When Smokey Robinson & the Miracles had a hit with "Going to a Go-Go" in 1966, much of America had exactly one nightclub come to mind, even if they'd never ventured that far west themselves: the ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Teenie Harris Archive / Carnegie Museum of Art; Getty. When Nan Goldin danced in low-life go-go bars in Paterson, N.J., I was a girl in Paterson, N.J., living ...

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