Club Kids

Photo: New York Magazine

This story first appeared in New York’s issue of May 14, 1988.

Zaldy Goco is a Tunnel Kid. Part Spanish, part Filipino, and part Chinese, Zaldy, 21, grew up in San Francisco, the son of doctors. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles to study fashion design at Otis/Parson’s; instead of going to class, though, he went to clubs — “crazy wild” places like Power Tools, Seventh Grade, Playground, and Dirt Box (“That was probably the best of them all”). Zaldy didn’t last long there ...