Monthly Archives: March 2015

Joy Division USA Tour 1980

March 24, 2015 – 2:22 pm

32 years ago New Wave rockers across America were excitedly anticipating Joy Division’s May 1980. The Manchester band was scheduled to appear at Hurrah in New York for three nights. None of us were expecting to hear the news of the singer’s suicide on the eve of his departure. Ian Curtis was dead. He had […]

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Hurrah Hot Foot

March 24, 2015 – 2:01 pm

Back in the late 70s I was working at Hurrah as security. A good number of the punk disco’s male clientele came from the bridge and tunnel suburbs of New Jersey and Long Island. The gay owner thought that they were cute and these tough boys were easy pickings for the pudgy Texan after these […]

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Hurrah Punk Nightclub

March 24, 2015 – 1:33 pm

Hurrah disco on West 62nd Street died after the opening of Studio 54. The owners experimented with a dance club featuring mainstream rock with video monitors hanging from the ceiling. When this scheme didn’t work, the owners called on Jim Fouratt to animate the ex-dance studio and the impish impresario booked punk and new wave […]

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Twins Separated By A Century

March 21, 2015 – 2:42 pm

This photo of Lewis Powell, a Lincoln assassination conspirator, was taken after his capture on the ironclad USS Saugus, while awaiting trial for his unsuccessful attack of the Secretary of State. The Alabaman doesn’t look guilty in this shot, but he swung by the rope along with the members of John Boothe’s murderous cabal. My […]

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Party Girl Gone

March 21, 2015 – 11:35 am

She ain’t here no more. Only her ghost.

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