Nowheresville was great, and such a great name. I usually ended up in that room when I went to Club USA. And without a doubt the club's genius was in its design, certainly not the music or the clientele. I didn't realize Eric Goode of Bowery Bar/The Park fame was the designer but I'm not surprised .... it was gorgeous.
But you're right, Daddy about the amount of money spent. I like to think of Club USA as the Titanic of nightclubs: huge, beautiful, wastefully extravagent, over-the-top and .... short-lived. If memory serves me right it only lasted about a year before shutting down. Like Titanic, Club USA sank soon after the launch of its maiden voyage.