Remember Tiffany's in the Windsor Park Hotel? The Sault's first discotheque featured a large dance floor with lights underneath
Fads come and go, but some trends are so ubiquitous they can almost define a generation. When we think of the 1950s, images of classic cars, jukeboxes, and rock and roll come to mind. The 1960s brought us the Beatles, then hippies and Woodstock. The 1970s brought us disco.
The creation of the club was entrusted to a company called Juliana’s which was well known for establishing the top dance clubs in the world. The first DJ was Christel Mesnard who was born in France. Before coming to the Sault she had just finished establishing the first disco in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. The cultural and temperature differences must have been quite a shock when she arrived, but her expertise helped propel Tiffany’s success.
The Sault Star reported in a review of the movie in December 1977 that those who frequented discos might be offended by how they were characterized in the film – “Saturday Night Fever advises us that people who go to discotheques don’t just go there for innocent fun and company. They go there to pick up or be picked up, get high on drugs and alcohol, practice their foul language vocabulary, and generally be as uncompassionate as possible to those around them.
The disco didn’t just attract people with music. It was also the opportunity to see and be seen. Fashion was a huge part of the disco craze.
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