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Commentary: The dance floor from ‘Saturday Night Fever’? It’s stayin’ alive

The dance floor that John Travolta made famous in “Saturday Night Fever” is up for auction.

There’s that floor again, that famous floor — geometric, primary colors, flashing in the perpetuity of pop culture memory, an icon of the long-ago disco era. Surely you’ve seen it, pulsing beneath John Travolta’s platform shoes in the 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever.”

It’s in Los Angeles later this month along with other items of Hollywood lore, including the Ark of the Covenant prop from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The auction is a joint project of Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (on which ads have been relentless). At the moment,

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