#vintage nightclub

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rita Hayworth and her then-husband, Orson Welles, at the Stork Club, November 19, 1943. The film stars were expected to go overseas on a USO tour shortly thereafter.

Photo: Associated Press

[fitsofgloom]

I fly high

Hunting nightly, hunting nightly

I search, I search

Through the city, through the city

Like an eagle, like an eagle

[zippocreed501]

Rusty Warren - Bounce Your Boobies (1966)

[inthedarktrees]

Dale Strong at the Latin Quarter nightclub

Lisa Larsen, “Prettiest Showgirl on Broadway,” Life, March 17, 1952

[gayswithchainss]

@manskins

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Cum & Shop!

models: @loganwiththeredhair & @rogertfranco

photography: Rosie Soko

creative direction: @daddylepore

[retropopcult]

Matt Dillon and Molly Ringwald at Limelight NYC, 1986

[twistingcells]

Studio 54 (c. late 1970s)

[setdeco]

FRAN HICKMANN, renovation of the nightclub TRAMP, London, United Kingdom, 2024

[poppingmary]

Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Winchell, Jane Russell, Lucille Ball, Jimmy McHugh and Louella Parsons at Walter Wintchell’s birthday party at Ciro’s Nightclub - May 13, 1953

[twixnmix]

Marlene Dietrich performing at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, 1953.

Photos by Loomis Dean for LIFE magazine

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Small's Paradise, a nightclub in Harlem, 1929.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Fine Art America

[fitsofgloom]

Beware -- The Sweetest Kittens Have The Sharpest Claws!

[the-golden-purple-box]

1975

[inthedarktrees]

Showgirls Play Chess Backstage at the Latin Quarter Nightclub

Gordon Parks, “The Girls Backstage,” Life, Dec 22, 1958

[liesandnights]

The inherent romanticism of slow dancing in the moonlight.

[babsi-and-stella]

Bob Geldof, David Johansen, Rick Derringer and Bebe Buell at Kipling's Last Resort nightclub, New York, May 5, 1979. Photo by Gary Gershoff.