Nightclub

The nightclub at the Bankstown RSL is a single dark-walled room with a sprung dance floor in the centre, bench seating along the perimeter, and a bar set into one corner. The walls are painted matte black, broken only by mirror panels at regular intervals around the room. The ceiling is dropped, lined with acoustic tile, and fitted with the standard nightclub array of mirror balls, par cans, and a fog machine still mounted in the corner. The dance floor is polished timber, the strip pattern picking up what little light remains from the partly-stripped bar back. Stage curtains hang at one end of the room, drawn back. The DJ booth at the side is empty, its monitors and cabling removed.

Suburban RSL nightclubs were a mid-to-late twentieth-century fixture, with the larger clubs running a separate venue inside the building for the late-night Friday and Saturday crowd. Bankstown's nightclub operated alongside the auditorium, the bistro, and the bars through the club's run as a major Sydney social venue. By the time of the photographs the room had been closed for some time, used only for storage or as a private function space. The Bankstown RSL was demolished in March 2019. The nightclub is gone with the rest of the building, sprung floor and matte-black walls scrapped.