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Club OVO
1450 Coliins Ave., Miami Beach, Florida
The first upscale club on Miami Beach set the standard for clubs to follow.
OVO's lavishly decorated interior was not designed to just attract the wealthy,but the super rich.
OVO's home address also becmae the address to other well known clubs.
The China Club, Rhythm Club and the most popular gay club S. Florida ever had,The Warsaw Ballroom.
Today OVO's stylish art deco building stands as a deli.
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I ate at the Deli last year. When I look at those pictures, it really shows such a difference. Too bad Disco didn't last like horrible Rap is doing.
What a waste of money, not only the club itself, but actually going there. very expensive place to go to, very exclusive, and that alone was its downfall, the rich found other places soon. it is now a JERRY'S Deli, and just as full as it was when it was OVO. Beautiful club, excellent sound system. The deejays were lame, and the women that went, were stuck-up. Had its best success when it had GAY night.On my scale of 1 to 10, a 4.
After lobbying hard with the help of one of my connections I was able to get a DeeJay gig in Club OVO a few sporadic weekend nights during the first few months of the club’s opening.
By this time I had been Deejaying for years but this was the first time I personally experienced the "Rotating Dj” concept in the Miami area, a new concept (to me) exported from the east (USA), and one that later -- and to this day--became the “norm” but never the less I hated at the time.
This club’s management would assign different Djs (don’t remember how many, but more than four) nights all over the calendar, (not any fixed nights! ) making it very difficult to include other club’s nights in my repertoire and therefore making it next to impossible for any DJ to make a living. (Especially at the pay rates of the day)
A few times schedules got mixed up causing two of the Djs to show up on the same night, not only the ensuing argument--among Djs and manager--that followed was not a good prelude for a night of DJ spinning (if you were able to keep the night) but hauling heavy vinyl crates back out to the car without pay (if you lost the night) was sure to piss you off for a few days to come.
I only Djed around here for a few weeks (don’t even remember what happened) but the nights I spun there the club was great, even if I didn't recognized a single soul in the crowds.
After the crowds got liquored up during the warm up early hours the dance floor was packed the rest of the night, including many exhibitionist and stunning looking female “models” that made the Dance floor their private playground.
The clientele here was very exclusive, with many out of town and well to do professional people that liked to party hard and were beginning to gravitate to what was then a nascent South Beach's night life.
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