“Club Regine” of Puerto Ordaz — archive photograph being sought (temporary image)

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Club Regine

Themed parties and Sunday matinees in Puerto Ordaz

A discotheque on Carrera Guasipati in Puerto Ordaz (Bolívar state, Venezuela), of the businessman Oscar Simoza, famous for its themed parties and for its Sunday matinees, where the minitecas of the area performed.

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The club of the Simoza brothers

The Club Regine was a discotheque in Puerto Ordaz run by the businessman Oscar Simoza, brother of the announcer José Luis Simoza, one of the voices of Guayana radio. While José Luis supplied the voice, Oscar supplied the business: the venue operated on carrera Guasipati, in the basement of a building in the center of the city.

Its name was inspired by the legendary Club Régine of Paris —that of the nightlife entrepreneur Régine Zylberberg—, although it bore no further relation to it: it was a nod to the glamour of that international nightlife brand.

Themed parties and the Sunday matinees

What made the Club Regine memorable were its themed parties —in the style of the great clubs— and, above all, its famous Sunday matinees. On those Sunday afternoons many of the minitecas of the area performed, which turned the Regine into a key meeting point for the mobile sound scene of Puerto Ordaz and into a showcase for the Guayana crews.

David Carpio “Mr Boogie”, discjockey of the Miniteca 750, also passed through its booth: he recalls being a DJ at the club in 1984.

“El lugar de moda en Puerto Ordaz”

José Luis Simoza himself publicly fixed a date for the club's moment of splendor. Recalling it on his social media forty years later, he wrote that on June 29, 1979 the fashionable place in Puerto Ordaz was the Regine's Private Club, and he asked his followers who had lived through it.

His testimony supplies two things the entry did not have: a concrete date of activity —June 1979, that is, that the club was already in full operation at the end of the seventies— and the way its own people wrote the name, “Regine's Private Club”.

«June 29-1979, forty years ago the fashionable place in Pto Ordaz was Regine's private club. Which of you lived through that?»
— José Luis Simoza

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Still to be confirmed are the exact years of activity, the precise address (the building on carrera Guasipati), the club's other partners and the specific minitecas that performed at its matinees. If you lived the Club Regine or keep photographs, posters or accounts, the MiniTK Archive takes them in with credit.

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Credits and sources

· David Carpio “Mr Boogie” (biography sent to the CMTK Archive, November 2026): he was a discjockey at the club in 1984.
· Primary source of the CMTK Archive: the Club Regine, of the businessman Oscar Simoza (brother of the announcer José Luis Simoza), operated on carrera Guasipati in Puerto Ordaz, in the basement of a building; its name was inspired by the Club Régine of Paris (with no further relation); it was famous for its themed parties and for its Sunday matinees with minitecas of the area.
· External context: carrera Guasipati was one of the streets of Puerto Ordaz nightlife (along with venues such as La Miuty and Baci); the name refers back to the Club Régine of Régine Zylberberg (Paris). No specific independent sources were found about this Club Regine of Puerto Ordaz.
· Public testimony of José Luis Simoza, announcer and brother of the owner, published on his social media: “Junio 29-1979, hace 40 años el lugar de moda en Pto Ordaz era Regine's private club”.
· Under documentary verification: the exact years of activity, the precise address and the partners of the club.

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Source consulted on July 18, 2026

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