The Loft story began about Valentine’s Day, 1970, at David Mancuso’s downtown Manhattan loft on the second floor 647 Broadway in New York. It was in a neighborhood of 19th century buildings, vacant on the weekends and nights because just a few resided there in the commercial lofts. Only artists, musicians and other adventurers lived there without the convenience of grocery stores and the comforts of heat at night and on the weekends.
David’s house party (which began as a Saturday night rent party), attracted an eclectic and diverse collection of guests, the mysterious and bizarre, midnight Saturday to 8, 9, 10 and later in the morning on Sunday. Then, they, the joyful, musically infused dancer guests would disembark from the Mothership Loft and jauntily wend their way home to begin a new week until we met again on another Saturday night.