Sally Lippman, known as Disco Sally, a 77 year-old Studio 54 regular.
Sally Lippman, known as Disco Sally, a 77 year-old Studio 54 regular. After her husband passed away, she found a new lease of life in the discos of the 1970s and 1980s. “I gotta come every night. It’s like a drug,” Sally Lippman, who was a lawyer, told the Washington Post in 1978. “I haven’t practiced for 40 years but have given out advice free, gratis, for nothing.” Her husband, who died in 1975, had studied law and had worked for the Federation for Jewish Philanthropies and in public relations. Her husband never really liked to dance. They both liked “good music.” In September 1978, Sally first came to Studio 54 “with a young 25-year-old boy” who told her, “You really must see it.” She recalled, “I stuffed my ears with cotton, and came.” Scott Bitterman, a former busboy and then assistant manger at Studio 54, recalled, “My favorite regular at the club was a bright, funny elderly woman who came several nights a week and danced much of the night. I attended several dinner parties at he