DJ Don Fendley. Don Fendley’s DJ career began in New York during the late-1960s at a Fire Island Pines club called The Blue Whale. Fendley had become frustrated with the starting-and-stopping of the Blue Whale jukebox, so he suggested to the owner that he could...
DJ Kevin Burke
DJ Kevin Burke DJ KEVIN BURKE - FIP BLUE WHALE TEA DANCE DJ 1977 - 1987, 1992, 1993 1994 DJ Kevin Burke was resident DJ at the Pines and Dunes Yacht Club, better known as the Botel, for 14 summer seasons from 1977 to 1987 for 5-7 days per week...
Pines People- David Lee
Pines People- David Lee In a late 1970's pre- AIDS world a gay man was still closeted. Especially David Lee. He worked for the corporate pharmaceutical world. A world where a gay man had to play it straight, and often had to hear the prejudice of the big boys club...
1970’s. Dancing the Disco Dance…
1970's. The Tea Dance had grown, and become the place to be on Fire Island, and with that the Pines became a destination. Disco music had taken over. Many from the music industry were coming to the Pines as it became a Gay cultural centerpiece. The worlds of Art,...