I used to go to Fame City every weekend around 1987 thru 1989 or so. The teen club upstairs was called Studio Circus, and the DJ's name was Alex C. That was a cool place because teenagers actually had a place where they could go dance and hear cool music. Alex would break songs there that hadn't even hit the radio yet. You can't find places like that for that age group anymore. Kids used to actually practice dance routines and do them at the club. Alex would even play a few slow songs--something you never get at clubs these days. And everyone knew each other there. The guy at the door's name was Marcus and the refreshment girl was Margarita.
There was also a club downstairs that catered to an older crowd. I don't remember the original name, but at some point, Alex C took it over and they called it I.C.Q. There was art painted on the walls by a guy named Dez.
I'd assume that a lot of the people who went to Fame City regularly were kids from Elsik and Hastings high schools.
I've since moved from Houston, and it's a shame if that place went downhill or if it doesn't exist anymore. All good things, they say, never last.
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Wow! Stormko! You have a good memory! I bet I know whom you are!! You're right, that was a great place and I had a lot fun while I worked there.
I was know as DJ Alex C back in those days, but I changed my name in 1996 because there were too many DJs going by the same name at the time.
Alex Clavijo, Alex Cherry, and Alex Gutierrez, whom actually passed himself as me in some clubs, and Alex Cherry who also gave a club owner friend of mine my business card from Energy 96.5 FM and said he was also me. I just had to change my name.
Wow! Remember I.C.U.? That club made history!!! All hip hop, East Coast, West Coast, Houston music and even Miami Bass hip hop! I remember we used to fit 1,200 kids into a club that only held capacity for 600 people and at the end of the night you could touch the walls of the club and feel the perspiration or humidity when everyone was gone.
That used to be Club EFX and the manager was Sha Razai. That was the first club to play house music in Houston also. Sha gave me the opportunity to break and showcase house music for the first time in Houston back in 1987 and we even booked Micky Oliver from Chicago when his hit "Intensity" was big here on my mix show on KQQK 106.5 FM. Then I moved to Energy 96.5 FM and that was a blast.
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Wow! Stormko! You have a good memory! I bet I know whom you are!! You're right, that was a great place and I had a lot fun while I worked there.
I was know as DJ Alex C back in those days, but I changed my name in 1996 because there were too many DJs going by the same name at the time.
Alex Clavijo, Alex Cherry, and Alex Gutierrez, whom actually passed himself as me in some clubs, and Alex Cherry who also gave a club owner friend of mine my business card from Energy 96.5 FM and said he was also me. I just had to change my name.
Wow! Remember I.C.U.? That club made history!!! All hip hop, East Coast, West Coast, Houston music and even Miami Bass hip hop! I remember we used to fit 1,200 kids into a club that only held capacity for 600 people and at the end of the night you could touch the walls of the club and feel the perspiration or humidity when everyone was gone.
That used to be Club EFX and the manager was Sha Razai. That was the first club to play house music in Houston also. Sha gave me the opportunity to break and showcase house music for the first time in Houston back in 1987 and we even booked Micky Oliver from Chicago when his hit "Intensity" was big here on my mix show on KQQK 106.5 FM. Then I moved to Energy 96.5 FM and that was a blast.
Boy those were really fun days!