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It was the disco era, and the Vegas appearance VIP in Strawberry Square was the abode to be in Harrisburg.
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How to Dress Up for a Disco Party (with Pictures) - wikiHow | Disco Dress Up MaleThe multi-room VIP club and restaurant operated for six years in the 1980s. It admiring singles, lobbyists and legislators, as able-bodied as the under-21 army who all came for the disco dancing, alive bands and high-tech video and ablaze shows.
"It was like a Vegas-style place," said buyer Carl Lynch who now lives in Meadville.
The club opened in January 1980 at a time aback there were not abounding restaurants and clubs in Harrisburg. For Lynch, this was his fifth bistro that included antecedent runs in Meadville and Greensburg, Pennsylvania as able-bodied as Rochester and Jamestown, New York.
It amount $1.8 actor to accessible the VIP, able-bodied aloft the advancing $800,000 budgeted, he said. But it was all accounted a success. Added than 3,000 bodies showed up on aperture night.
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Best 25 70s costume ideas on Pinterest | 60s inspired fashion ... | Disco Dress Up MaleThey danced in the aback amphitheater breadth there were disco balls, projectors and 16-by-20 bottom video screens. Synchronized ablaze shows ran at midnight and included a Harrisburg appearance with photos of the burghal accommodating to music.
Harrisburg advocate Thomas Gacki, who admits he didn't like disco, recalls trips to the VIP on Friday nights for $7 all-you-could-drink specials. He now works out at the U-Fitness which is amid in the aforementioned atom as the VIP in Strawberry Square.
"They would backpack the big allowance breadth the ball attic was with a big bar off to one side," he said. "They had the adorned bathrooms with an accessory and arrangement of colognes."
It wasn't abnormal for 300 to 400 bodies to pop in on weekday blessed hours, Lynch said, abacus it was a accepted bar atom for the Capitol crowd. Sometimes the buzz would arena and the legislators and lobbyists would run aback to the Capitol to vote, he recalled.
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What to Wear to a 70s Party | Disco Dress Up MaleThe VIP was added than aloof a bar and a hot atom for disco. The VIP hosted "Sexy Buns" contests for males and females and ladies nights with macho dancers.
"The ladies would go crazy for them," Lynch said.
Bands such as the Flamingos and The Drifters played in the VIP's Razzy's breadth Tiny Tim additionally performed as able-bodied as added acclaimed comedians, Lynch said.
There were under-21 nights alleged Funzies which would allure 1,000 bodies on Sunday nights. Halloween was one of Lynch's admired times of year.
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For bristles weeks the VIP offered bank bank clash style, the aboriginal abode in Pennsylvania to cull it off. However, the governor's appointment – appropriate beyond the artery from the club – noticed and bound afflicted the laws, Lynch said.
By 1986, aback the disco fad angry to rock, Lynch said they could no best abide to accomplish the VIP as the crowds died off. From the start, Lynch said the club was a big advance that never did accomplish a banking return. It eventually bankrupt due to bankruptcy, he said.
Throwback Thursday is a account alternation demography a attending aback at ancient restaurants in the Harrisburg area. Jimmy Rosen, buyer of The Old Sled Works in Duncannonand Kyle Weaver, co-author of "Diners of Pennsylvania" have attentive aggregate their expertise, old photographs and memorabilia for Throwback Thursday.
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