Paula & Raiford's Disco

This is one of those spots your mom warned you about - and is, as we say in the South, a hot mess. And that's why we love it so much! For years, Hollywood Raiford entertained Memphians in a huge old building on Vance, just south of the central business district downtown. A light-up dance floor, a la 'Saturday Night Fever' was the main attraction, after Raiford himself. Fast forward a few years, and the club has re-opened in a two-story space on S. Second, with the same fog machine and disco ball, but with Robert Raiford's daughter, Paula, taking up the reins after her dad's death in 2017. The crowd is a perfect mix of Memphis every night, with urbanites and suburbanites, hipsters, medical students, a few well-heeled Memphians crowding the dance floor. The beers still come in a bucket, and cash is king here.