Papillon's

What can you say about Papillon's. My best friend Simon Ritchy, first opened this club in the Quaker Village Shopping Center as a disco following the success of the movie Saturday Night Fever starring a young John Travolta. When the disco craze abruptly ended he started booking national rock acts in the room and for several years Greensboro was host to the biggest, most successful rock club in the state. In an era of drugs, sex and rockin' roll, perhaps the biggest unknown secret of it's success, and then it's eventual down fall, was that Simon was the most honest and honorable promoters in the south. In that he stood alone.

In the picture bellow Elvin Bishop performs to yet another sold out crowd.