By Nancy Knisley
The 8th Beat was an Ambridge teen club during the mid-to-late 1960s.
Even though I was a teen living in Ambridge at the time this club operated, I have no memory of it at all. I know I never went there. so I need to rely on what I've been told by others about the club:
The 8th Beat was an Ambridge teen club during the mid-to-late 1960s.
Even though I was a teen living in Ambridge at the time this club operated, I have no memory of it at all. I know I never went there. so I need to rely on what I've been told by others about the club:
The 8th Beat held dances on the second floor of the I.S.D.A. (Italian Sons and Daughters of America)/Young Peoples Social Club building, 337 Merchant St. Getting to the second floor required a climb up a long flight of steep steps. The dance floor had a mirrored disco ball and a stage where live bands played.
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Nancy Bohinsky Knisley grew up in Ambridge in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the author of Ambridge Memories, a blog dedicated to local history from 1950 to 1970. Visit ambridgememories.blogspot.com for more.
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