Plato S Retreat
Plato’s Retreat was a club in New York of the 1970’s and 80’s and is credited as being America’s first swingers club. It was to be found at the Ansonia Hotel (at the corner of West seventy third and Broadway). For a brief period it was one of the most famous clubs in the world, frequented by the wealthy and famous. The club saw performances from Bette Midler and Barry Manilow and saw celebrities such as Richard Dreyfus, Madonna, Ron Jeremy and John Wayne visit.
Plato’s Retreat became popular and was recognised as the first “on-premise” swinging clubs on the East Coast. It’s success was based on the fact that it took what people were doing and their own homes and moved it to the commercial arena. the commercial version of what was happening in people’s apartments and living rooms across the country. hit called just Plato’s Retreat, where he was vocally backed up by Jocelyn Brown, Diva Grey and Gwen Guthrie.
The club was shut down by the major of New York in 1985. Plato’s Retreat was renamed Plato’s Retreat 2 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where it stayed until 2006.
Plato’s Retreat inspired many songs. Most famously, Joe Thomas’s Plato’s Retreat (with added vocals from Jocelyn Brown, Diva Grey and Gwen Guthrie) and Caroline Palmer’s book of the same name. It also inspired the name of the club set up many years later Plato’s Repeat.
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