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Trocadero Transfer

The team had won the US Formation Championship Gold Medal in September of 1977. Wishing to keep performing to sharpen our skills, the team went up to the San Francisco International Grand Ball at the SF Hilton. The performance went great but we were on quite early in the evening, so by 9pm we began to think about doing what all Trojans do on annual Bay Trip- Parteeee! Ron suggested we ask one of the local hotel workers what a good club for dancing. Remember this was 1977 and disco clubs were hot, and we wanted to dance. Well the young, very good looking waiter said the best club was on the waterfront warehouse area under the Bay Bridge. It was a hot, new club called Trocadero Transfer. We piled into three taxis and hustled over. Imagine our preppy USC eyes when we see a line of guys, some in tiny spandex briefs, spray painted silver with glitter head to toe, with little wings on the shoes and head. It was definitely a spectacle and we were definitely going to see it. With Ron in the lead we waltzed (hustled) right in. Surprisingly there was no alcohol- only fruit juice drinks, but the music was off the hook! We danced for several hours before heading home and I’m sure our dancers doing Disco Cha cha and Disco Samba were as much a spectacle to the Trocadero’s usual patrons. Years later fans of Hustle Music refer to Trocadero Transfer with the kind of reverence held for Studio 54 in NY and Circus in LA. 

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