For those who came of age in the 1970s, to listen to this music is to hear the soundtrack of their young lives, and recall a time when watching Travolta dance stirred their youthful enthusiasm.
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"Everyone wanted to be John Travolta and the girls wanted to be on his arm," said Beverly Fish, a disco enthusiast.
It's all about bringing memories back to Bay Ridge.
"I remember it being exciting, like in my head I picture almost fireworks going off in this place. There was nothing like it," disco dancer Stephanie Ovadi said.
For one night only all is as it was.
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"It incorporated the people into the music," she said.
The former disco inferno, once known as the 2001 Odyssey Nightclub is now a Chinese restaurant, and would have stayed that way except for the efforts of a fan of the film who spent more than $200,000 to recreate the famous dance floor and make this event free for local residents.
In this local crowd, a familiar face will stand out: Karen Gorney, who played Travolta's love interest, is coming back to celebrate a disco era that for those who lived through it has never died.