Sammies at Studio 54

Steve Rubell was born in New York City on Dec. 2, 1943. He was raised in a Jewish household in Brooklyn, and he went on to study finance at Syracuse University. There, he met Ian Schrager, a fellow member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.

In the mid-1970s, he teamed up with his old friend Schrager and entered the burgeoning disco market. "We just decided, ‘Hey, let’s try and do a nightclub.'”

While the club only operated for a few short years in its original form, Studio 54 has had an unparalleled influence on modern nightlife, fashion, and celebrity culture that has endured for decades, inspiring today’s entrepreneurs to focus on the people — who will always make a place what it is — of the world they aspire to build.

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