Club 21

located at 117 1/2 Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North, Club 21 was Birmingham busiest bar in the late 1980's and early 1990's with its regular Thursday Night line-up with a live DJ spinning for Birmingham's premier Goth crowd, now considered (club kids or Emo). At this time, in this mixed bar (Straight, gay, Bi) it was customary to dress up for this weekly event. The grand ballroom with it's elevated dance floor would be filled with revelers wearing much black, heavy necklaces, mostly crosses and heavily jeweled Crucifixes, Doc Marten's (combat boots), black tights and vestiges like capes and tulle. Black lipstick was de rigueur for girls and most guys too. For a few hours each week the "Goths" belonged to something. The misfits and disenfranchised of Birmingham finally found a place. "Memory Lane," the clothing store in Five Points South owned and operated by Fancher Lane specialized in the clothing and jewelry where much of this "Goth" merchandise was available to the public. The scene really took off once "Goth" music was played more on the area's mainstream radio stations. Obcessions with all things "Vampire," "Anne Rice," "Cure," "Joy Division," "Biggod 20," "Sisters of Mercy, "Skinny Puppy," ""Kate Bush" and "Bauhaus" to name a few were some of the influences of this "Goth" movement.