{"product_id":"larrys-garage-tee","title":"Larry's Garage Tee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORDERS OPEN: 6\/18\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORDERS CLOSE: 6\/22\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTO PRINT: 6\/23\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRINTED ON LAA GD1801 SPECTRA YELLOW TEES.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALL ITEMS TAKE BETWEEN 3-4 WEEKS TO PRODUCE AFTER THE ORDER PERIOD ENDS. You will always receive your item unless otherwise contacted. All items are final sale. We are not responsible for lost, stolen, or misplaced packages. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"0\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eThe Paradise \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"13\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eGarage didn't \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"27\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003elook like much \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"42\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003efrom the outside. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"60\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eYou walked in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"74\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003ethrough a garage door on King \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"104\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eStreet in SoHo, climbed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"128\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003ea long ramp, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"145\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003earrived somewhere that felt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"173\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003egenuinely unlike anywhere \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"199\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eelse in New York — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"218\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003ewhich, in 1977, was saying something. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"256\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eProprietor Michael Brody had taken over \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"296\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003ea disused parking garage in downtown \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"333\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003eManhattan with the intention of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"365\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003ebuilding a disco on a scale the city \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"402\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003ehadn't yet seen, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"419\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003e and what he built was less a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"530\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003enightclub than a total environment: a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"568\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003esprung wooden dance floor, a rooftop \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"605\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003egarden, free food and coffee, a movie \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"643\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003etheater, all of it designed around a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"680\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003esingle premise: that the music came \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"717\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003efirst and everything else \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"743\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003efollowed from there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"743\" class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/Larry-Levan-3.jpg?v=1781495264\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Garage was membership-only, but it didn't discriminate based on race, class, or sexual identity — a distinction that sounds modest on paper and was radical in practice. Its crowd was primarily gay, Black, and Hispanic, communities that most of New York nightlife either ignored or actively shut out. This was the late '70s and early '80s, the AIDS crisis was beginning to hollow out entire communities, and the Garage became something closer to a sanctuary than a club. People weren't just going out. They were going somewhere that held them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/Levan-with-Grace-Jones.jpg?v=1781495285\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLarry Levan was the reason. He developed a style that emphasized dramatic tension and euphoric collective release built through eclectic record selection and total command of a sound system that was considered the best in New York. He had the security of a loyal owner and a crowd willing to follow him anywhere, which meant he could take risks no other DJ of his era realistically could. He wasn't programming a room; he was conducting it. Sets ran for hours, emotional arcs built and collapsed and rebuilt, and the people on that sprung dance floor felt every bit of it through the floor beneath their feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/LLBBFront1.jpg?v=1781495304\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHis mixing evolved from disco into what would become house music, and the influence moved outward from King Street in every direction into clubs in Chicago and London, into producers and DJs who were there and absorbed everything, into a genre that still carries his fingerprints. The Garage closed in 1987, and Levan died five years later at 38. When the city eventually renamed that block of King Street in his honor, 22,000 people came out for it. For a club that never advertised, never courted press, and kept its doors deliberately hard to walk through, that's the whole story right there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enter the Night Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":43569516019918,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":43569516052686,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large","offer_id":43569516085454,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":43569516118222,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":43569516150990,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":43569516183758,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/LARRYFRONT.png?v=1781494246","url":"https:\/\/enterthenightgallery.com\/products\/larrys-garage-tee","provider":"Night Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}