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Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied someone on another table you'
by billyoh 3y ago
Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied someone on another table you'd dial their table phone and strike up a chat. Can't remember the name of the club but it was on Market Street somewhere. Good times!
- Luc 3y agoTuxedo Junction
- comprev 3y agoBasically an exchange trading pit but with music :-)
- daggersandscars 3y agoThe US Max & Erma’s restaurant chain had this in the ‘80s as well.
- mikrl 3y agoNow you have Digital, in the same complex that houses a biotech research lab (the Life Sciences Centre, formerly the Centre for Life)
- gonzo 3y agoThe club in Newcastle was Tuxedo Junction. there was a short-lived clone of same in Las Vegas in the early/mid 1980s as well.
- dredmorbius 3y agoStory on TJ/NoT: <https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/newcastle-tuxedo-junction-nightclub-gimmick-11314287 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-new...>
- jamiek88 3y agoIs that where the tuxedo princess (the revolving dancefloor boat!) name came from?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThis kind of nightclub was the setting for "Dial M For Murder".
- dredmorbius 3y agoWhich in turn inspired Arthur C. Clarke's "Dial F for Frankenstein" short story: <https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2137 https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2137>
- jabl 3y agoWhen I lived in the student dorms at uni, each room had it's own telephone, and the numbers were somewhat consecutive in some kind of order. So drunk students were playing tic-tac-toe in the middle of the night by calling the rooms on the other side of the street trying to get a row/column of lit windows. ;)