Max's Kansas City

Max's Kansas City is a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South in New York City, which became a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists, and politicians.
It was also a favorite hangout of Andy Warhol and his entourage, who dominated the back room. The Velvet Underground played there regularly, and it was a home base for the glam rock scene, which included Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, the New York Dolls, Jayne County (then Wayne County), Dorian Zero and the Magic Tramps. While her band did not play there until the second incarnation of the club, Patti Smith and her boyfriend, artist Robert Mapplethorpe, visited Max's almost nightly from 1969 through the early 1970s, before it began booking punk rock bands.

History

Opened by Mickey Ruskin in December 1965.

Type

Dance club

Characters in Location

• Leo Butz

Who's at Max's Tonight?

An easy way to populate the nightclub

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Dice	Choice 1	Choice 2
1	Roy Lichtenstein	Dan Flavin
2	The Velvet Underground	Philip Glass
3	David Bowie	Ray Johnson
4	Iggy Pop	Lotti Golden
5	Alice Cooper	Marjorie Strider
6	Patti Smith (and her boyfriend, artist Robert Mapplethorpe)	Carolee Schneemann
7	Philip Johnson	David Whitney (art dealer)
8	Larry Zox	Lillian Roxon (music journalist)
9	Ronnie Landfield	Fran Lebowitz
10	Richard Bernstein	Germaine Greer
11	Lawrence Weiner	Philip Johnson
12	Robert Smithson	Joseph Kosuth
13	David R. Prentice	Larry Bell