Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say (Published 2020) (2024)

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How did Peter Gatien lose his eye? ›

Gatien, who lorded over the clubs in his pirate-like eye patch after losing his left eye in a childhood accident while playing stickball, has never denied that drugs were prevalent at his clubs.

Peter Gatien opened the first Limelight nightclub in Hallandale, Florida, in the 1970s.

Peter Gatien acquired the 80,000-square-foot nightclub in 1992. Tunnel closed its doors late in 2001 due to non-payment of rent and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's quality-of-life campaign.

Club USA, the $8 million nightclub-cum-playground that draws crowds of tourists and young New Yorkers each weekend, is to close next month, said its owner, Peter Gatien. Mr. Gatien said he was vacating the space, at 218 West 47th Street, at Broadway, because the building was in foreclosure.

The Limelight is the name of a string of different nightclubs that were owned and operated by Peter Gatien: one in Miami, one in Atlanta, one in New York, and one in London.

Following a slew of closures related to drug issues, the space reopened under the name Avalon in 2003, but permanently closed in 2007. Since then, the building has been used as a market, a David Barton Gym, another gym and, now, a theater.

Located in a strip mall shopping center near the intersection of Peachtree and Piedmont Roads, the Limelight, a mega-sized disco nightclub, operated from 1980 to 1987, becoming known as the “Studio 54 of the South.” The Limelight famously featured such innovations as a glass dance floor, a snow machine, a confetti ...

Limelight reopened until it finally closed down for good in 2007. But before it was even a nightclub, the building was actually a church first constructed in 1844. It was known as the Church of the Holy Communion.

The Kings Cross Tunnel is a twin-tube road tunnel in Sydney, Australia. It runs beneath Kings Cross from William Street to New South Head Road.

The owner of Soho in Kings Cross, Andrew Lazarus, confirmed the closure to industry website inthemix after rumours circulated on social media at the weekend. A promotional photo for the Soho nightclub posted on Facebook. "The lockout laws have destroyed an entertainment precinct, making us the latest victim," he said.

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Going out in the '90s primarily meant going to one of the city's mega clubs, huge places with an ever-changing carousel of costumes, faces, themed parties and rooms, and the latest, most addictive music. It was the antithesis of boredom, a form of creative chaos like nothing else!

New York in the 1990s was off-kilter, unfiltered, and out of focus. We – artists, musicians, punks, underground dwellers – lived in neighbourhoods the police largely let police themselves, below the radar of mainstream society, carving lives out of the city's bedrock with our bloody fists.

In November 2020, the club's managers stated that it had made the decision to keep the club permanently closed. The signature jockey statues were removed in December 2020.

Wahaaj Tariq and Amna Wahaaj are the co-founders of Limelight, a popular fashion clothing brand based in Pakistan.

The Limelight Nashville announced its closing on social media Tuesday, saying it was due to "unforeseen circ*mstances." Owner Dennis Jones told Newschannel 5, he was facing many hurdles the last few years including an increase in rent.

1852–1976: Holy beginnings

The Church of the Holy Communion was initially built in the mid-19th century, when Sixth Avenue was home to some of the wealthiest New Yorkers, like Horace Greeley, Edith Wharton, and even members of the Roosevelt family.

Avalon, the former Limelight, was transformed by Wonder Works into one of the most cutting edge nightclubs in the world. Out of the structure of the previous historic church, a modern club design combined with state of the art sound and lighting systems was created.