OED Appeal: disco

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a citation in June if the March cite is unacceptable for some reason.

Cite: 1964 June 21, Washington Post, Little Black Dress Gets New
Swing: Discotheque Is Fashion's Inspiration by Ruth Wagner, Page F1,
Washington, D.C. (ProQuest)

[Begin excerpt]
The our sketches were made at Washington's own disco, Whisky a Gogo,
at M st. and Wisconsin ave. in Georgetown.
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:01 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is a match in Google Books with an ambiguous date. The GB date is
> 1964, but it contains a January 1965 issue. It is probably too late.
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> Omnibus and Chicago FM guide - Volume 2 - Page 26
> 1964 - Snippet view - More editions
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=EgofAQAAMAAJ&q=disco#search_anchor
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> [Begin excerpt]
> "You wear them for disco (discotheque) dancing, or for a formal party
> at someone's home," explained the famous designer. "You wear them for
> an entrance," Cyd Charisse said when she came for her fitting of the
> flirtatious dance pants.
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> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Here is an example of "disco" in March of 1964. The text does say
>> "disco jockeys" and not "disc jockeys". The women are dancing and
>> spinning records.
>>
>> Cite: 1964 March 10, Marietta Journal, Hollywood Reporter by Mike
>> Connolly, Page 6, Column 3, Marietta, Georgia. (GenealogyBank)
>>
>> [Begin excerpt]
>> CIRO'S, once the swingin'est spot In Smogville-on-the-
>> Pacific, reopens this spring with a new gimmick. It will have
>> glass booths suspended from the ceiling with a staff of skimp-
>> ily-clad starlet-type disco jockeys dancing the Watusi inside
>> while they spin those records.
>> [End excerpt]
>>
>> Garson
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