A friend salvaged it from a garbage heap after the club closed. In the garden behind his Chelsea apartment is the sign that used to hang over the club's door: a curly-haired figure with a tambourine halo, along with a disco whistle and an amyl nitrate popper dangling below.
THE tattoo on Mel Charen's left bicep is the logo of the Paradise Garage, the club that occupied 84 King Street in SoHo from 1977 to 1987.
