Paradise Garage

CTL-E-5296 · Venue · club · 1970s–1980s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Paradise Garage was a members-only New York dance club at 84 King Street, opened in 1977-78, with Larry Levan as resident DJ and a custom Richard Long sound system widely regarded as the era's reference standard. Its crowd, like the Warehouse's, was primarily Black and Latino and largely gay, and its all-night, alcohol-free, music-centered model parallels the Warehouse's in design. In this brief it serves as the comparison room: the same designer and a sister DJ lineage produced garage music in New York, which isolates what Chicago's room and crowd added to produce house instead.

Referenced by

• Larry Levan — played → this record

Sources

• City of Chicago, Landmark Designation Report for The Warehouse (2023) (Long/Garage association); residency detail from specialist secondary literature
• CultureTechLens research brief CTL-RB-MUS-000006, "The Warehouse: Anatomy of a Dancefloor" (2026-10-15)

Record CTL-E-5296 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: BMI-002, MUSIC-001.
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