{"id":2965,"date":"2009-06-01T14:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2011-02-28T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:34:10","slug":"youtube-video-of-the-early-years-of-disco-in-the-washington-baltimore-area-from-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/06\/01\/2965\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube video of the early years of Disco in the Washington \/ Baltimore area from 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align =\"center\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dpgpgxVU3XA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dpgpgxVU3XA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>This video was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdantoni.blogspot.com\/\">Tom D&#8217;Antoni<\/a> in 1976 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpt.org\/\">Maryland Public Broadcasting<\/a>&#8216;s show &#8220;The Critic&#8217;s Place&#8221; on the Disco phenomenon when it was happening.  It shows some of the nightclubs that existed in Washington, DC and Baltimore during the early years of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disco\">Disco<\/a>.  I really enjoyed how Tom highlighted the social differences that existed between DC and Baltimore 30 years ago and how they, in some ways, still exist today.  I am really curious about where the clubs that were featured in the video were located.  At about 4 minutes in he mentions 20th &#038; L streets and that area is now all office buildings.  I gotta wonder if there are any nightclubs in the locations shown in the video that still exist today?  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A big thanks goes to Dori Hadar, who posted this on Facebook, and is the person we can collectively thank for helping to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mingeringmike.com\/\">Mingering Mike<\/a>.  You can purchase his insightful book about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mingering-Mike-Dori-Hadar\/dp\/156898569X\">Mingering Mike on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Note: while the YouTube video&#8217;s title says &#8220;Disco 1975 (74?),&#8221; upon a thorough reading of the comments posted on YouTube, audiophiles were able to accurately place the video at 1976.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>UPDATE &#8211; 2\/28\/2011<\/b> &#8211; The Sagittarius, shown at the opening and again at around the 2 minute mark, was located inside of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fraser_Mansion\">Fraser Mansion<\/a> and is currently the national affairs office of the Church of Scientology.  -via <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2011\/02\/looking_back_fraser_mansion.php\">DCist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video was created by Tom D&#8217;Antoni in 1976 for Maryland Public Broadcasting&#8216;s show &#8220;The Critic&#8217;s Place&#8221; on the Disco phenomenon when it was happening. It shows some of the nightclubs that existed in Washington, DC and Baltimore during the early years of Disco. I really enjoyed how Tom highlighted the social differences that existed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,302],"tags":[2263,2267,2264,2266,5692,2265,5622,7382],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-youtube","tag-disco","tag-dori-hadar","tag-maryland-public-broadcasting","tag-mingering-mike","tag-music","tag-tom-dantoni","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":231,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}