Martin Block's ​Make Believe Ballroom

Voiceover notes and scripts

Martin Block Patter

"I'd like to thank you...  and YOU.... and ES-PE-CIA-LLY YOU!"

Our broadcast originates from the Worlds Finest Ballroom - the SAVOY.

This remote broadcast from WNEW is nationally syndicated through the Columbia Broadcasting System

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VENUES: BALLROOMS
 https://www.streetswing.com/histclub/a1a.htm
https://stlouis.genealogyvillage.com/Dancing.htm
https://www.facebook.com/ballroomhistory/
http://www.walternelson.com/dr/dance-venues
http://martinturnbull.com/hollywood-places/?fbclid=IwAR041b4NCjDSB6DpVl0coQS88V0cY1Fyv_heP4Dq3UavmMXM_iPdwkjBVVg



Alhambra Ballroom   NYC1905 - 1960s; reopened 2003   126th st at 7th av
    2116 Adam Clayton Powell Jr #3, New York, NY 10027
https://www.thealhambraballroom.com/


Apollo Theater -  254 West 125th Street NYC  1913 - 1930.  Reopened 1934 - 1976
Re-opened 1976 to current      https://www.apollotheater.org/​

Arcadia Ballroom - St Louis 3517 Olive St near Grand.  1920-1966

Avalon Hollywood (Los Angeles) aka El Capitan, Jerry Lewis Theater, Hollywood Palace, The Palace)  1500  1735 N Vine St  Hollywood and Vine   1/24/1927 - 2007 demolished to create House of Blues.  
  2002- present CONTROL SKRILLEX, Porter Robinson, Wolfgang Gartner, NERO  40" subs  Nu-Electro techno; current:  https://avalonhollywood.com/about/



Casa Loma (Cinderella's 1927) - St Louis   1935 - 1940 (burned, re-built)
http://www.casalomaballroom.com/

Concordia Ballroom - St Louis



Cotton Club - Harlem 1923-1935;  Midtown 1936 - 1940.

Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club - Los Angeles

Frasers Dancing Pavilion - Venice CA  

Grand Ballroom (Cinderella's) - Chicago  1923 - present  6500sq ft dance floor 708 seated, 855 standing.  original 60ft 1920s bar   6351 S. Cottage Grove  Chicago, IL 60637   Home of the real groove masters      http://www.grandballroomchicago.com/

Hollywood Bowl

Hollywood Roosevelt - Blossom Ballroom

Millenium Biltmore Hotel  Los Angeles  1927 - current

Paradise Ballroom - chicago  (Guyon's)    1916 - burned down 1972 sept 9
During the 1910s and 1920s, patrons were allowed to dance waltzes and two-steps, but not the fox trot or the Charleston.

Pavalon - Huntington Beach

Roseland Ballroom    Broadway at 51st  1919 - 2014

Savoy -  596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Str
3/12/1926 - 7/10/1958   Modelled after the downtown Roseland (white)


​Trianon  Chicago 1922  62nd st Cottage Grove Ave  demoisted in 1967
Trianon was modeled after Louis XIV's Versailles.  WMBB (Worlds Most Beautiful Ballroom) radio station.  

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VENUES:  Electro/DJ (Modern)


E11EVEN  Miami Beach
https://www.timeout.com/miami/nightlife/e11even
https://11miami.com/

​CONTROL  - Avalon Hollywood (LA)
SKRILLEX, Porter Robinson, Wolfgang Gartner, NERO  40" subs  Nu-Electro techno; current:  https://avalonhollywood.com/about/





​JAZZ Clubs of the 1920s
Birdland
Dizzy's Club
52nd St:  Thre Deuces, Onyx Club
Harlem's Minton's Playhouse
Village Vanguard

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