Firestone Sadness Update

By now you know about the conversion of The Club at Firestone/Firestone Live (or most recently Venue 578) into an event/club space to be called Vanguard Entertainment Complex. This past July we reported on progress coming to a complete halt allegedly due to a piece of construction equipment striking a support pole, followed by the necessary damage assessments. Article link.

Back in the 1930's, this was literally a Firestone tire dealership with a Texaco gas station and this was the front office.

Some construction work was in progress during my visit but it's been a year since demolition of the interior began and it still has a long way to go. This view is from the side garage door along Concord Street. The stage where so many big name DJ's performed would have been to the near right; the lighting tech booth to the upper rear.

The club's "green room" was to the upper right.

Looking more to the left, DJ's would often play in Firestone's former front office, often called "The Den". Stairs led to an upstairs glassed-in area called "The Loft" which wrapped around to that upper area to the rear. On big nights, another DJ could be found playing over there.

This vantage is from the Orange Avenue side of the club, looking in from beneath "The Loft". Trench work has taken place but not much else beyond the demolition work early this year.

Firestone sadness.