Studio 54

„When you walked through those blacked out doors, you were in another world.“ Located on New York’s West Side, "Studio 54" became a legend upon its exuberantly celebrated opening night. Founded by the big-dreaming and equally enterprising friends Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell in April 1977, the club soon became a hot spot for a high society that stood for a new, extensively hedonistic party culture. Getting past the selective bouncers proved to be increasingly difficult for regular mortals – which only fuelled more rumours about the mysterious place. Negative publicity also came sooner rather than later: just 33 months after its opening, the club was stormed by the US tax authority and Schrager and Rubell found themselves behind bars.