Editing Go-go bar (section)

==Etymology==
The origin of the term go-go dancing goes back to a 1949 British film ''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]''. This film tells the story of the sinking of a ship loaded with whiskey. The French title of this film was ''Whisky à gogo !'', "à gogo" being Parisian slang for "galore".<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MaHAgAAQBAJ|first1=Edwin A|last1=Lovatt|first2=René James|last2=Hérail|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=9781134930623|page=264}}</ref> During the period that this film was showing in France, discotheques were just introduced as a new form of entertainment. Due to the success of the film and the snob appeal of drinking whiskey in France, a number of discotheques were given the name "Whiskey à Go-Go".

The first ''Whisky à Gogo'' nightclub opened in Paris in 1947,<ref>{{cite book|first1=Bill|last1=Brewster|first2=Frank|last2=Broughton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Np3dpRhTsxQC&q=%22paul+pacine%22&pg=PA50|title=Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey|pages=50|publisher=Grove Press|year=1999|isbn=9781555846114}}</ref> drawing the "Whisky" part of its name from the whisky labels that lined its walls.<ref>{{cite book|title=Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PRoPX3DIwgC|first1=Claudia|last1=Mitchell|first2=Jacqueline|last2=Reid-Walsh|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|isbn=9780313084447|page=328}}</ref> In 1953 it became the first [[discotheque]].<ref>{{cite book|title=DJs: A Children's Guide to the Origins of Hip Hop|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sptLAgAAQBAJ|first=Lamont|last=Clark|publisher=70 West Press|year=2013|series=The Five Elements of Hip Hop|volume=2}}</ref> The club was franchised, first in Chicago in 1958 and then in Los Angeles in 1964.<ref>{{cite book|title=Fashion Fads Through American History: Fitting Clothes into Context: Fitting Clothes into Context|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDoVCwAAQBAJ|first=Jennifer Grayer|last=Moore|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2015|isbn=9781610699020|page=275}}</ref> In May 1964 the Los Angeles club was featured in [[Life (magazine)|Life magazine]] and by 1965 clubs called ''Whisky à Go-Go'' (or ''Whiskey à Go-Go'') had appeared in Milwaukee, Washington, San Francisco and Atlanta.<ref>{{cite book|title=How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music|first=Elijah|last=Wald|url=https://archive.org/details/howbeatlesdestro00waldx|url-access=registration|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780199753567|page=[https://archive.org/details/howbeatlesdestro00waldx/page/232 232]}}</ref> In the Los Angeles club a new style of dance was taking place, as go-go dancers in short, fringed skirts and high boots danced in a glass booth above the patrons. The first recorded occurrence of topless go-go dancing was in the Condor nightclub in San Francisco in 1964, and topless go-go dancing quickly became a part of the adult entertainment industry.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JscEZeXBsZYC|editor-first1=Abbe Allen|editor-last1=DeBolt|editor-first2=James S.|editor-last2=Baugess|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=9780313329449|page=253}}</ref>

During this time, several dance styles were becoming popular in which dancers danced separately from their partner or with no partner at all. American discos, often using the same name (“Whiskey A Go-Go”) as their French predecessor, introduced young women dancing alone in these new styles as a form of entertainment, creating the concept of a "go-go dancer".<ref>A.O. Aldridge, American burlesque at home and abroad; together with the etymology of go-go girl, in: Journal of Popular Culture, 1971, V, 565-575</ref>