Ah! Clove cigarettes.
As much as I’ve slagged Arlington TX here, we did have a good dance club (“The Stage”) for a few months in early 1987. Places like this had no beer/wine nor liquor licenses, and ostensibly hosted the crowd of 18- to 20-year-olds who could no longer get into (many or most) liquor-serving clubs after the drinking age went up to 21 in 1986. But they never checked ID, and the crowd was more like 15-20. (In contrast to the self-described teen club which was more like 12-15, up to when people were able to drive themselves elsewhere.)
EDIT:
If we felt like driving all the way to Dallas, there was Sparx (which, IIRC, was 18+). Just found this link apparently to a (lo-fi) mix of one night in 1987.
And then there was the Starck Club. They also had an 18+ night (Sundays, IIRC) – I never visited until a year or two after they got busted (yet they remained open). I believe the scene from RoboCop filmed there was also after their bust.
But back in Arlington we also had The Dragon’s Lair. This was the bar portion of a restaurant that was decorated inside to look like a street in Hong Kong – a DJ and a guy I knew who (I guess) put up the money rented the bar space once a week for dance night. We showed up with our friends, and unfortunately some of their friends were skinheads who trashed the place one night and Dragon’s Lair got kicked out. (Why skinheads wanted to hang out at a dance club in the first place is beyond me.)
