1977: Studio 54 opens

This marks the end of the Second Turning in a very elemental way. Viewer comments of this video describe a drastic change from second and fourth turnings, with New York now depicted as a "sterile, sanitized, overpriced, Disneyland environment." The "Disnification" of large American cities generally relates back to a First Turning zeitgeist, that now looks darkly ironic in contrast.