On The Scene: Baby Loves Disco

On The Scene: Baby Loves Disco

Hey, baby -- it's time to get your groove on at the clubs. Just don't forget to bring some diapers and a bottle. Oh, Mom and Dad too: Aidin Vaziri | They were fighting in the lobby, peeing in the hallway and nodding off on the dance floor. It wasn't the kind of behavior the burly bouncers standing watch over the velvet rope at Ruby Skye, a sleek nightclub in downtown San Francisco, usually tolerate. On Saturday, however, they were simply outnumbered. Baby Loves Disco, the monthly traveling dance party for swivel-hipped toddlers and their culturally deprived parents, had rolled into town. Shortly after the doors opened at 2 p.m., the place was so packed that Sarah Mallace, who was working the list, had to get tough. "We've been turning people away," she said, as young parents balancing bottles, blankies and diaper bags waited out front. Strollers were parked four rows deep at the entrance. Inside the club, Soomee Arikawa bounced under the disco ball to Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus" as her 9-month-old son, Tayme, took everything in from the safety of a BabyBjörn carrier strapped to her chest. "There's nothing else like this," the San Francisco native said. "My whole mommies group is here." The dance floor was crowded with wobbly small fry from 3 weeks to 10 years old along with their grinning parents, all jiggling, running and shouting to classics by the likes of Michael Jackson, Kool & the Gang, Madonna, the Bee Gees and Prince. "I think he's delirious because he's missing his nap," said one chic mother, chasing after a screaming toddler with a Mohawk.