Cheetah was a discotheque in Manhattan

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 which opened May 28, 1966, and closed in the 1970s.
The club was located at 53rd Street and Broadway.
Jackie Cassen and Rudi Stern were associated with the club.

According to Steven Watson's "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties" it "was the granddaddy of the big commercial disco".
The musical Hair

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 was performed at Cheetah before becoming a major production on Broadway

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In addition, the Cheetah Club is widely cited as the birthplace of Salsa music or at least start of the popular use of the term "Salsa" to denote Pan-Latin music brewing in New York City. On Thursday August 26, 1971, The Fania All Stars headlined the club and drew an overflowing and excited crowd that was later captured on film as "Our Latin Thing." The Fania All Stars brought together the leading lights in Latin music styles (Descarga, Mambo, Boogaloo, Merengue, Folkloric) and presented a single concert drawing from these diverse influences. Although the term "Salsa" had been used in latin music dating back to at least Pupi Legatteta's 1962 LP "Salsa Nova," this modern combination of styles being presented at the Cheetah Club began to become popularly known under the umbrella term "Salsa."