They’re physically gone, but these performance spaces still live on in vintage newspaper ads—in this case the September 1984 issue of monthly East Village arts paper East Village Eye.
It must have been rough getting over to Chandalier, between Eighth and Ninth Streets off Avenue C. In 1984, this wasn’t exactly gentrified territory.
“The door opens onto a long narrow room, the front half of which serves as the performance space and seating area,” states this reference. “The back half houses the wooden bar with several wobbly stools, a fireplace that doesn’t seem to work, and piecemeal old furniture where spectators sit waiting for the performance to start.”
Today the building houses a hardware store.
The Shuttle, not far away on East Sixth Street between Avenues A and B, opened in 1984. A former squat, the space hosted readings, art exhibits, and East Village character/character actor Rocket Redglare’s cabaret show.
121 West 31st Street is an unmarked storefront, and almost no trace of Pizza a Go Go—a former dance club?—remains.
But there is this reference to the place; it’s on a page of party pics featuring a young Madonna and other cool kids from a monthly paper called NY Talk.
Tags: 1980s New York City, Chandalier, downtown NYC clubs NYC, East Village clubs, East Village Eye, Madonna 1980s New York City, Pizza a Go-Go, The Shuttle
April 12, 2012 at 8:47 am |
“Save The Robots” on Avenue B between 2nd & 3rd.
Early 80s, if memory serves me right.
April 12, 2012 at 1:36 pm |
“9/19 JIM STALEY / JOHN ZORN”
ah memories.
but i’m still listening to them!
April 12, 2012 at 2:01 pm |
I’m curious about what “My Hustler II” was about….
April 12, 2012 at 8:26 pm |
Andy Warhol did “My Hustler,” a film about a gay man who brings a handsome hustler to Fire Island. He made a sequel. Warhol did many films to amuse himself and his friends. Most were a bit strange.