The Ice Palace, at 57th Street and Sixth Avenue, appears in Andy Warhol’s diary as a late-night gathering place where the shifting company of Halston’s circle came together. Across separate visits, it serves both as a charged social setting for Bianca Jagger’s distress and as one stop in a night that continued into the early morning.

Setting and clientele

Warhol describes the venue as a place frequented by lesbians and hustlers. On one visit, the group arrived after spending the evening at Halston’s, where dinner and drinks had preceded a tense conversation about Bianca Jagger’s separation from Mick Jagger. At the Ice Palace, the atmosphere was physical and unsettled: drinks spilled over the people dancing, leaving everyone wet.

Bianca Jagger’s distress

At the club, Bianca Jagger danced but seemed deeply unhappy. She and Halston tried to persuade Jed Johnson to go home with them, and asked Warhol whether that would be all right. Bianca said that nobody liked her. The club scene thus records more than a change of venue: her distress, already apparent during the evening at Halston’s, became explicit amid the dancing and the group’s efforts to bring Jed along.

A stop on the late-night circuit

On another occasion, after a theater outing and a return to Halston’s, Bianca Jagger made calls to learn who was at the Ice Palace and elsewhere before the group headed out again. Later that night, Warhol and Jed Johnson went to the club, which was quiet, with only a few hustlers present. Around three in the morning, the two slipped out. These entries place the Ice Palace within a loose circuit of theater, private homes, restaurants, and clubs, while their contrasting descriptions—one crowded and disorderly, another nearly empty—show how the same venue could hold very different moods from night to night.