{"id":22949,"date":"2013-10-20T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=22949"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:54:08","slug":"the-iconic-new-york-nightclub-area-1983-1987-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=22949","title":{"rendered":"The Iconic New York Nightclub&#8230;Area: 1983-1987 Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=22950\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22950\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22950\" alt=\"area\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/area.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fabled New York nightclub Area opened its doors in September 1983 and virtually overnight became the nexus of one of the most vibrant downtown art and club scenes in New York. Despite its short-lived history (it closed in 1987), Area was\u00a0<i>the\u00a0<\/i>place where A-listers from disparate worlds went to see and be seen.<br \/>\nArea was the brainchild of four guys from California, among them author Eric Goode, whose vision was to create an art project on a monumental scale: Every six weeks, they gutted the enormous space at 157 Hudson and transformed it with a different art theme. Their wildly creative invitations to the opening night of each new installation became the hottest tickets in town, coveted by writers and photographers who together chronicled the club\u2019s legendary scene. Drawing from an incredibly rich archive of material, Eric and Jennifer Goode tell the behind-the-scenes story of the club and its people, creating an illustrated memoir of an exciting time and place in the annals of New York nightlife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=22951\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22951\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22951\" alt=\"area1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/area1.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=22952\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22952\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22952\" alt=\"area2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/area2.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Available November 12&#8230;Pre-Order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Area-1983-1987-Eric-Goode\/dp\/081097276X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381940597&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=area&amp;tag=viglink125212-20\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe fabled New York nightclub Area opened its doors in September 1983 and virtually overnight became the nexus of one of the most vibrant downtown art and club scenes in New York. Despite its short-lived history (it closed in 1987), Area was\u00a0the\u00a0place where A-listers from disparate worlds went to see and be seen.<br \/>\nArea was the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[3412,681,3413,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22977,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22949\/revisions\/22977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}