In 1930s Shanghai, the big clubs were The Paramount Club (opened in 1933) and Ciro's (opened in 1936). These venues were aimed at rich and poor people, gays, lesbians, nudists, and gangsters alike. Hundreds of venues in the city, which at the time had a sinful reputation, offered in addition to bars, stages, and dance floors an erotic nightlife, such as small booths where lovers could withdraw to for intimate moments. In the 1920s, the nightlife of the city was dominated by party drugs such as cocaine. In Berlin, where a " tango fever" had already swept dancing establishments in the early 1910s, 899 venues with a dancing licence were registered by 1930, including the Moka Efti, Casanova, Scala, DELPHI-Palast, Kakadu, Femina-Palast, Palais am Zoo, Gourmenia-Palast, Uhlandeck, and the Haus Vaterland. In Germany during the Golden Twenties, there was a need to dance away the memories of the First World War. In this era, nightclubbing was generally the preserve of those with money. Meyrick ran several London nightclubs in the 1920s and early 1930s, during which time she served prison sentences for breaching licensing laws and bribing a police officer. The 43 Club on Gerrard Street was run by Kate Meyrick the 'Night Club Queen'. Nightclubs were tied very much to the idea of " high society", via famous organisations such as the Kit Kat Club (which took its name from the political Kit-Cat Club in Pall Mall, London) and the Café de Paris. Pre- World War II Soho in London offered café society, cabaret, burlesque jazz, and bohemian clubs similar to those in New York, Paris, and Berlin. The "Kakadu" (1919–1937), one of Berlin's best-known dance- and nightclubs since the early 1920s, offered a bar, a dance floor, live music played by jazz band, and cabaret. With the repeal of Prohibition in February 1933, nightclubs were revived, such as New York's 21 Club, Copacabana, El Morocco, and the Stork Club. Webster Hall stayed open, with rumors circulating of Al Capone's involvement and police bribery.įrom about 1900 to 1920, working class Americans would gather at honky tonks or juke joints to dance to music played on a piano or a jukebox. The advent of the jukebox fueled the Prohibition-era boom in underground illegal speakeasy bars, which needed music but could not afford a live band and needed precious space for paying customers. The first jukebox was installed in the Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco on 23 November 1889, becoming an overnight sensation. Arnold, who were both managers of the Pacific Phonograph Co. The jukebox (a coin-operated record-player) was invented in 1889 by Louis Glass and his partner William S. Webster Hall is credited as the first modern nightclub, being built in 1886 and starting off as a "social hall", originally functioning as a home for dance and political activism events. It catered to a downscale clientele and besides the usual illegal liquor, gambling, and prostitution, it featured nightly fistfights, and occasional shootings, stabbings, and police raids. By contrast, Owney Geoghegan ran the toughest nightclub in New York, 1880–83.
Timothy Gilfoyle called them "the first nightclubs". Prices were high and they were patronized by an upscale audience. Practically all gambling was illegal in the city (except upscale horseracing tracks), and regular payoffs to political and police leadership was necessary. They tolerated unlicensed liquor, commercial sex, and gambling cards, chiefly Faro. They enjoyed a national reputation for live music, dance, and vaudeville acts. The first nightclubs appeared in New York City in the 1840s and 1850s, including McGlory's and the Haymarket. Prostitutes served a wide variety of clientele, from sailors on leave to playboys. Edwin Booth and Lillian Russell were among the Broadway stars. New York's theater district gradually moved northward during this half century, from The Bowery up Broadway through Union Square and Madison Square, settling around Times Square at the end of the 19th century.
Grand hotels were built for the upscale visitors. In the United States, New York increasingly became the national capital for tourism and entertainment. "The Cave" in the basement of the Gruenwald (later Roosevelt) Hotel, New Orleans opened in 1912 said by some to be one of the first nightclubs in the United States
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