By the end of Reagan’s second term, a local entrepreneur named Tommy Quon had resurrected it as the hip-hop epicenter of North Texas. ![]() Originally a segregated postwar movie palace christened the Forest Theater, it was alternately transformed into a jazz cellar, a recording studio, and the stage for legendary seances by B.B. The property had already weathered several boom-and-bust cycles. The only thing anyone can agree on is that at the height of hip-hop’s first Golden Age, all the action in the Triple D went down at a club called City Lights. All exact dates have dissolved into a haze of liquor, hair spray, and the tinnitus caused by long-gone 808 claps. It was the winter of 1987-88 in South Dallas, or maybe it was the following summer. ![]() Vanilla Ice was discovered on Martin Luther King Jr. “Robby Van Winkle and Vanilla Ice are the American dream come true.” -Vanilla Ice, Ice by Ice I.
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