BYO Disco Dance FLoor

[Santoro]

http://web.mit.edu/storborg/ddf/

Ah ah ah ah Stayin' Alive

[rchadd]

thats awesome!

now where did i put that white suit?

[GGKoul]

You could have purchase the actual dance floor used in Saturday Night Fever on eBay, but the auction was just called off.

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Dance floor auction called off

BY LUIS PEREZ AND PETE BOWLES
STAFF WRITERS

March 31, 2005, 6:30 PM EST

Friday's proposed auction of the "Saturday Night Fever" dance floor has been called off -- at least temporarily.

After a party promoter claimed that he won the rights to the floor in an earlier auction, State Supreme Court Justice Ira Harkavy of Brooklyn issued an order halting the auction and scheduled a court hearing for next Wednesday.

Vito Bruno of Brooklyn told the court that he won the rights to the light-flashing floor with a bid of $6,000 at an "absolute auction" on Feb. 15.

Bruno said the floor was never delivered and the club owner decided to sell it on eBay instead. He has filed a lawsuit against Spectrum Disco seeking either the floor or $4 million in cash.

"It is clear that Mr. Bruno was wronged by a slight of hand perpetrated by the defendants," said Bruno's attorney, Bruno Codispoti. "We believe very strongly that Mr. Bruno will be successful in obtaining ownership of the dance floor."

More than 7,000 people worldwide registered over the past month to bid in today's auction. The floor, which features more than 300 flashing lights, was expected to fetch six figures.

Yesterday, not knowing the auction had been shelved, hundreds of bidders continuted to shimmy to the Hollywood-based auctioneers' phone lines and e-mail inboxes, placing their own starting bids.

Lorna Hart, a spokeswoman for Profiles in History, the high-end house of memorabilia managing the sale, said she could not comment on the court order. "This is being handled by our attorneys right now," she said. Asked for the names of the attorneys, she said: "I am not at liberty to release their names."

She added: "There are 400 other items in the auction. The auction has not been canceled."

Hart said the auction house had been inundated with calls about the dance floor. "We have a small staff of six and literally, all day, everybody is on the phone or on email answering their questions," she said.

The auction for Lot 149 was to begin at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time, with the bulk of the bids entered via phone. Some people were traveling to California for the auction, and some 300 others were to bid on E-Bay. No jive talking is expected; the low bid is $60,000 to $80,000.

In the 1977 movie, John Travolta starred as Tony Manero, a fresh-faced, but tough-talking kid from Bay Ridge who clerked in a paint store by day and made the girls scream on the dance floor by night. His throne was the custom-made dance floor, built for $15,000 especially for the film.

Hart said the floor, which illuminates rhythmically to music, is expected to match ranks with past auctioned-off treasures, including a Star Trek Enterprise command chair that went for $304,000.

[missioncontrol]

I'd rather build a stripper dance stage complete with a pole 

[Stingray]

Now if only I had some rhythm.

-S

[SirPoonga]

can it play tetris?