"My childhood basement didn’t look like a bar, but it was pretty grungy."
Hustle into the new Good Night John Boy in Delray Beach and find a discotheque fever dream in harvest gold and avocado green.
This throwback boogie wonderland, set to open May 15 inside the former Delray Beach Market near Atlantic Avenue, is awash in ’70s colors and pre-Reagan Era relics. Behold corded rotary telephones and wood-paneled walls, Miller High Life “dad beers” and roller skates, Farrah Fawcett’s red-swimsuit poster and disco balls gleaming in every color above the dance floor.
The nostalgia-steeped nightclub may resemble a time machine to anyone under 40, but co-owner Michael Schwartz says the clientele trends super-young and dance-happy, longing for “Funkytown” and “Disco Inferno” and chic cocktails served with plenty of tongue-in-cheek.
And Schwartz would know. The entire space — OK, except for the dance floor — is a recreation of his childhood basement in Cleveland, Ohio, he says.
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