Studio 54 New York virtual walk-around 

Great Job!!! I was the In-House Design Director for the club from 1982-1983 and was responsible for the look of the club, events, and private parties.

The Logistics are pretty close...Good job! I performed on the Catwalk there. My dressing room was in the dungeon. Also, the Man in the Moon Light Fixture speckled dots into his nose when the music started really pumping. When you got to the 2nd level with the cylinder couches, then people would go up to the next level and hang in the theatre seats. It will always be my life's paaaar-tee!

I went almost every night from 1978-1981 and this is incredible ..good job!

JUST ONE..ONE NIGHT AT STUDIO 54 BACK WHEN IT ALL BEGAN!!!

All my life I wondered about studio 54...now this is true-2life. Thanks best in 2021😳😳😳😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

WISH IT WAS STILL HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'D DEFINITELY, BE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND REST IN PEACE, TO ALL OF THOSE, THAT HELPED CREATE, THIS ADULT, WONDERLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is amazing, now the kids can see how well the clubs were done back then! Thank you for your efforts!

this is great. when I travelled to NY from Australia the door guy at studio 54 let me and my friend in to have a look around. it was a dream come true for me. total fantasy.

Can you imagine something like this today just partying no worries having the time of your life and look at today my goodness the contrast is terrifying and saddening

I wish I could have been there, at least once in my life

This was great! Thanks a lot for the virtual tour. I am a big fan of disco music and I have been fascinated for years by this legendary nightclub and seen documentaries and clips about it. This is the first video that shows the interior of the club. So thank you for your great job!

It must have been a nightmare getting a drink with only one modest size bar, or maybe there were many bar staff. I was in New York on holiday from the UK and struck a conversation with a woman in her sixties who told me of her clubbing days at 54 could tell even tho she was in her 60s now she still had that vibe I was so engrossed in our conversation was one of the most interesting 2 hours I've ever spent in great company. Stella said to me if I'm ever in New York again, we should meet up. This was five years ago, well I intend to visit New York this year, and I hope I do meet Stella again.

Very cool felt like I stepped back in time and was aloud in lol.

Yeah great Video you made, i just found it right now. I was lucky (and old enough) to be allowed entering the Studio in 1977 during a brithday trip from Germany to NYC. It's was just so amazing, something totally new, exhausting, totally free and nobody thought what's up tomorrow (sadly for some health). One of the greatest place i'd ever been and an experience never to be forgotten during my life

Questo è il luogo simbolo per tutti gli amanti della musica da ballo! 😍

Love the tweeters hanging over the floor

I enjoyed this, thanks for sharing and great job. I often tried to visualize it with different photos. I have always been fascinated with this legendary club. That's back when a club experience really was a club experience. We're living in shit times now.

What a time to be alive!!!

Hello, great...😍😍😍 Thanks for everybody knows studio 54 new York. Next level if you accept: studio 54 Barcelona!. I can help you to define the the discotheque because i go in my young years. Excuse my English i live in France. Thanks again. Jordi.

I got to this video by accident. Glad I did. You did a fab job. Bravo!!

Steve, "The Bar is Open" ! Miss Those Great Memories !

WOW! I wanted to have an idea what the Studio 54 was like! Amazing recreation. But you didn´t go upstairs, I mean, the balcony.

Awesome... Must do one of Palladium, Xenons, and Funhouse

*You did a great job for not going there. You made the first left to the coat check, there was an all black rubber VIP room upstairs and the neon moon - coke spoon sign is missing from the dance floor wall. If you were really cool you could enter from the back alley and spend your time in the basement / storage rooms doing party favors.*

Left out the moon and spoon and the VIP basement, otherwise good job, brought back many memories

I was hoping we’d get to go up the stairs.

Disco and Studio 54 happened when the stars aligned. That was a magical, special time.

You can never imitate originality but I think if you got either wealthy superclub owner (ie Pacha family) or some rich enthusiast who loved that Studio 54 vibe and the music, this could be relaunched to a certain degree. I mean there are enough people around the world who love the music and would love to experience the whole vibe and would def go there. Just need someone rich enough with the imagination and connections to pull it off .The world is def waiting and needing in the present day a Disco superclub laike 54, it would be so ram packed!

FANTASTIC. Thanks

Fantastic! Goosebumps! Seems like yday. However, you forgot the Moon & the Spoon !

I was born in the 90’s but wish I could have gone here just one night

Shine Bright Always

Hmmm...... So that's what it was like to be in club 54. Very interesting.

Brings back memories galore !!!!

This is splendid . Always wondered what 54 looked like inside and the layout. Time for me to hit the DANCE FLOOR......

Upstairs was where the real party was 🙌🏼

wow this is great I love it

this is so cool! I wasn't around for the Studio 54 days, but spent plenty of time there when it was a rock club called The Ritz in the early 90s and saw many amazing bands there. This really brings back memories!

As a lighting Designer…running the lights every night for studio would have been a dream come true. I was born in the wrong decade…would have loved to been able to go try my luck to get inside:)

Fette House party da drin machen. 😎🎊🎉

Man, it must have been fun in those days. Our generation didn’t have any fun, we had 9/11 and social media. Garbage times.

AWESOMENESS!!!

Nicely done. Only thing missing were the huge Richard Long speakers.

Amazing work! And ... much as I remember it. If you stood in front of the *huge* bass "bins" at the sides of the dance floor, when the woofers "snapped" back to their resting positions before the next push "out" for the bass, they literally sucked the air out of your lungs. Not completely of course, but enough that you felt the effects; I had to move away from them, the bass being that powerful. hahahaha! What isn't obvious, but is there in your CGI work, is the "moving" catwalk - usually stationary in front of the animated-neon-"fan" at the back of the stage, that could move over the dance floor. The light "trees" and the JBL bullet tweeters were all flown in and out manually. The poor guy with his dual ear "muffs" and microphone-production headset was a very busy guy at the rigging/ropes. I *loved* watching the DJ and lighting tech up in the overhead "pod" suspended (pole supported) to your left as you come into the club. Again, thank you very much for this; I admire your work "abrmedia". You're talented!

Very cool layout, very glamorous!

Where is that legendary moon with a spoon? And I see on old photos that this fan neon was at the same level as dancefloor

Thanks 👍

I really appreciate you making that. I always wanted to know what people saw when they got luck enough to go thru the black smokey doors. Thank you very much! Feel like I've been there !!

The 1970s puts the 2000s to shame as for the nightclubs in every aspect.. Shame Shame Shame..

Oh i love it 😍

Cool

Thank you for the wonderful video. Similarly, I would like to ask you in detail about the Paradise Garage of the same era. Thanking you in advance.

That is pretty good

STELLAR ❤️ 👏

I want to THANK YOU for doing this virtual walkaround, terrific work!

Very nice! Well done! The main thing I noticed is when it first opened it had the gold tiered bar and matching gold dj booth off to the left which stuck out onto the dance floor. They changed both later on to the red thing which I never liked but I wasn't there for the bar.I liked OK I loved the black n gold motif when it first opened the best.

Awesome!

Nicely done re-creation of this iconic dance club... Now it's time to create a virtual tour of "The SAINT" (another iconic NYC club circa 1980 to "88") and there's plenty of blueprints available to work with!

Great work!

Where is Steve r ? ;) Good job

GOOSEBUMPS 👈🏽❤

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If i squint, I can see Liza, Bianca and Andy.

To match my memory you have to add a 60% smoke layer. Thanks.

Great job! Shame you didn't take us upstairs for a view of the club from there. Love the neon fan effect, but where's the iconic Spoon Moon? *** SNORT ***

Just bet the club was packed every night!

I want to have my 54th Birthday there, I am willing to pay whatever fee. 😂

Love it! Now I need to get my virtual Saturday Night outfil and I'll be ready to disco!

lovely!!

I hung out at Studio in the Spring & Summer of 1983. While it was well past the glory days, it was still an amazing experience. Your virtual walk though is pretty close. As I remember it, the dance floor had several false backs. As the crowd increased in size, another false back would be raised and the dance floor expanded.

All I hear in my mind is Charlie Murphy what did five finger say to the face? Slap! :D

Please create a virtual tour of Warsaw Ballroom in Miami Beach, Fla. 1980s - 1990s

Hi, I've been working on creating a virtual disco to play over some classic disco hits mixed I'm also working on, I've borrowed some ideas from Studio 54 lighting effects... still a long way to go but the more I looked for details on 54 the more interested I became in its history, utterly fascinating story, should be made into a film, for starters it would have the best soundtrack of any film ever made......

Bet it was very crowded there wall to wall people.

This great!

el audio de fondo está de pok, me encantó!!!

Great! ..it could be great too have many other Legendary Clubs as Paradise Garage, Gallery, Loft, Saint... or Northern Soul too as Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca, Golden Torch..

Wow!!... Thank You so much for putting this together.. This was before my time and I always wondered what the floor plan looked like... But if I can offer one little bit of constructive criticism... Your missing a very very iconic symbol that was Center stage at 54.... You have to include it!!!... You just have to.

Been There.

Lovely, please do one for The Saint NYC.

Did you see the new documentary about Studio 54 on Amazon?

What about upstairs ?

I Seriously Would Have Gone, And I Would Have Gotten In. MY Family And I Are Real Dancers. We Would Have Had That Whole Club, Following Our Lead. Celebrities, INCLUDED. WE HAD IT GOING ON LIKE THAT.

Dear Mr. Lees, when Sirius/XM launched their Studio 54 Radio Channel, they did a one night only, reopen/reunion to promote it. I thought I remember it being said the sound system (courtesy of Richard Long, RIP) was never removed from the space, same with some of the lighting. Do you know if that's accurate as of these days? I know the Roundabout Theater company now occupies the space. Thank you!

i remember several SEXUAL ecounters on the rafters as well as in several bathroom stalls , the VIP section and on the balcony (that was when i was a young fresh faced 18yr old) ... BRING BACK THIS TIME IN NYC (nowadays the city is boring and soo watered down and Disneyfied)

Stayin alive

😍😍😍

Where is the moon 🌙 and the coke spoon 🥄!????

Please make one for the Paradise Garage. ♥️

Nice! What software do you work in?

Couple of observations. It's smaller than I thought it would be. I don't see really any seating or tables or ledges on the main floor. Did everyone just stand and hold their drinks? Where were the ashtrays? There was only one small bar in the whole club? All the drinks for the entire club were made from that one bar?

That is amazing, thank you. I never got there when it was the disco, only for shows with Round-a-bout Theater Company. This gives a good idea and feel about how it was as a dance club. I am not sure, though, how did they incorporate the stage area? Could people dance on the stage, or was that only for shows and stuff?

shame they didnt go upstairs

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I missed the coke snorting halfmoon 😂

Wasn't there a stage set up for performances? And ware was Mr. MooN?? I WOULD OF LOVVVEED TO BE IN THAT GENERATION OF FUN. "IF YOU CAN READ MY MIND"

i love the sound! what music is playing? great animation btw! the positioning of the JBLs and RLAs are spot on

Mega - als nächstes bitte das Berghain. :D

What is the glitter continuous?

Honestly surprised how small it seems it was with this view