40 Watt Club

The 40 Watt Club is a music venue in Athens, Georgia. Along with CBGB, the Whisky a Go Go, and selected others, it was instrumental in launching American punk rock and new wave music.

Photo: Geogre, Public domain.

Type: Nightclub
Description: Music venue
Address: 285 West Washington Street, Athens, 30601

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Morton Theatre and Tree That Owns Itself.

Morton Theatre

Theater building

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The Morton Theatre, located in downtown Athens, Georgia, at 195 West Washington Street, is one of the first vaudeville theatres in the United States uniquely built, owned, and operated by an African-American businessman: Monroe Morton. Morton Theatre is situated 430 feet east of 40 Watt Club.

Tree That Owns Itself

Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.

The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 1,400 feet southwest of 40 Watt Club.

Georgia Theatre

Music venue

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Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic. Georgia Theatre is situated 800 feet east of 40 Watt Club.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Dearing Street Historic District.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.

Dearing Street Historic District

Neighborhood

Photo: Patmcalex, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dearing Street Historic District is a neighborhood.

Normaltown

Neighborhood

Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896.

40 Watt Club

Category: fixed construction
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.9583° or 33° 57′ 30″ north

Longitude

-83.38002° or 83° 22′ 48″ west

Open location code

865RXJ59+8X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 476029910

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=nightclub

Wikidata ID

Q4637419

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In Other Languages

From Esperanto to Japanese—“40 Watt Club” goes by many names.

Esperanto: “40 Watt Club”
Japanese: “40ワット・クラブ”

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