Oh Jesus, what is this place my friends showed me?
In English, the sign says the place is called CLUB "40" Â But in Polish it's called czterdziestka, which my friends tell me pretty much means "forty-something" as in the age- 40+
Yeah, I knew these places exist overseas, and I've even been to one once in a smaller city in Germany (I walked in and 99luft balloons was playing and everything). Â But I never guessed we had one of these Euro-Discos for middle aged people right here in Chicago! Â The Polish community imported a fine 80s style Disco for the 40-somethings- God bless 'em!
So inside they've a fair sized dance floor complete with disco lights and such. Â Nobody was on it on any of the weeknights I've been here, or even Fridays. Â They've a small pool table in the back, and they even serve food too, but on most nights all the middle-agers are hangin' out at the bar which is pretty cool in it's own right- they've completely surrounded the bar with large glass walls that kind of seal the bar off from the thumpin' system on the dance floor. Â That's important come Saturday night when the magic really happens and this place gets packed! Â See, those glass walls don't prohibit a dashing middle aged Polish dude from scoping out the scene of fine divorcees on the dance floor!
Music here is heavy on bad 80s Eurotrash. Â I sat slack jawed at the bar watching a music video from an 80s band we didn't even get here in the states-'Modern Talking.' Â If you know of this band, they pretty much fit the scene here to a T- if you don't, picture Siegfried and Roy circa '84 in a key-tar duel!
I'm not a 40-something Polish dude on the prowl, so my absolute favorite part of this place is the wonderful art they have hanging on the walls. Â All very carefully crafted by various artists- oil paintings on one wall, Sepia tone images on another, all with a common theme- NUDE WOMEN. Â Some are pretty explicit too- awesome, just awesome.