Los Angeles Landmark Nightclub The Satellite Memorialized In New Video

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An homage to the long-shuttered nightclub The Satellite/Spaceland and to the Silver Lake-Echo Park-Hollywood of yesteryear is captured in a new video from a Los Angeles band.

Once one of the cultural landmarks of Los Angeles’s east side, The Satellite nightclub in Silver Lake (which was formerly called Spaceland) hosted such acts as Lady Gaga, Foo Fighters, and many more nationally prominent alternative and pop groups before falling victim to the pandemic’s ebb on audiences.

The venue has been closed since 2020, joining other clubs and concert halls across the nation. Ben Golomb, part of the band Modern Time Machines, came up with the video concept and spent years tracking down photos and footage. “I’m an LA native, and it always puts a smile on my face to discover before/after images of familiar, local haunts in my hometown,” Golomb said. “I guess it’s a bit like finding a slightly awkward photo of your parents in their high school yearbook.

You just have to know more about the little details. I named my band Modern Time Machines, and being a vintage-obsessed time travel nerd in general, it seemed pretty on brand to do this video as soon as the idea came to mind.” Inspiration struck Golomb in late 2019 when the Amoeba Music location on Sunset was closing, followed soon after by the destruction of the Googie architecture Lytton Savings building on Sunset (it was a Chase Bank in its final incarnation before being demolished).  “I had to quickly jump into action to film sequences for the video, making repeated trips to locations right as they were in the process of being razed,” Golomb said. “Then I had to visually match time progression shots manually – it took a lot of work, but totally a labor of love.