#vintage nightclub

[newyorkthegoldenage]

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

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Fine Art America

[fitsofgloom]

I fly high

Hunting nightly, hunting nightly

I search, I search

Through the city, through the city

Like an eagle, like an eagle

[inthedarktrees]

Dale Strong at the Latin Quarter nightclub

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

[atomic-chronoscaph]

At Studio 54 in the late 1970s

[retropopcult]

Matt Dillon and Molly Ringwald at Limelight NYC, 1986

[setdeco]

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

[vintagepromotions]

Cover of the menu at The Stork Club, Rhode Island (c. 1930).

[twistingcells]

Studio 54 (c. late 1970s)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A glamorous table at the Stork Club on December 6, 1946: Ernest Hemingway, Ingrid Bergman (with bangs!), and Charles Boyer. Bergman starred in the film version of Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Photo: Associated Press

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Juke Box Saturday Night, Downtown Minneapolis (1980s)

📸: Earl Leatherberry

[fitsofgloom]

Beware -- The Sweetest Kittens Have The Sharpest Claws!

[inthedarktrees]

Backstage at New York’s Latin Quarter nightclub

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

[the-golden-purple-box]

1975

[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

[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.