How am I just discovering Pulsations? How did I not know the 8th Wonder of the World was once in Delco? I mean, Jon Taffer ran the place and called it the greatest nightclub ever built. Imagine that. Not New York, Miami, or Vegas. The greatest club ever built was in Delco and I’ve never heard of it until today. The club had a spaceship and $400,000 dancing robot that was Paulie’s robo-butler in Rocky IV. It looked like god damn Mecca for cocaine and probably ripped a hole in the ozone layer above Glen Mills because of the amount of Aqua Net in there. A light fixture fell from the roof and killed a woman on the first night and they still lasted 12 fucking years! That’s how great this club was:

15,000 square feet! 10 levels! 11 bars! I mean is this Delco or Studio 54?

Talk about pageantry! Talk about pomp! Nowadays we sit in line for an hour just to pay a $20 cover with no promise of a $400,000 dancing robot inside. Oh, how the club has fallen. People were having religious experiences watching the robot come out of the spaceship:

They had KISS tour speakers for god’s sake. So if your parents can’t hear for shit, you know why. It was Pulsations. We need more guys in this world like Leon Altemose, via Jon Taffer for Rolling Stone:

Pulsations was the brainchild of a gentleman named Leon Altemose. If you do a little research on Leon you’ll find that he was a non-union builder in Philadelphia, which is a union town. The guy had to have remote starters on his car because they would blow them up. They threatened his family. 60 Minutes did a huge story on him. He was this anti-establishment guy and he wanted to build the greatest nightclub in the world, and I believe we did it. We had a robot custom-built for us by International Robotronics in New York. Its name was Pulsar and it was skinned to be an alien. It got so popular that they had a clone built for Rocky IV. Pulsar would come out of a spaceship and dance with the crowd every night. The spaceship was 27 feet in diameter, pulled about 600 amps and had 70 lighting systems on it. It would fly over the crowd on an I-beam track and come down over the dance floor. The doors would open, dry ice fog would dump out, bright lights would come on sort of like that scene in Close Encounters, and this $400,000 robot would appear to levitate out of the ship onto the floor. It was a really remarkable thing. Pulsations: It was the greatest nightclub in the world and I am honored to be a part of that history.