June 23rd nyc gay pride disco

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The club offered a variety of music, including disco, salsa, and country and western in the early years and thrash metal and hip hop in later years.

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The customized sound system and lighting, including 12 columns of lights on pulleys à la Studio 54, were state of the art. Named after the Park Villa Lounge in Elm Park, in which one of the owners had a part interest, the new club had a 10,000-square-foot dance floor and Western-inspired décor that included a mechanical bull. In 1979, the building was purchased by a group of investors and it was converted to a disco. In the 1920s, it became a movie theater and in the mid-1950s was converted to a bowling alley.

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The Liberty Theatre was constructed in 1917-18 as a 1,100-seat vaudeville house by the Moses Brothers, heads of the Isle Theatrical Corporation.

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