[dirtboy]

I guess folks will no longer experience the world's second nastiest club bathrooms (after the old Empire club in Philly). You needed waders to go and take a leak. Lord knows what the ladies had to resort to

[michaelt]

Where was the Empire Club?

[weegee]

That's nothing, I've been to a bar that had free standing cinderblocks so you could walk to the urinals in the men's room.

[RepoGirl]

CBGB and the other mythic punk clubs were only the stuff of legend to this punk girl -- born ten years too late and growing up a thousand miles away, literally.

The only 'big city' club I ever got to was the Cameo Theater down in Miami, mid 1980s. The ladies rooms had broken windows that looked out over Collins ave (way before South beach became hip), two inches of standing "water" on the floor and the toilets hadn't been flushed in ten years. Pretty horrific, but the memories remain.

Saw the Damned, Stray Cats, Ramones and The Clash back then--but most of the great bands didn't venture that far south back then.

I did manage to make it to some of the clubs in London when I was a student -- not the same, of course.