Go-go dancing bars are located in Patpong and Soi Cowboy streets of Bangkok. Not very many nightclubs had go-go dancers in the 1970s. However, in the late 1970s, there was a nightclub at 128 West 45th Street (the same location where the Peppermint Lounge had been) in Manhattan, New York City, called "G.G. Barnum's Room", patronized mostly by transsexuals, that had male go-go dancers who danced on trapezes above a net over the dance floor. In 1978, the Xenon night club in Manhattan became the first night club to provide go-go boxes for amateur go-go dancers to dance on. In the early
Go-go dancing 1960s-era clubgoers wore miniskirts and knee-high, high-heeled boots, which eventually came to be called go-go boots. Night club promoters in the mid‑1960s then conceived the idea of hiring women dressed in these outfits to entertain patrons. The term "go-go" derives from the phrase "go-go-go" for a high-energy person, and was influenced by the French expression "à gogo", meaning "in abundance, galore", which is in turn derived from the ancient French word "la gogue" for "joy, happiness". On 19 June 1964, Carol Doda began go-go dancing topless at the Condor Club on Broadway and Columbus in the North Beach neighborhood of