PI Update: Do You Still Recognize Our Pleasure Island Clubs?

Let's cross this bridge one more time to beautiful Pleasure Island to see where our clubs once stood and to see what's there now .

Immediately after crossing the bridge brings us to West End Plaza and immediately to the left is the spot once occupied by a bathroom complex followed by Hip Hop club BET Soundstage. Both were razed and replaced with this art deco, aviation-themed building home to a pizza joint and another Italian restaurant. 

It is followed on the left by The Edison which is located in a heavily renovated building that once housed the famed Adventurers Club. When you're inside you can definitely see traces of what once was.

After crossing the bridge but looking to your right, Comedy Warehouse was set back there but it was razed as well. New construction is a bit closer to the walkway now and home to steak house STK.

Continuing down the sloping Hill Street, we come to the intersection known as The Hub and this was home on the left to Rock'N'Roll Beach Club. It was completely demolished and replaced with the Pleasure Island water taxi landing, Jock Lindsey's Hanger Bar and an outdoor music venue called the Waterview Stage. Of course RRBC was home to live Rock bands.

The Boathouse restaurant is located in an area that at one time was the "end" of this area of Pleasure Island and was home to Top 40 club Motion. The building was completely demolished. Of course the pathway no longer ends here as the so-called Motion corridor now allows pedestrian traffic to traverse the Island.

Our favorite club was electronic dance music-themed Mannequins Dance Palace and it was located here across from the No. 2 Bridge. Home to one of the world's only revolving dance floors, we always felt the space was too huge to be anything but what it was. Following heavy renovations though, Morimoto Asia has filled the spot and has been a huge success. Mannequins fans can currently go inside and definitely feel like they're in MDP, from the pillars to the light wall to the DJ booth. And it is remains our position that the former revolving floor is still down there beneath the faux-raised floor panels!

The rear of Morimoto runs into what was once 70's/80's club 8TRAX. But the steel look of the building remains including that round section where the circular staircase was the quick secret way to the DJ booth which overlooked the dance floor below. Long live Pleasure Island!