The Batcave, 1982–1984

“In time we moved to Mile End, to a sort of ghetto full of musicians, news readers, and producers from the BBC. We learned to knit, we knit on the train, learned to play mah-jongg, and went dancing at the Batcave, or the Camden Palace on a Thursday night.”

But what is the Batcave, you might wonder, if you bought this e-book and read Maria Bustillos’ story “On Travel As An Escape From Untenable Circumstances” (excerpted here, and in the quote above), and weren’t already familiar with the Batcave?

This video may or may not clarify, but it has a lot of amazing hairstyles (and: “As well as the B Movies of Sci-Fi Sex Drugs and Horror, we also showed the occasional Mud and Jello Wrestling”). Plus the fourth picture here is of Alien Sex Fiend.