"He put his fingerprint on every single one.'' The Royal Manor North, on Route 1, featured a disco, a go-go, a deli, a mechanical bull and a rock‚'n'‚roll room, said veteran concert promoter Stan Levinstone, who worked with Stock at the former Birch Hill nightclub in Old Bridge. Other Stock clubs included the Royal Manor North in North Brunswick and the Royal Manor South in Wall. At the same time he had disco music at the Foxy Lady (now Deko Lounge in Sayreville) and the Colonial's Garter (also in Sayreville) had cover bands.'' "At the Sea Girt Inn, he had a crazy organ player and a drummer, just those two, and there were 3,000 people in the club and the floor was shaking. "He had different genres at different locations,'' Beninato said. Stock's clubs featured primarily cover bands and dancing. He was able to satisfy a whole generation's partying desires, and it was amazing.'' No one opened clubs in so many places and have not one of them be unsuccessful. "He had his finger on the pulse of a generation. "Amazing man,'' said Tom Beninato, long-time owner of the former Club Bene in Sayreville.
Stock owned as many as 14 nightclubs, including the Playpen Lounge, and three others in Sayreville, during the decade. The one-time king of New Jersey nightclubs has died.Īrt Stock, whose New Jersey club empire spanned from Sayreville to Cape May in the 1970s, died Sunday, Jan. UPDATE: Central Jersey nightclub impresario Art Stock dead at 74
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