Put on the polyester: Highland Park nightclub owner Joe Bortz has a groovy answer to Baby Boomers’ cries of longing for the good old days.
Bortz’s BEG Inc. Enterprises is opening Groovy, a nightclub on Dundee Road in Palatine where customers will be able to toast the 1970s in a “Brady Bunch” look-alike living room or disco the night away. The target for opening is the last week of September.
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“I realized that a lot of older people want a return to those memories. But young people who have been introduced to things from that era also find them fun and humorous,” Bortz said.
Memory joggers include the “Laugh-In Wall,” the TV show’s zany window-closer; a side slice of a VW bus; polyester-clothed mannequins, and shag carpeting. “It will be a time warp,” Bortz said. “The city usually gets the cutting-edge places. This time it will be here in the suburbs.”