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'''Club 21''', located in the [[Florentine Building]] at 117 1/2 [[Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North]], was a "Goth" ''bar in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It featured a regular Thursday Night line-up with a live DJ, [[John Kelley]]. In this mixed bar (Straight, gay, Bi) it was encouraged to dress up for this weekly event. The ornate, grand ballroom with its elevated dance floor would be filled with revelers wearing "gothic" clothing.  [[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 subculture"'' merchandise was available to the public.
'''Club 21''' was a bar in the late 1980s and early 1990s located in the [[Florentine Building]] at 117 1/2 [[Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North]]. It featured a regular Thursday Night line-up with a live DJ, [[John Kelley]]. It featured an ornate, grand ballroom with elevated dance floor.


Paul Hodkinson's book, ''"Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture,"'' explores how the Western cult of individualism, usually expressed via consumerism, is drawn on by goths and other subcultural groups.
==References==


''"Goth subculture"'' is self-conscious artificiality of a subculture and is a valid alternative choice in a post-modern world. 
==References==
[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_subculture "Goth subculture"]


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Revision as of 21:04, 19 January 2012

Club 21 was a bar in the late 1980s and early 1990s located in the Florentine Building at 117 1/2 Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North. It featured a regular Thursday Night line-up with a live DJ, John Kelley. It featured an ornate, grand ballroom with elevated dance floor.

References