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death of disco theme

posted 19 years ago by dinojrfrk2
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that disco in the mall (lol) how convenient...feels like those scenes are about the death of disco

[–] TonyDood 19 years ago

And, strangely, no one complained...

I can shuffle cut and deal but I can't draw a hand

Discos located-in Shopping Malls were common , in-Those-Days. thankfully , I survived the 1970s!

Ha! Well, if discos were anything like they were in "Thank God It's Friday" then it's too bad we don't have them anymore, that looked like fun! I took a cruise on the actual ship used on "The Love Boat" and there was a disco on it, it looked exactly like the one in "B.S." actually, still, ha ha...

Sometimes it's not enough merely to teach. One has to punish as well.

[–] movieperson113 17 years ago

Jeff Leiberman once mentioned discos weren't common til a little later in the 70's and he was one of the first movies to show a disco club like that.

[–] dwya 16 years ago

Disco craze started in the mid-'70's and was pretty much over by the end of the decade. It seemed to morph into '80's glam and punk.

[–] Levison-1 16 years ago

I might not be the disco king, but I really don't think The Misfits started out in discos located in malls.

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[–] dist_roy 13 years ago

He's not a zombie.

[–] bryggreen 8 years ago

It's a historical fact that Wayne Mulligan was the cause of the death of disco! Throwing a woman across the room like that!

Wayne hates noise and those damn trucks but Wayne hates mall discotechs most of all! Especially as they distract from local politics.