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<\/a><\/p>\nThese were taken about 10:45 before the club got super packed.\u00a0 I hoped to take more pics, but the fog machine made it pretty much impossible to get decent images.<\/p>\n Be sure to keep an eye on the Commercial Appeal… Michael Donahue was there last night with a video camera, and he got video of Raiford dancing around as he DJed.\u00a0 Raiford was just unbelievable… he danced all over the place and changed outfits at least 5 times.\u00a0 Raiford is the Mick Jagger of Downtown Memphis, except with better hair and clothes.<\/p>\n Unfortunately I didn’t make it very late into the evening, because I thought it would be a good idea to start at the Saucer with a bottle of North Coast Brother Thelonious.\u00a0 Brother Thelonious comes in a 25.4 ounce bottle and is 9.4% alcohol by volume.\u00a0 Needless to say I was pretty well soused by the time I polished that bad boy off.\u00a0 I made it to Paula & Raiford’s at 10:30, and after a couple of quarts of Bud Light I was near the point of passing out by 12:30.<\/p>\n As for the size of the new club… I wouldn’t say it’s 4 times as big as the old one as I’d heard, at least not the way they have it laid out.\u00a0 I’d say more like two and a half times.\u00a0 It’s still pretty big though.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Paula & Raiford’s was pretty well packed by midnight.\u00a0 I don’t think they’re going to have any problem drawing a crowd there.<\/p>\n Even King Willie showed up and busted a move on the dance floor for a few minutes.<\/p>\n Going back tonight… and this time I’m determined to make it a late night.\u00a0 No pre-club high-alcohol beers.\u00a0 I am, however, going to go on a bar tour of the Downtown core tonight.\u00a0 This is what I’m thinking:<\/p>\n Right now, though, I’m hungry for sausage biscuits, so I’m going to walk up the street and do a breakfast tour of Blue Plate Cafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I paid my first visit to Paula & Raiford’s Disco at 14 S. Second last night, and it was everything I hoped it would be.\u00a0 Here are a couple of pics: These were taken about 10:45 before the club got super packed.\u00a0 I hoped to take more pics, but the fog machine made it pretty … Continue reading “Opening night at Paula & Raiford’s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n\n