Old Hartford Nightlife/Entertainment

[HuskyHawk]

Just saw this on Facebook.

 

[Jay-Bone]

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JJ, is that you? I spent some time at the Muni late 90's.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Was this a Room 960 event? I missed Tiesto but caught Markus Schulz and a few others in the plaza. Caught Above And Beyond and Gabriel & Dresden as well as many others at Room 960.

What were the names of some of the late night spots mid-late 90's. I was just a kid but remember seeing DJ Keoki.

 

[Jay-Bone]

This got me going down memory lane. As I used to listen to Dresden's Electro Circus in the late 90's, I just looked him up. This blurb got me to Moby's page. I had no idea (or forgot) he was a UConn grad.

 

[Blades]

JJ, is that you? I spent some time at the Muni late 90's.

Good call ....How'd you guess. LOL!

 

[Blades]

This got me going down memory lane. As I used to listen to Dresden's Electro Circus in the late 90's,

Dave the Wave, I did a few guest DJ slots with him on his show. Along with being a Sat night resident on Radio 104 at System, during the Hartford peak nightlife years .

 

[Jay-Bone]

Dave the Wave, I did a few guest DJ slots with him on his show. Along with being a Sat night resident on Radio 104 at System, during the Hartford peak nightlife years .

Those were some rockin times. As an '80 baby, I feel like only caught a taste. Economy was rockin, electronic music was rockin. Progression was on an upswing. Since the last 10 years intolerance and anger have been prevalent instead. Oh well.

 

[Bezzz]

Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

 

[Windham4th]

Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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The chick yard. I avoided the dance floor and just got hammered on the top floor

 

[Deepster]

Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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Sure do, Bez. Very cool spot. Love seeing all the spaces you've done.

 

[Dove]

Dagny's DJ here ... best nights were Thursday Happy Hour w/ Cool Runnings on the patio - 800 people through the door ... ... fun fact, Dagny's lease was $300/month (not a typo)

In some cases, decades later, the past is the present ... e.g.

Charles Christie - is the President of the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz
John McMann - Atlantic Records Ups John McMann and Jon Lewis to Executive VPs of Promotion


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For a DJ, your handle is fantastic!!

And when I see Cool Runnings, I think of the West Indian Social Club.

 

[Dove]

Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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Oh, God, yes. But what was it before The Brickyard?

In the mid-80s, I worked the dining room at the Frank Davis resort in Moodus. Lunch and Dinner. When our dinner shift was over and we got out by 9pm, we changed and zipped up to a multi-floor party spot!!!

 

[Dove]

Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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https://www.courant.com/1995/07/12/three-clubs-in-one-brickyard-adds-to-social-scene/

 

[Blades]

But what was it before The Brickyard?

At one point before the Grants had it , it was LaJarden (spelling ?) and it's sister club down the street was Lorien's (later Coaches) with a couple of owners named Arthur and Boyd.

 

[Blades]

Those were some rockin times. Economy was rockin, electronic music was rockin. Progression was on an upswing.

Yep recent tweet(X), I'm still trying to keep it on the positive....

 

[Flipside]

At one point before the Grants had it , it was LaJarden (spelling ?) and it's sister club down the street was Lorien's (later Coaches) with a couple of owners named Arthur and Boyd.

https://www.courant.com/obituaries/lee-kono-cromwell-ct/

"Starting with the Kono Brothers Restaurant in Hartford in 1962, he proceeded to the Koffee House Restaurant in West Hartford, the Italian Delight Restaurant in South Windsor, Lorien and LeJardin nightclubs in Hartford, and Club 107 in Bristol."

... may Lee & his daughter DJ Kris Kono (Comet, Club Lucy et al) RIP

Konocopia celebrates Hub clubs’ ‘First Lady’

Underground deejays in New England’s house scene will spin together under one roof tonight at Konocopia — a tribute to Boston’s “First Lady of House,” DJ Kris Kono. Kono was a standout in Boston’s …

www.bostonherald.com

 

[Flipside]

For a DJ, your handle is fantastic!!

If talking about Flipside, thank you ... happened by mistake, was living in Morris Plains NJ in '01 and wanted to throw a party for my friends in CT, at Scarlett O'Hara's, and called it Flipside ... somehow the name & visual stuck, and later went on to trademark the logo https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=...TION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

 

[Flipside]

Was this a Room 960 event? ...

Yes - Bora Music, Room 960, Spris and others made those outdoor events happen on Constitution Plaza

 

[Bezzz]

Speaking of Coach's...1994.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Yep recent tweet(X), I'm still trying to keep it on the positive....

If I remember correctly, you were mostly breakbeat? And one of my favorites, Icey, came through Room 960 once. But I could be way off.

 

[Blades]

If I remember correctly, you were mostly breakbeat? And one of my favorites, Icey, came through Room 960 once. But I could be way off.

Sometimes, it was one of my top 2 or 3 genres. Having one of the few vinyl dance record specific stores in New England, it gave me a hook-up to top domestic (Icey from FLA was a leader in breaks ) and import producers, who wanted me to promo their tracks. While also booking a bunch of them for CT or being billed with them at other events . So I never stuck to a specific genre with my DJ mixes. I usually played more for the crowd, event/ dance floor and venue. Which was kind of an outlier with most festival DJ's.....

Good times, but as one wise promoter said to me "you only have so many all-nighters in ya".. LOL!

 

[Blades]

https://www.courant.com/obituaries/lee-kono-cromwell-ct/

"Starting with the Kono Brothers, Lorien and LeJardin nightclubs in Hartford,
... may Lee

Good call DR , couldn't remember the 3rd owner involved.....my sister who was a manager at TGIF and later my food & beverage manager started out in the "biz" at Lorien's as coat check girl at just 16 years old, yikes !

 

[Palatine]

Mad Murphy's was big back in the day.

Across the river was The Rocking Horse, very popular.

 

[husky8273]

Mad Murphy's was big back in the day.

Across the river was The Rocking Horse, very popular.

another look back - https://www.courant.com/1994/12/24/citys-night-life-gets-re-energized/

 

[Flipside]

another look back - https://www.courant.com/1994/12/24/citys-night-life-gets-re-energized/

any free link, to read that article?