Stories From A Young Boomer

Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. The closing of the Garage was hard for a lot of people, no one more so than Larry. This particular story has been told by others closer to Larry, people like David Depino, Michael Sampson and Joey Llanos, the ones who knew him best. You can find these stories on the internet with a simple search. Larry and I had a working relationship, I really didn't socialize with him much. For the most part we kept our relationship professional. We did the hello and how are you thing, but we never really got to know each other... We hung out in groups situations in the tech shop or in the stars dressing room, in Mike Brody's office, or occasionally in the Booth, but this was the extent of our interactions. I never got to know Larry well, and I wish that I had. It was around 1986 or so, I started looking to do some lighting outside of the club. Derek Vasquez, one of the other Garage Techs, had turned me on to a local Production Company ...

  How was I introduced to the Paradise Garage,  Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. I guess like a lot of folks I went there and fell in love with the soul of the club. When I got out of the Marine Corps in’82, I returned home and landed a job at Mount Sinai Hospital. I had no idea of what career direction to take, but I knew that the Corps set my standards high and I wanted to do something great. Working at the Hospital about a year, when a childhood friend of mine, Peter Munoz invited me to come and party at this night club where he worked. I had never gone to a club in Soho before so I thought this would be an awesome night out. There was a young woman named Elizabeth, who worked with me at Mount Sinai whom I wanted to date, so I invited her and one of her friends, Kim, to join us. On the Subway ride downtown, Kim slipped us something to move the night along in the right direction lol, this was a first for me so don’t judge, besides it was the 80’s. ...

The Technical Crew of the Paradise Garage  Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. I decided to tell some stories regarding my recollections of the Paradise Garage in New York. I want to do a series of blogs about The Garage because I want to cover a few things in length and talk about subjects rarely discussed. Hello, my name is Ralph, I was one of five people who worked on the Tech Crew at the Paradise Garage. The Tech Crew was a group of people who worked behind the scenes at the club, we were responsible for installing and maintaining new lighting designs throughout the club, while also assisting the decorators with implementing and lighting their new and fantastic creations which were designed weekly. We were not part of the social scene at the club while it was open, the day ended for us at midnight, so we were basically done for the day. Our work week started on Wednesday and ended on Saturday. On Friday we would finish up the new designs we were working ...