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'''Franco's All-Nite Affair''' was an after-hours bottle club located at 5904 N 9th Avenue, at Douglas Avenue. The club was owned by Frank Masiarczyk, and first managed by David Spivey. It was frequented mostly by customers of Franco's Lounge, also musicians and local off-work bar employees. It's most popular entertainment was local rock bands Backstage, Flame and The Heaters, Cool Babies, and Jon Allmightey and The X-Statics. A few of it's better-known personnel fixtures were disc jockey Nick Zangari, also shock-rocker Mike Danger and balladeer Geoffrey Hall, who were both employed there as doormen, fill-in musicians, and disc jockeys.  
 
'''Franco's All-Nite Affair''' was an after-hours bottle club located at 5904 N 9th Avenue, at Douglas Avenue. The club was owned by Frank Masiarczyk, and first managed by David Spivey. It was frequented mostly by customers of Franco's Lounge, also musicians and local off-work bar employees. It's most popular entertainment was local rock bands Backstage, Flame and The Heaters, Cool Babies, and Jon Allmightey and The X-Statics. A few of it's better-known personnel fixtures were disc jockey Nick Zangari, also shock-rocker Mike Danger and balladeer Geoffrey Hall, who were both employed there as doormen, fill-in musicians, and disc jockeys.  
  
After more than five years in business, it closed in early 1985.
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After close to five years in business, it closed in February 1985.

Latest revision as of 10:40, 23 February 2020

Franco's All-Nite Affair was an after-hours bottle club located at 5904 N 9th Avenue, at Douglas Avenue. The club was owned by Frank Masiarczyk, and first managed by David Spivey. It was frequented mostly by customers of Franco's Lounge, also musicians and local off-work bar employees. It's most popular entertainment was local rock bands Backstage, Flame and The Heaters, Cool Babies, and Jon Allmightey and The X-Statics. A few of it's better-known personnel fixtures were disc jockey Nick Zangari, also shock-rocker Mike Danger and balladeer Geoffrey Hall, who were both employed there as doormen, fill-in musicians, and disc jockeys.

After close to five years in business, it closed in February 1985.