[billyoh]

Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied someone on another table you'd dial their table phone and strike up a chat. Can't remember the name of the club but it was on Market Street somewhere. Good times!

[jabl]

When I lived in the student dorms at uni, each room had it's own telephone, and the numbers were somewhat consecutive in some kind of order. So drunk students were playing tic-tac-toe in the middle of the night by calling the rooms on the other side of the street trying to get a row/column of lit windows. ;)

[gonzo]

The club in Newcastle was Tuxedo Junction.

there was a short-lived clone of same in Las Vegas in the early/mid 1980s as well.

[dredmorbius]

Story on TJ/NoT: <https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-new...>

[jamiek88]

Is that where the tuxedo princess (the revolving dancefloor boat!) name came from?

[daggersandscars]

The US Max & Erma’s restaurant chain had this in the ‘80s as well.

[AnimalMuppet]

This kind of nightclub was the setting for "Dial M For Murder".

[dredmorbius]

Which in turn inspired Arthur C. Clarke's "Dial F for Frankenstein" short story:

<https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2137>

[comprev]

Basically an exchange trading pit but with music :-)

[Luc]

Tuxedo Junction

[mikrl]

Now you have Digital, in the same complex that houses a biotech research lab (the Life Sciences Centre, formerly the Centre for Life)