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Retro scenes of nights out at Tokyo Jo's
Lancashire Post
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25/09/2024
Take a trip back in time to remember the good old days at Tokyo Jo's, Preston's premier nightclub for over 15 years.
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Hi, my name is Jack Marshall and I'm a digital reporter with the Lancashire Post newspaper
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and today we're just taking a quick look through some of our best retro archive pictures from
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the absolutely legendary local Preston nightclub, Tokyo Joe's. Now for the longest time Tokyo
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Joe's or Tok's was known as the go-to nightclub in Preston. It was famous for a good time,
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cheesy music, lots of laughs and just being the meeting spot for young people in the noughties
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and the nineties as well. And as a result of that it attracted more than its fair share
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of party people down the years who were all looking for, like we say, a good time and
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a proper night out in the city. Always a place to go to for fun, a bit of dodgy dancing and
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a place where you're going to create countless memories and tales to be told when you're
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feeling slightly worse for wear in the morning, I'm sure. Now recently I spoke to BBC Radio
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2 DJ Scott Mills who told us about how he was brought on to DJ at Tokyo Joe's, the legendary
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Tokyo Joe's, back in the day and he took a little trip down memory lane recalling what
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it was like to be working at the legendary venue back in the day, like we say. And so
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we've decided to put together a bit of a collection of our very best archive pictures from the
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club because it was obviously an infamous location for many, a famous place for kind
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of party goers and thrill seekers who wanted a bit of fun on a Friday night. So yeah, hopefully
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you'll be enjoying these pictures of nights out from the past, which like we say, go back
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to when Tokyo Joe's was its absolute peak. Obviously it closed in 2006 and it briefly
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became a bunch of other clubs such as Live and Ignite and Evoque, but neither of those
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could really capture the magic of the place. And I imagine it's still mourned by a lot
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of people to this day. I mean, if you speak to certain people from that generation who
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would have enjoyed going to Tokyo Joe's, the first thing they say when you talk about Preston
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and the nightlife there, they start mentioning Tokyo Joe's. They just talk about what kind
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of place it was and how much fun they had there and the legendary party games like,
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you know, not trying not to be the first one to go to the bathroom and things like
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that. But yeah, there's some really interesting history behind the building as well. The building
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itself originally opened in 1928 as a cinema, which eventually gave over to much of its
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floor space, you know, to become a disco area. Tokyo Joe's itself was born in 1990 after
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a million pound refurbishment. So they invested a lot of money in it and good times were had
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there for plenty of years.
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