!!! Are you kidding!!!!! i would love to see them!!!!! could I see them??????

annette i have pictures of that nite @ level 3 you and mario dancing .im the dj pepi......

annette i have pictures of that nite @ level 3 you and mario dancing .im the dj pepi......

Wow! I remember Level 3.... Me & Mario Represented Level 3 in the Studio 107 dance off!!!!Ana & Pat Represented Limelight!!! She won the Corvette!!
747, Level 3 Limelight, was the place to be .
Me, Mario,Anita,Carlos,Gil & Milly, Juanito & Aggie,Roberto & Sandra Jackie & Charlie, Joe,Albert,Jorge,Irene,Pepe,Gallego, Luisito, Iggie,Fat Frankie,Alex DJ Ralph & Linda,Ray,
OMG I could go on!!!! I just had my 50th BD Party and had alot of them at my Party!!!!of course it was DISCO!!! Gil was the DJ!!!!!We danced ALL NIGHT LONG!!! LIKE THE OLD DAYS!! I miss those days! Annette

regular bands were : foxy viky sue robinson george mcray willy chirino solo w his piano they usualy plaid on weekdays weekends were just dj.

my brother tony was the bouncer he started more fights than what he stoped!those were realy great times.thusday nights was punk nites thoes people knew how to paty .after go load up at dennys oh lejune.last call 2:00am allways a SLOW song to hoke up before going home .pepe gato dj level 3.met some realy great people there.and the best looking girls ever dont care if they seem plastic once u broke the ice they were just like any girl hot to trot.

hey landy i remember u im pepe gato ralfs cusyn the dj at level . lots of memories got lots of pictures from those times . still got all the music also the sister club was speackeasy at 163 st also big dadys at 49 st hialeah.still got my 1973 mustang.level3 swings

I was at this place 4 nights a week, Friday though Monday from 1977 to about 1980. In my opinion it was the best club in Miami besides Widow McCoys in the Grove and sometimes Scaramouche at the OMNI international. It did have 4 levels but I guess you wouldnt count the entrace floor which had the only 100 watt light bulb in the place, or the "ugly light" as we used to call it. Miami Sound machine played there a few times before they made it big. The dance floor was similar to the one from Saturday Night Fever and the "cockpit" was where the DJ would spin. Great times! Please post photos!

looking for info on bands that worked there
http://www.djalexgutierrezmiami.com/MiamiBandsofthe70s.html

thanks

I WENT WHEN IT WAS LEVEL 3 AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT OWNING IT BUT JIMMY WAS THE DJ ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER TONY WHO ALSO SPUN AT THE TIME... THE MUSIC WAS GREAT..MIAMI SPRINGS P.D. HAD IT CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED SO KNOWONE COULD OPEN A CLUB AGAIN...TOO MUCH NOISE FOR THE HOUSES IN THE SURROUNDING AREA...

I did the sound at Big Daddys with Jim Nygaard, their tech. Jimmy James owned the club across the street...first Brasserie...then renamed Miami Miami. We did the sound there at the time of the new format & name change

The way I Remember it was: FIRST it was 747 Lounge, THEN it became Flanagan's In The Springs (Big Daddy's) and finally it became Level III (or 3).
Yeah it WAS Very Plastic when it was Level III, but still a lot of fun at the end of the Disco era and end of the 70's & early 80's (I remember throwing up in that parking lot one night with my friend and his girlfriend also throwing up, going there after my sister's wedding, laughable NOW!) We still had good times there as all three versions of it...

This is a correction to my comment at the very top. Orlando is right, the very bottom floor was the entrance and where the bathrooms and other amenities were, and “at the time” the walls downstairs were decorated with rocks and you know how I remember that? Okay, I will tell you; is because that’s the wall I pin my wife against and that my friend is when she got the first kiss from me…The lower floor I referred to in my original comment in reality was the middle.
(Gracias por los gratos recuerdos)
Until next time, Pablo. (Roadrunner)

Didn't Jimmy Elias own this club at one time ?

Some one please correct the header up top here, this club had 3 levels plus the downstairs, I know I worked there for years.

the Brasserie was just accros the street from 747 or level 3, the Brasserie became Miami Miami, my ex boss back then owned it with his brother, it was only opened for a few months and then it had a strange kitchen fire.

I remember 747. Went there once on a date with this cute blonde who's father owned one of Miami largest manufacturing companies at the time. He didn't want her going there but she talked me into it.....we were chased out by her dad's body guards but not before I heard one of the best renditions of Stairway To Heaven that was being played by the live rock band that night. That was near the Brasserie.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

that club was ok but. it always had diffrent ouners at times when they got in trouble with the city of medey pd.

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.