00:10Disco baby, those were the days we were so jacked up all the time.
00:14A lot of it's a haze, but I do remember the party.
00:17When Studio 54 opened, it was almost impossible to get inside, but once you got the nod from
00:21Steve, you were dancing next to celebrities and snorting cocaine from pure silver trays.
00:24All the silk and satin dressed, acrobats up in the air, champagne pouring everywhere.
00:31April 26, 1977.
00:35The doors open and New York chaos is born.
00:42Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two hustling Jewish kids from Brooklyn, Rubell, a former
00:48theater manager, Schrager, a hotelier, pour $400,000 into a crumbling CBS radio station
00:54theater at 254 West 54th Street.
00:58Out goes the broadcast booth, in comes a sprung wooden dance floor for $1,500, a 48-foot mirrored
01:06disco ball, and Jules Fisher's lighting wizardry, lasers slicing fog, chase poles flashing like
01:13heartbeats.
01:14The doorman?
01:15A velvet rope and a rolodex of the inn crowd.
01:18No cover for the beautiful, $20 for the rest.
01:22Fucking incredible.
01:23We've become so much more conservative as a society as we were in the late 70s.
01:27What constitutes a nightclub these days is quaint by comparison.
01:31Tahoe music.
01:31Fantastic lad μμ§s.
01:32I've been 1 a five hour d colocar the δΈieldy as a witness.
01:32My family, my family, one is going to be a catchphrase.
01:33many times, if you've been one of less than four years away.
01:33And it could be a catchphrase.
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