Editing Disco (section)

===Nightclubs===
{{See also|Circuit parties}}
[[File:Blue disco quad roller skates.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Blue disco quad [[roller skates]].]]
By the late 1970s, most major US cities had thriving disco club scenes. The largest scenes were most notably in [[New York City]] but also in [[Philadelphia]], [[San Francisco]], [[Miami]], and [[Washington, D.C.]] The scene was centered on [[discotheque]]s, [[nightclub]]s and private [[loft]] parties.

In the 1970s, notable discos included "[[Crisco Disco]]", "The Sanctuary", "Leviticus", "[[Studio 54]]", and "[[Paradise Garage]]" in New York, "Artemis" in Philadelphia, "Studio One" in Los Angeles, "Dugan's Bistro" in Chicago, and "The Library" in Atlanta.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.phillymag.com/property/2016/05/18/once-a-hot-disco-now-a-cool-opportunity/|title=Once a Hot Disco, Now a Cool Opportunity – Philadelphia Magazine|date=May 18, 2016|newspaper=Philadelphia Magazine|access-date=October 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028004100/http://www.phillymag.com/property/2016/05/18/once-a-hot-disco-now-a-cool-opportunity/|archive-date=October 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Disco197510/>

In the late 1970s, Studio 54 in [[Midtown Manhattan]] was arguably the best-known nightclub in the world. This club played a major formative role in the growth of disco music and [[nightclub]] culture in general. It was operated by [[Steve Rubell]] and [[Ian Schrager]] and was notorious for the [[hedonism]] that went on within: the balconies were known for [[sexual encounters]] and drug use was rampant. Its dance floor was decorated with an image of the "[[Man in the Moon]]" that included an animated [[cocaine spoon]].

The "[[Copacabana (nightclub)|Copacabana]]", another New York nightclub dating to the 1940s, had a revival in the late 1970s when it embraced disco; it would become the setting of a [[Barry Manilow]] [[Copacabana (At the Copa)|song of the same name]].

In [[Washington, D.C.]], large disco clubs such as "The Pier" ("Pier 9") and "The Other Side", originally regarded exclusively as "[[gay bar]]s", became particularly popular among the capital area's gay and straight college students in the late '70s.

By 1979 there were 15,000-20,000 disco nightclubs in the US, many of them opening in suburban shopping centers, hotels, and restaurants. The [[2001 Club]] franchises were the most prolific chain of disco clubs in the country.<ref>{{cite book |first=Tim |last=Lawrence |title=Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIdH2yR41bIC&dq=%222001+club%22+billboard+franchise&pg=PA315 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |date=2004 |isbn=0822385112 |page=315 |access-date=February 4, 2022 |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522075950/https://books.google.com/books?id=qIdH2yR41bIC&dq=%222001+club%22+billboard+franchise&pg=PA315#v=onepage&q=%222001%20club%22%20billboard%20franchise&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Although many other attempts were made to franchise disco clubs, 2001 was the only one to successfully do so in this time frame.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Bob Jr. |last=Redinger |title=Franchise Concept More than a Pipe Dream |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=2001+disco+franchise&pg=PT57 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=October 20, 1979 |page=58 |access-date=February 4, 2022 |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522075951/https://books.google.com/books?id=LyQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=2001+disco+franchise&pg=PT57#v=onepage&q=2001%20disco%20franchise&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>