Where did you live during the DISCO era?

[Spellbound]

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Where did you live during the DISCO era?

Whenever you travel to that city/state to visit and you see people who you have not seen since back in the day and you tell them that you still listen to and collect DISCO/CLUB music from the 1970's...

Do they laugh at you?

or

What do they say? What is their reaction when you tell them that?

[tehuti]

I lived in New York City during the disco era. The greatest place to be during that time. I have not lived in New York since 1983 and I rarely go back. The people who I would mention disco to were either clubgoers and or deejays, like myself. So they would indeed understand.

[Spellbound]

I have older relatives who were teenagers and in their 20's when I was a baby. This summer I will see some of them for the first time since then. When they find out I collect records from the 1970's and early 1980's, I am not sure what their reaction will be. Some of them may laugh at me or think I am really weird or strange.

Enough about me though. I am more interested in everyone else's stories.

[Discomanic]

Oh man what a good topic. I was in Germany at the very beginning of Disco 1974-1975 (US Army). Got out and moved to Chicago (The Bistro and Carol's In Exile were my favorites). From there to Baltimore, Maryland (Hippo). From Baltimore was easy to get to DC and The Lost and Found (best for their Saturday nights and Sunday Afternoon Tea Dances). During this time visited New York, Boston, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Montreal, Canada. Wish I could go back to those days. Haven't been back to visit these cities in a very long time. All my friends know I'm into disco music and most really like it since they haven't heard most of it before.

[TheLordOfFlatbush]

During the Disco Era, I resided and still live in Brooklyn, NY.

[discodisco]

I lIved in the Union City area until sept.78 then I move with my parents to miami and Disco was alive and well in miami...My friends all know iam a disco nut...I have been collecting Disco cds for years...it's an awesomr collection...My wife is 13 years younger than me...she thinks iam koo koo but sometimes we'll be in my car and i'll have some disco tune blaring and guess what? i hear her humming right along...ahh you see the the force is strong...

[Spellbound]

I guess age has a lot to do with the way people react towards you.

I was born in 1980 so I guess that is why I receive shocked reactions from people I have not seen since I as very young when they learn that I am still into the same DISCO/CLUB music I was into the last time we all saw each other (mid/1980's)

I hope I am explaining myself correctly and not confusing anyone.
This whole situation of seeing people you have not seen in a long time is very strange for me.

However going back to visit an area where one once lived can be very fun. For example I lived in the Richmond, Virginia area growing up and whenever I go back there I always remember how fun the early/mid 1980's were.

[paul]

I lived in the Hartford Connecticut area and Boston. I periodically travelled to Rhode Island, New Bedford, NYC and New Haven.
As for reactions, I wear my love for the music like a badge of honor and I suppose people sense that. Most of the younger people are really fascinated by what the music is. Hearing instruments like violins in a dance song trips them out :D

[RetroRuss]

I was/am a Londoner so consequently that's where my Disco experiences were. As a teenager during the period I was able to experience the 'Disco' scene although I get the impression it was different to what was happening in the US and elsewhere. In the West End (Central or downtown London) there were only a few 'stand-out' clubs.....and a lot of clubs played a mixture of more up-tempo soul, funk as well as disco.

It was great 'growing up' with the music and my friends who also loved the music think it is wonderful that I 'Keep The Faith' and are happy to come to my events, listen to my radio shows and hear the sounds of their youth.

[discogazebo]

i was 2-4 yrs old and living near Laponia and the polar circle in Sweden. Don't have any disco memories. :-(

[Nano]

I was doing highschool in Mar del Plata, a big beach resort with cold waters but lots of surfers. In fact now I remember there was a club (I think it was called New Surf) which promoted their parties with cards with the form of a surf board! All clubs gave you cards at the school door. Some names: Bobby Brown, Maria Lopez (now a gay club), Saquarema, Sobremonte (still open) and the one I went more, New Jimmy's.
Now most of these places are closed or changed towards the unrecognizable. I go to Mar del Plata 3 or 4 times a year to see family but I didn't see any of my school mates for a good time now. Even the guys with which I DJ'ed in home parties and a couple of club stunts I lost contact (one of them, last time I heard of him, had gone to another city to work as a professional DJ).
However, a very good friend of mine in Buenos Aires used to go to Mar del Plata on vacation on those days and he knew all these clubs, so when we get together we put Gino Soccio and reminisce. Of course he still listens to disco and try to convince his friends to dance to it on birthday parties. :)

[Videoskooter]

Born in 1963 in a small town near Antwerp/Belgium I catched much of the Disco-era as an adolescent.

The big cities in Belgium had some awesome discos like the "Jimmy's" and "The Palace" in Antwerp, "The Beatles" and "The Pebbles" in Blankenberge, "The Vaudeville" and "The Garage" in Brussels.

As we travelled with our Bumpercar-tracks from city to city and because my parents revamped those tracks in genuine (from 1976) Disco-style(lightshow, heavy soundsystem, decorations, underground Discomusic), we attracted the attention of Belgian DJ's who gave us mixtapes and invited us into their clubs.

This way, I saw many dancefloors and many chicas !

I always loved the music and people who knew me back then and still come to see me when I'm on a funfair in their neighbourhood, can talk about hours on the subject of the Golden Era!

Even some of them who were wearing long hair, coats with AC/DC and sneakers, remember me as the suave Discodude :lol:

And the few that ask me: "are you still listening to that aweful Discomusic?" Well, I kick their poo-poo-lala, just like I did in the seventies.

You CAN be a good fighter wearing bell-bottoms and high-heeled-boots, you know :lol:

[jam master jay]

Like now, I lived through the Disco era less than an hour from NYC, in Connecticut. The NYC influence was obvious, and there were several great clubs in my neighborhood, though I was a bit young to be in them...

[Keith RS]

PHILLY BABY!!!!

When disco ruled, Philadelphia was belting out the hits by the way of Gamble/Huff and the "Sound of Philadelphia."

Born & raised and still live here!

[DiscoMan]

Born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. "Wistah" is in Central Mass. about 45 miles west of Boston. Finished high school in Wistah as a member of "The Class Of 1970". The period from 1969 to my marriage in the fall of 1978 was just incredible in terms of personnal freedom, things to do and places to go. I spent every Friday and Saturday night in every Rock 'n Roll Club and Disco Club from Wistah to Boston for 8 years. When my bride and I were married I was partied out, drugged out and f**ked out and needed a rest. The '70s were my personnal garden of earthly delights and life has been extremely boring since - I haven't Hustled to Barry White at Jimmyz in the Monte Carlo Sporting Club since. :lol:

IF...I realized then just how special and unique Disco and the '70s would become I would have taken fewer illegal, immoral and illicit substances, not abused myself in "other" ways and generally been more aware of my surroundings so that my memories today would be sharper.

There is much truth to "If you remember the '70s, you weren't there"... :lol: