March 20th 2010

Stats And History About Stan's Disco Scene   To See A Brief Video On The History Of Stan's DJ Entertainment  Click Here

Stan started doing weddings back in 1973 as a Mobile DJ. The equipment was very primitive at the time. Back then there was no Disco….Not Yet! Stan played Rock & Roll until Larry Hartman approached Harry Weiss who owned the Show Bar on 5th & Willow with a new concept of DJs spinning records. Harry went with the idea and three guys with records and sound equipment went to work with Larry Hartman leading the team as the DJ and Larry Perini, and Stan Horst on the sound equipment. Larry Hartman and Larry Perini moved on to pursue other adventures and Stan remained behind to spin records at the Show Bar Disco.

A movie called Saturday Night Fever staring John Travolta came out in 1977 which lead Stan to expand the Mobile DJ business by adding more DJs and Sound equipment till he was able to have 8 Disco units going at a time.

In 1977 Stan was then called to the Treadway Inn to provide Disco music in the Lobby/Lounge which was eventually moved the Ballroom.

Stan’s Disco averaged between 400 and 450 in attendance with 535 being the most in attendance at the Treadway Inn now known as the Quality Inn.

Stan also started to cater to the younger crowd by playing at the Annville Fire Hall till that became too small to host the growing crowd of dancers.

Stan’s moved the weekly dances to Lebanon Catholic HS where it started to grow in attendance up to 1,350 kids dancing on a Saturday night which also is where we aired The Stan’s Disco Dance Shows on local TV. This started to create a parking problem at the neighboring Pushnik’s Nightclub. In 1978 Stan’s Disco relocated to the Robert Hall Building in Annville, which became the home base for Stan’s Disco.

In 1978 Stan’s Disco got recognized in the National Billboard Magazine and also was the Cover Story in  local magazines in 1979.

To this day Stan is operating two DJ Companies, Hard Drive DJs and Stan’s DJ Entertainment, which employs his two sons Cory and Craig Horst.

Up to this point in time Stan’s DJs have appeared at over 6,148 functions and events. Hopefully Cory and Craig will carry on the DJ business when Stan decides to call it quits.

Here are some of the Stan's Disco T-Shirts that were produced during the Disco Phenomenon. There are 2 or 3 styles missing but in the most part these were the most popular ones. The pictures have a brief description and date of when they were produced. The T-Shirts were offered in 10 different colors.

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Here are Some Of The Other Colors That Were Produce Back Then

Stan's Disco T-Shirts On Sale In Black

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Here are some of the other stories and news articles done on Stan. 

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