Before the South Beach explosion, South Florida enjoyed early on nightlife success during the start of the 70's, only second to New York city in the "Discotheque" market, South Florida has seen it's fair share of internationally known dance clubs.

Early examples include the likes of Pagoda's, Top Draw, Mix 2, The Brasserie, Widows McCoy, Rum Bottoms
Rum Bottoms, Cheekers and the first ever Limelight
Limelight, other hot-spots included, The Mutiny
The Mutiny, Honey For The Bears, Studio 51, Faces In The Grove
Faces In The Grove, Facades
Facades, Stringfellows
Stringfellows, Alexandre, Scaramouche
Scaramouche, Suzanne's In The Grove
Suzanne's In The Grove, Cats
Cats, Pete & Lenny's
Pete & Lenny's and a slew of other legendary dancefloors.

During the 80's, the South Florida nightclub business began to really take shape while the party-goers numbers began to increase in dramatic fashion , there were more then enough large scale nightclubs opened willing to fill the demand, Club 1235
Club 1235 , Club Nu, Backstreet
Backstreet and Pendrod's, amongst others enjoyed immense success as they laid the foundation to the demands and expectations for the South Florida nightclub scene, witnessed today.

The most popular of all South Florida dance floors, was not large in size, it did not offer a million dollar laser light show, nor did it share a Coconut Grove or South Beach zip code, but it could be said to have been Miami's own version of the famed New York "Studio 54" due to it's fun loving, free spirited atmosphere, that club was Casanovas
Casanovas