Opened in 1983, the innovative club is still in action, but it now has plenty of competition in its own Capitol Hill neighborhood, as well as in Belltown. When disco waned and electronic beats took over nightclubs across the land, the Emerald City was right on the forefront of that trend with venues like Neighbours, one of the city’s longest standing LGBT and Mixed dance clubs.
As a progressive and culturally open city, Seattle was early to the club culture phenomenon.
