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Legend: aka = Also Known As / B=Ballroom / C=Cabaret / G=Roof Garden / H=Dance Hall / J=Juke Joint / N=Night Club / R=Rest-Supper Club / S=Saloon / T=Theatre / V=Vaudeville / M=Minstrel / X=Casino / Z=Hurdy Gurdy / n/a=Not Available
Name Note Cross Street Address City State Type Dance Era open Closd Org Owner/ or Mgr
Adrians Tap Room - - - N.Y. City NY - - 40's - - -
Alabam, Nite Club Miss Bea Haven, Rozika 747 No. Rush St. W. Chicago Ave. Chicago IL Z B 20's - - -
Alamo, The Glass Floor - - Chicago IL N B - - - -
Alexanders Dockside Lounge West Coast Swing 1050 Schooner Dr. Harbor Ventura CA N S 80's n/a 6/2002 n/a
Alhambra, The  - n/a - St. Louis, MI. MI D - - n/a - n/a
Alhambra Ballroom - 126th Street 7th Avenue Harlem NY B - - - - RKO took over?
Alhambra Ballroom - - - Rhode Island RI B B 30s - - -
Alhambra Ballroom - Crescent Park - Riverside RI B B 30's - - -
Alhambra Theater Destroyed by Fire (Quake) Bush Street - San Francisco CA TN B 00's -  1906 -
Algonquin No Dancing! 59 W. 44 St. - - NY S - - - - -
Ambassador Hotel Embassy Ballroom, Cocoanut Grv. Lounge 3400 Wilshire Bl. - Los Angeles CA B B 50's 1/1/921 - -
Ambassador Hotel Donald Sawyer & Evelyn Grieg Park Avenue 51st Street - NY H B 20's - - -
Ambassador Hotel (New) - - - Atlantic City NJ - - 10's 1915 - -
American Music Hall Chez Firehouse 141 East 55th Street - - NY N - 30's - - Originally a church
American
Night Club		 - - - Miami, FL FL N - - 1958- - -
Annex 3 locations 2840 & 2300 S. State St.   Chicago IL N - 30s 10/1934 - -
Apex Club was the Nest, Club Alvadere. E. 35th ST S. Prarie & S. Calamut St. Chicago IL N - - 1925 1928 Julian Black
Apollo
Theater		 was Hurtig & Seamons 1920s-253 West 125th St. 526 E. 47th n/a Harlem NY V 20s - 1/26/34 current Sidney Cohen/ then Brecher & Schiffman
Apollo, (Nixons) - Boardwalk - Atlantic City NJ T - - 1920's - Nixon
Appomattox Club - 2330 Santa Ana   Los Angeles CA N - 30s - - -
Aragon Ballroom at Lick Pier. Also Casino Gardens 5th Street Hill Street Ocean Park CA B S - 30's 1943 (Swing movies made here.)
Aragon Ballroom - - - Cleveland OH B BS - 40's? - -
Aragon Ballroom The
Wonder Ballroom		 1100 Lawrence Ave. Near Broadway Uptown, Chicago IL B BS - 7/23/1926 - William A. Karzas
Arbor Dance Hall Owney Madden was shot here. - - - NY D - - 1911- - -
Arcadia Ballroom was Dreamland before WWI - till 1925 3515-23 Olive ST. - St. Louis MO B J 10s - 1925 Paddy Harmon (Dreamland), Joe Ternes
Arcadia Ballroom - Woodward   Detroit? MI B S - 1914 1941 -
Arcady Hotel - 2619 Wilshire - Los Angeles CA BN S 40's - - -
Arkota Ballroom - - - Sioux Falls SD B B - - - -
Armando's Ramonis Orch 54 East 55th - - NY N L 40's - - -
Astor Coctail Lounge/ Roof Astor Hotel Broadway 44th Times Square? NY N B 30's - - -
Auditorium 3 story n/a Playa Del Rey Beach Playa Del Rey CA B B 10s 1902 n/a n/a
Audubon Ballroom 1st. Marathon Dance in USA 168th St. Broadway Manhattan NY B B 20's 1923? - Mgr. George D. Grundy
Audubon Ballroom (Malcolm X assinated here) - - - - - - - - - -
Avalon Ballroom - - - Boston MA B BS 40's - - -
Avalon Ballroom (This was the main one) - - Catalina Is. CA B BS 30's - - Lawrence Welk?
Avalon Ballroom - - - La Crosse WI B BS - - - -
Avalon Ballroom also amusement park - - Barron Lake MI B B 40's - - -
Avalon Ballroom - - - San Francisco CA B B - - - -
Avalon Show Lounge Skeets Morris 1241 Wabash Ave. Loop Chicago IL C B 40's - - -
Avedon Ballroom - San Pedro Main Street Los Angeles CA   LS 40's - - -
 
August 20, 2004
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