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| The summer is slowly winding down and Florida's obnoxious humidity is slowly backing off. So what better place to wind down than beautiful Pleasure Island. |
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| One of the Blog's readers commented about the famous Pleasure Island back story plaques being removed. They have been removed....except they forgot this one hidden behind a planter on the Number 2 Bridge! |
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| You can remove the Mannequins name but you can't remove Mannequins heart. Mannequins forever! |
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| With the groovy paint job removed from the doors of 8TRAX, you could peer inside until they installed black paper last week. |
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| Before the paper was installed, you could look through the glass and see 8TRAX circa 2008. |
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| Adventurers Club. It might not say it anymore but everyone knows what this is! |
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| DJ Tony Z (Paradiso 37, Atlantic Dance Hall) and some cute PH girls outside Planet Hollywood earlier this evening. He reports they're drawing really good crowds at Paradiso 37 on Thursday through Saturday nights featuring Top 40 and Club/Dance music. |
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| Daytime view of the Adventure Club (sic) Cart in its new location. There has to be a reason it was moved but the reason is not yet apparent. |
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| Who says there's no dancing on Pleasure Island? |
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| Over on the West Side the new Splitsville is under construction. The signage leaves no doubt that drinking and dancing will be in the mix. This will be a great new addition to Downtown Disney and we hope the willingness to allow "drinking and dancing" is an insight into the new direction Pleasure Island 3.0 is headed! |
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| Television media was out this evening as well covering the big announcement about an Avatar-themed land coming to the Disney Animal Kingdom theme park. Considering its the highest grossing film worldwide ever, Disney has finally responded to Harry Potter. Ain't competition grand!! |
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| Expanding horizons, first visit to Pafos Ultra Lounge located on SR 535 immediately before the intersection with US 192 in Kissimmee, just a few miles south of Lake Buena Vista. |
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| Very cool entry hallway but they could use some of this type of lighting by the dance floor. |
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| Resident DJ Manny covers Wednesday through Saturday nights with the latter kind of an 8TRAX Night with 70's Disco & 80's early MTV hits being played! Double Dutch Bus!! |
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| This PI veteran was spotted celebrating his big 5-0. HBD Mark!! |
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| The club has a large dance floor which I'm told can get crowded. But more people need to know about this place because the music is a lot of fun! |
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| Texts from friends over at The Groove said I needed to come check it out because it was so crowded. Weekend resident DJ King (Motion, BET Soundstage, PI Live, Rock'n'Roll Beach Club) was in the booth overseeing the festivities. |
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| And I think crowded was an understatement! |
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| There were people dancing everywhere! |
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| Including upstairs. It was as crowded as I can recall seeing it and it's not even tourist season! A "half way to St. Patricks Day" party was taking place at adjacent Pat O'Brien's which might help explain why the place was so jammed! People got tanked-up over there and then wanted to dance. DJ King was pumping out a lot of Hip Hop standards but also some intriguing Dance Mash-ups I'd never heard before. And a fun time was had by all! |
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| Thursday night is 80's Night at The Groove featuring DJ King (Motion, BET Soundstage, Rock'n'Roll Beach Club, PI Live). |
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| It was one of those nights when it was by no means crowded but by no means empty either. It was a short night for me so I could not stick around to see if things picked up after midnight. |
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| The music mix was good with both the mandatory 80's classics being played but also a lot of other 80's hits that don't get played enough such as Milli Vanilli (above) plus a bunch of I-Bar style Old Wave songs. |
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| Also dropped by the Red Coconut to see if anything was happening. |
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| Not sure what happened to the pretty little female vocalist he added a few months ago but the Herb Williams Band now has a new one up there! |
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| And a really good crowd dancing to their music! Fun times at CityWalk! |
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| Blog reader Right Guard provides us a picture from happier times when Pleasure Island's mission was clearly defined. He also reports that black felt/paper or whatever that stuff is has reappeared on the doors of Adventurers Club. |
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| Blog roving reporter Thommy provides us this shot of the front of Mannequins where now even "Dance Palace" has been removed. Mannequins Dance Palace is now officially departed. |
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| Meanwhile over at 8TRAX, Blog roving reporter William sends us this pic of improved visibility to the inside of that former club. With the groovy paint job removed from the doors, he says it's very easy to peer inside both the upstairs and downstairs doors now. This is your opportunity to look inside and relive your past! |
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| Beautiful Saturday evening to wander around downtown Orlando. With over 40,000 people attending the UCF home game victory over Boston College in American football, downtown seemed to be a little less crowded than it typically would be. Just a short line to get into personal favorite Bliss Ultra Lounge. |
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| Resident DJ Mickey Bono was pumping out House and Dance as he opened for guest DJ Derrick Anthony from clubs XS and Tryst in Las Vegas. I didn't stick around for Anthony's post-midnight appearance. |
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| To get into the Vegas spirit Bliss was offering black jack and roulette tables! |
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| This isn't a dance club but this new venue at The Plaza had some good Top 40/Dance playing in it. |
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| There is no shortage of sports bars downtown but this one is done really nice and also offers a good assortment of games such as skee-ball, table bowling, darts, etc. |
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| Hadn't been over to The Attic in awhile so needed to check it out again. |
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| It was crazy in there as DJ Bingo Balls (left) was pumping out 100% Top 40 Dance with no Hip Hop, at least during my visit. |
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| It was impossible for me to get a decent picture though of all the people dancing on their long narrow dance floor. The venue is kept dark, wall panels offer up cobalt blue mood lighting and the fog machine kept a permanent haze in the air. Great music. If that's a permanent change, then there is new Dance music competition downtown for Bliss. |
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| Just around the corner past Vain is Suite B Lounge, a venue guaranteed to be offering up an assortment of electronic dance music. |
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| DJ's Adam Bomb and Funkbaby were on the boards during my visit playing Progressive House and Electro to the small but rowdy crowd on hand! |
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| Orlando has a number of awesome female DJ's but this was the first time I've encountered DJ Funkbaby. |
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| Over to The Beacham to see what was going on over there. Saturday night is 102Jamz Night so plenty of Hip Hop on the agenda mixed with some Top 40 Dance. |
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| Resident DJ Richie Rich has owned this night for several years now but he has an EDM heart! And you can hear him put out the House next Sunday night as guest DJ at House of Blues service industry night. |
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| And of course will wrap up the night at Independent Bar (dba Endent Bar)! |
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| DJ Indie John putting out early to mid 80's New Wave/Old Wave classics. |
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| No shortage of patrons in here as the floor stayed consistently jammed. |
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| And a good time was had by all! |
