STREETSWINGS DANCE CLUB HISTORY ARCHIVES: INDEX [ R ]
Main
Legend:
aka = Also Known As || B=Ballroom || Bur= Burlesque || C= Cabaret
|| G= Roof Garden || H= Dance Hall || J= Juke Joint || N= Night
Club || R= Rest-Supper Club || S= Saloon || T= Theatre || V=
Vaud || M= Minstrel || X= Casino || Z= Hurdy Gurdy || n/a= Not
Avail.
Name Note X Street Address City State Type Dance Era Opened Closed Org Owner
Radio City
The Rockettes !,
Corps de Ballet
6th Avenue
50th Street
Rockefeller Center-NYC
NY
T
V
-
12/27/1932
current
Samuel L. Rothafel (Roxy)
Radio Room
Hellzapoppin '
Type Club1539 N. Vine Street
Sunset
Hollywood
CA
N
40's
-
-
-
Radium Club
Open All Night
-
-
Harlem
NY
N
?
30's
-
-
-
Rag Doll
-
Western
Devon
Chicago
IL
N
40's
-
-
-
Rag Doll, The
(Dean
Collins ), WCSwing
Victory
Colfax
North Hollywood
CA
N
S
50's
-
-
Tony Ferra & Joe Gianjuli
Rainbow Ballroom
n/a
Vermont
2nd St
Los Angeles?
CA
B
-
20s
-
-
-
Rainbow
Gardens became Palomar
Blrm .
-
-
Los Angeles
CA
B
BS
30's
-
-
-
Rainbo Gardens
Formerly Moulin Rouge Gardens-1917.
4812-36 N. Clark St.
-
Chicago
IL
N
B
10's
1919?/1922 reopened
Current as Rainbow Casino
Fred and Al Mann
Rainbow
Gardens -
Waldameer Park
n/a
Erie
PA
B
B
-
-
-
-
Rainbow Room
Rainbow Grill
Rockefeller Center
5th at 59th
-
NY
N
B
30's
-
-
-
Raleigh Room Night Club
(Raliegh Hotel) - Outdoor Club
-
-
So. Fallsburg
NY
N
B
40s
-
-
-
Ramona
Electric Park
-
Belle Isl. Bridge
Detroit
MI
B
B
20's
-
-
-
Raymor
-
-
-
Boston
MA
B
B
30's
-
-
-
Rector's
originally in Chicago
Broadway (2)
1)43rd Street.
-
NY
N
-
89's
1898
-
George Rector
Rector's
(Times Sqaure)
Longacre Square
43/44th Streets
Manhattan
N.Y
T
-
89's
-
$
Horse & Buggy Era vol. 1 Charles Rector
Regent, The
Theater
-
-
-
NY
T
-
-
-
-
Sam. L Rothafal
Reese & Weber
-
Broadway
-
-
NY
N
-
20's
-
-
-
Regal Theater
Contests
-
-
Chicago
IL
T
-
30's
-
-
-
Reisenweber's
became O'Meara Gardens.
981 8th Avenue, (Columbus crcl)
57-58th Streets
-
NY
N
-
-
1908
1924?
-
Renaissance
Ballroom Rennaissance Casino /2 story. on Strivers row.
2351 7th Ave.
150 W. 133rd St.
Harlem
NY
BC
BS
30's
1915
-
Robert Douglas untill 1971.
Renaissance Hotel
-
24 Public Sq.
-
Cleaveland
OH
H
B
10's
12-6-1918
current
-
Renaissance- Mayflower Hotel
-
1127 Conecticut Ave.
-
Washington
DC
H
B
20's
1925
current
-
Renaissance Room
Gotham Hotel
Fifth Ave.
55th Street
Manhattan
NY
H
B
30's
-
-
-
Rendezvous Ballroom
-
-
-
Crystal Beach
CA
N
B
30s
-
-
-
Rendezvous Ballroom
burnt down, rebuilt
Newport-Balboa Harbor
Palm & Washington
Newport Beach
CA
N
S
40's
3/24/1928
rebuilt in
8/7/1966 (burned down twice)
Rendevous
Biltmore?
-
-
Santa Monica
CA
-
S
50's
-
-
-
Rendevous
Swing, Disco
So of Disneyland
1281 Harbor Blvd.
Garden Grove
CA
N
S,D
80's
-
-
-
Rendezvous, The
-
St. Nicholas Avenue
-
Harlem
NY
N
N
30s
-
-
-
Rendez-vous Club & Cafe
-
-
-
Chicago
IL
N
B
20's
1926
-
-
Reno Club
-
-
-
Kansas City
MO
N
-
30's
1935
-
-
Rhodes
Taxi
Dancers -
Pawtuxet
Providence
RI
B
B
-
1901
-
Rhodes Brothers
Rhumboogie Club
aka: Onyx Club
732 Highland Ave
Hollywood
CA
NR
-
40s
-
-
-
Rhythm Club
-
-
-
London
EN
N
-
-
-
-
-
Rialto Theater
-
-
-
-
NY
T
-
-
-
-
Samual Rothafal (Roxy)
Ringside Club
-
-
-
Paris
FR
N
-
50's
-
-
-
Rio Bamba
Rhumba 151 E. 57th
-
NYC
NY
N
-
40's
-
-
Linton Weits
Rio Cabana
Nancy Doran, Berry
Bros.
400 N. Wabash
-
Chicago
IL
N
-
40s
-
-
-
Rio Cafe'
-
-
-
Harlem
NY
N
L
40's
1948
-
-
Ritz Ballroom
-
-
-
Dodge City
KA
B
B
-
-
-
-
Ritz-Carlton & Ritz-Grill
Crystal Garden.
Madison Ave
46th Street
-
NY
H
B
30's
-
-
-
Roane's Place
-
141st Street
Lennox Ave
Harlem
NY
N
-
30's
-
-
-
Rococo Ballroom
-
-
-
-
NY
B
B
00's
-
-
-
Roman Garden
Revolving
W. 42nd Street
-
-
NY
CN
B
?
-
-
Murray ?
Rose Danceland
-
125th Street
7th Avenue
Harlem
NY
B
S
20's
-
-
-
Rose
Bud Cafe' Famous Ragtime Bar
2220-2222 Market Street
-
St. Louis
MI
NR
-
89
1900
1906
Tom Turpin
Roseland
Original
12th Street
Chestnut
-
-
-
B
20's
1918
-
1 of 3, Louis J. Becker
Roseland
Ballroom "America's Foremost Ballroom"
239 W. 51st. Street
Broadway
New York City
NY
B
BS
30's
1919
current
2nd Of 3, Louis J. Becker
Roseland Blrm
# 3 of 3
Massachusetts
Astor Place
Boston
MA
B
B
-
-
-
-
Roseland Blrm
# 2 of 3
Fulton
Flatbush
Brooklyn
NY
B
B
-
-
-
-
Rosemary's Ballroom
-
13020 Sherman Way
Laurel Canyon
North Hollywood
CA
B
B
60's
-
-
-
Rosevelt Hotel
Guy Lombardo
Madison
45th Street
NYC
NY
B
B
30's
1934
-
-
Rosevelt
Hotel Ballroom Said to be Haunted
7000 Hollywood Blvd.
near Vine St.
Hollywood
CA
BH
B
30's
1927
current
Mary Pickford
Rosevelt Grill
-
-
-
Harlem?
NY
N
-
30's
1934
-
-
Ross Ballroom
(Morey's Ballroom)
114 W. 15th St.
-
Huntington Beach?
CA
B
S
40's
-
-
-
Round Robin
became: Forge, Blue Moon
Colorado
-
Glendale
CA
N
DS
50's
70's
Current name Unk.
Eddy?
Royal Cafe'
-
-
-
Brooklyn
NY
N
-
10's
1910?
-
-
Royal Garden
-
-
-
Chicago
IL
N
-
20's
-
-
-
Royal Roost
see Bop City, Embers
Broadway
-
Harlem
NY
N
-
40's
1947
-
Ralph Watkins
Rowe Hotel
-
-
-
Grand Rapids
MI
N
-
50's
-
-
-
Roxy
Theater The Roxettes !,
changed to Rockefeller Center
50th Street
7th Avenue
-
NY
C
-
20's
3/11/1927
1934-1959, Rockefeller Center. 1960
Samuel L. Rothafel
Rupnecks
-
-
-
Chicago
IL
-
-
50's
-
-
-
Russian
Ballet RestaurantW. 57th Street
-
-
NY
R
-
30's
1932
-
-
Ryans,
Jimmy
-
-
-
NY
C
-
40's
-
-
Jimmy Ryan?
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Legend:
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| L= Latin | No= No Dancing | R= Rock | Rag= Ragtime Dances
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