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Elephas
210-22 Northern Boulevard
Bayside, Queens, New York
Early Disco in the New York City boro of Queens. One of its early resident DJs was Jimmy Yu who later moved to the Miami, Florida area.
It also had a sister club Elephas North.
The scan of the Elephas admission ticket submitted by Charlie G.
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Very classy disco.Best sound system I ever heard. I really loved this place.
i was the dj at elephas 1974-81 untill the day it closed back then it was the place to go people from queens brooklyn long island we had a great crowd.
Great dancers. I was there the night Son of Sam shot a guy outside.
OOOOOH Elephas!! I used to go every Friday and Saturday night back in the early 80's. It was a hot neighborhood club back in the day - drinking age back then was only 18, so most of the kids hanging out were anywhere from 17-21. I used to get wasted out of my mind on Long Island Ice Teas, while wearing my white capezio shoes!! LOL
Barb you must be from long island so maybe you can remember a club named la tek .I can not remember where it was located.I went a couple of times but never left in the same condition as i went in.
My grandmother used to live near there and I remember a very long time ago we'd drive by on Northern Blvd and the building was a restaurant or diner or something and then it became a disco. Of course I remember it to be the place where "Son of Sam" shot one of his victims. I was 17 that summer.
I WAS THERE THAT NITE TOO. NOW I WORK FOR THE BROTHER OF ONE OF THE BOUNCERS THAT WORKED THERE. THE CLUB YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WAS LA'TIQUE, IT WAS IN LEVITTOWN.
I was there the night Elvis died and the DJ played Jailhouse Rock and everyone got on the dancefloor doing Elvis impersonations.
What was the name of the joint
on Bell Blvd next to the Bayside movies?
The joint on Bell Blvd by the movies was the Gunn Club, later it became Raw, now it is some Chinese joint.
Gunn Club was on (heavy metal) nights- Camouflage was new wave night, I forget other nights' names
Back in the day..the Gunn Club aka Avanti on disco nights had some cool ocal bands...White Trash, Batalion and my favorite R.A. Roller among others. It was a good time.
Yeah I was one of the many DJ's during that time...
Michael Hacker, Anthony Cintorino, Ted Chang
I worked at Jerry's over by the LIE (495) Fresh Meadows Queens funny that now I googled this after all the years gone by... What a blast from the past. I remember that night good thing I missed it.
LOL well feel free to look me up... www.digerati-master.com
I went to Elephas and was there the night Son of Sam AKA David Berkowitz was caught. Our pic sdated Michael djHacker, who I believe wa one of the best dj's in NYC in the 80's. He was just as good as Larry L of the GARAGE in Manhattan.
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