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Old 12-29-2007, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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This is what the space where our beloved Starck Club was, has been turned into.

http://www.metro5dallas.com/aboutus.php

Look at the photo page...can we say HOOCHIE MAMAS?
I feel so old.
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Old 12-29-2007, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Oh wow, none of us SMUers would have gone there looking that way. Blazers, turned up collars and glitz all the way.Wow. I so miss the 80-90's when you DRESSED to go out, not just put on you carwashing clothings and a baseball cap.
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Old 12-29-2007, 03:14 PM
 
Location: DFW Texas
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Wow. I so miss the 80-90's when you DRESSED to go out, not just put on you carwashing clothings and a baseball cap.
If you checked out their website you can see photos of the interior and actual decor of the club is what we old Starckies would say "Starck Fabulous" The clientele is a different story, now these kids either wanna look like one, or a combo of three things....
1.) Ghetto Hood Rat
2.) White Trash
3.) Bimbo

Thank god the owners of "Metro 5", didnt slap the Starck name to it. It would have been a total mockery of the name and the building it houses.
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Old 11-20-2008, 11:03 AM
 
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Since we were talking about The Starck on another thread:

Starck Club founder Blake Woodall shares his guide to daytime Dallas | GuideLive.com | Arts/Entertainment News and Events | Dallas-Fort Worth | The Dallas Morning News | Arts & Entertainment
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Old 11-20-2008, 09:55 PM
 
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JVTX thanks for those sites - I am now listening to the podcast: STARCK REVISITED with DJ Ronnie Bruno

The STARCK was the spellbinding synthesis of Dallas' greatest boom, the 80s and its wonderful music and the international cache brought by Phillipe (and let's not forget Stevie and Grace).

There will never be another!
Never got to go....but experienced it none the less through a little club called Confetti's in OKC. It was very influence by Starck...Good times!
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Old 11-20-2008, 10:04 PM
 
Location: DFW Texas
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I had heard Blake Woodall is a totally different person now. I guess owning the most decadent nightclub after Studio 54 would have that affect on someone.
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Old 11-21-2008, 11:29 AM
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Wow..I'm feeling old now...my group of friends partied at the Starck plenty of times back in the mid to late 80s. We always managed to get in without waiting...we were so full of ourselves back then that we had no fear..LOL I still have a New Years Eve T-shirt from Starck folded away and saved for posterity...LOL

I remember all those white couches and flowing curtains and all the debauchery that went on behind them...and of course the unisex bathrooms where folks would party on the couches in there while your friends waited in line for a stall along with both guys and girls...Val, the black transsexual selling cigarettes (cloves, etc)
as she walked around the club...

Dancing on the lower stairs and hanging on to the wall and railings for dear life.....the free flowing Exstasy when it was legal and when it wasn't...the time period when the club was in trouble with the city and there was "No Dancing" and if you were caught even swaying to the music, you were booted out...ahhh, good times...LOL
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Old 11-21-2008, 11:44 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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I'm too young (only 29) to remember Starck back in its hey day, but I did get to X-perience the place when it was called club Area 51 (1999-2002) those were the peak years of Trance aka "Rave music" & Ecstacy use ran wild in there. Vicks vapor rub & glow sticks waving around to endless repetitive beats were standard perifinelia.

It was like a rebirth of Starck in a different kind of way if that makes any sense. The door guys at Area 51 were also VERY picky about who they let in the club for fear of undercover NARC's.
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Old 11-22-2008, 07:07 PM
 
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Wow..I'm feeling old now...my group of friends partied at the Starck plenty of times back in the mid to late 80s. We always managed to get in without waiting...we were so full of ourselves back then that we had no fear..LOL I still have a New Years Eve T-shirt from Starck folded away and saved for posterity...LOL

I remember all those white couches and flowing curtains and all the debauchery that went on behind them...and of course the unisex bathrooms where folks would party on the couches in there while your friends waited in line for a stall along with both guys and girls...Val, the black transsexual selling cigarettes (cloves, etc)
as she walked around the club...

Dancing on the lower stairs and hanging on to the wall and railings for dear life.....the free flowing Exstasy when it was legal and when it wasn't...the time period when the club was in trouble with the city and there was "No Dancing" and if you were caught even swaying to the music, you were booted out...ahhh, good times...LOL

First time I went to the Starck club is a experience I will never forget. Me and a friend of mines meet some girls who took us to the club. I had a blast and dated that girl for a couple of years. I loved the Starck Club.
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Old 11-23-2008, 12:49 AM
 
Location: DFW Texas
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Wasnt there a song produced about the STARCK? I think it was on some underground/indie label. I cant remember the name of it, but I think it had something to do with the raid and all the decadence.
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