![]() We don’t need many people to fill it up.” Guests can access it from the south or east, bypassing any traffic gridlock.Īnd the intimate, 3,500-square-foot space is well-suited to Camelot’s unusual approach to membership, he says. He likes that Camelot is near Clematis Street without being on Clematis Street. Mayo’s business partner, 43-year-old Jeremiah Pitts, admits the pair is trying to turn around “a tarnished venue.” But the address is one that Pitts, who in the early 1990s parked cars at Palm Beach’s Au Bar, has eyed for years. In 2012, Mystique underwent an extreme makeover on Spike TV’s “Bar Rescue.” Rechristened Aura Nightclub, it closed last year. In 2009, when the space had morphed into Mystique Lounge, a Boynton Beach man was charged with second-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder after shooting two men outside the club. In recent years, violence cast a shadow over the 70-year-old building.ĭon’t let it be forgotten that in 1999, when the long, narrow venue was known as Chino’s Nightclub, two Riviera Beach men were arrested on charges of attempted first-degree murder for shooting a bouncer in the face. Those weren’t words often associated with the previous businesses that occupied 114 S. ![]() ![]() “There’s a new generation that wants something a little more subdued and classy.” “I feel like we were losing a lot of the nighttime crowd to Atlantic Avenue (in Delray),” he says. Its cavernous nightclubs? “Definitely not where I want to go,” says Mayo, who adds that, at the age of 51, he feels like he’s aged out of Respectable’s, too. Put simply, the current Clematis Street landscape is no longer his pint of Guinness. He launched the nautical-themed spot, which is decorated with black-and-white photos of Jack and Jackie Kennedy, as much for himself and his contemporaries as he did for the typical twentysomething clubgoer. Mayo’s boat-shaped DJ and VIP booths are docked center-stage at his latest downtown West Palm Beach venue, Camelot Yacht Club. His latest project: Building large sections of yachts - a bow here, a transom there - out of teak and crafting bar tops from mahogany. Over the past several months, Mayo has burned the midnight oil on multiple occasions … in his West Palm Beach wood shop. For 27 years, Mayo has logged long hours, and worked more than a few so-late-it’s-early DJ shifts, as founder of Respectable Street in 1987, one of the original partners behind O’Shea’s in the mid-1990s and current owner of Howley’s diner and Hullabaloo gastropub in West Palm Beach, Dada in Delray Beach, Kapow Noodle Bar in Boca Raton and Kill Your Idol in South Beach, just to name a few. Anyone who’s worked for him, dealt with him or tried to track him down for a quote knows that Rodney Mayo is an inveterate night owl. ![]()
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