Opened on Valentine’s Day in 1970, next door to the right of Han’s Deli at 647 Broadway in Greenwich Village, was the home of the The Loft, the mother of all dance parties, the originator of what became ‘disco’. Home of a twenty-something antique dealer named David Mancuso who threw weekly house parties with the overthrow accommodated at Studio 54. He had lots of records and lots of friends, so he got a serious sound system and combined them.

Before New York's Buildings Department closed it down in 1975, it was the de facto birthplace of the disco ball. According to Sean: "Here originated the mirrored ball in discos (originally used in 30s dance halls, but the owner saw one on acid in a pawn shop and thought it would be nice to reintroduce), raves, the velvet rope and ‘house’ music."