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5 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 2 0 lack ird was designed to be a rustic yet intimate club with modern design cues. I felt it should be a club that reected the passage of time, hence the ghost lack ird sign from its past life as cleaning powder factory. I also created multi-layered stained wood panels that were popular during the early to mid-seventies. The up-close-and-personal vibe reected the vulnerable state one of the characters was going through during this episode. Dugan's was a club designed to capture the energy and atmosphere of juke joints of the past. That hard-to-find club tucked back in the corner in the French Quarter or in the village in Manhattan. Part of that look involved building a meanine level that hovered above the bar. To further give Dugan's its own uniueness, I created large upholstered tuck and roll panels along the wall that complemented the booths. onceptually, I wanted to recreate a breakout moment the characters were experiencing during this this episode. As swing sets go, I could not have pulled the logistics of three clubs in a single space without the cooperation of the crew members. American Soul/Soul Train Culture: Saturday television in the 1980s was an hour-by-hour journey toward maturation. You would start at 8 a.m., a mere child watching Super Friends. When you were old enough to still be watching TV around noon, the pleasures of Wide World of Sports, or else some schlocky tween comedy beckoned. Later in life, and in the day, budded American Bandstand, with its apple-cheeked rendition of dance-oor liberation, and its freuent companion on the syndicated schedule, Soul Train, a black-music show existing at a sweet spot of pop culture and folk tradition—the vernacular funk of the dancers articulating the essence of the hits. It showed you how to move in step with the moment. In a 2013 book titled Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation, Questlove hails the show, which aired from 1971 to 2006, as "not only a transformative cultural moment" but "a sibling, a parent, a babysitter, a friend, a textbook, a newscast, a business school and a church"—"the master of teaching you lessons that you didn't know you were being taught." ADG A. MA MABEL'S. ILLUSTRATION BY THOMAS PRINGLE. B. & C. MA MABEL'S. PHOTOS BY ANNETTE BROWN. D. DUGAN'S NIGHTCLUB. SKETCHUP MODEL BY MICHAEL WARD. E. GUY'S AND DOLLS NIGHTCLUB. PHOTO BY ANNETTE BROWN. F. THE SOUL SHOW. SKETCHUP MODEL BY MICHAEL WARD. G. THE SOUL SHOW. PHOTO BY ANNETTE BROWN. H. SOUL TRAIN AT DUSABLE HIGH. PHOTO BY ANNETTE BROWN. I. SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE TOUR BUS. PAINTED GRAPHICS BY LIZ BUCKLER. A B C