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The Taxi dancer or "Dime a Dance Girl" was a popular
trade in the twenties and thirties. These ladies were dance hostesses
at dance saloons and dance halls. Some would be dance instructresess
as well at some of the better dance establishments who offered
them for dance lessons. Taxi dancing was sometime offered in the
Medicine Shows and Gilly's (gillies) that would pop up in small
towns.
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some of the dance only halls, (no lessons) they would supply
the women for lonely men to dance with. Many of these "Dime
a Dance Girls " would become prostitutes. Prostitution
(see
poster ) was very popular with many of these ladies,
however over half of the ladies working for the better establishments
were of good morals while making a pretty good living and were
not prostitutes.
During
the Vietnam War, many Vietnamese Dance Halls featured Taxi Dancers,
Service men could dance with these girls just for the purchase
of a drink. Taxi Dance halls resurfaced for a bit in the 1960s.
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Birth Place |
Creation Date |
Creator |
Dance Type |
| USA |
1900s |
n/a |
What
was popular |
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Night Clubs |
Theaters |
Locations |
| 1901
- Rhodes Casino (Pawtuxet) |
n/a |
Chicago,
IL |
| 1930s
- Tango Palace Ballroom (NY) |
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Los
Angeles, CA |
| Pussy
Kat Dance Club |
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New
York, NY |
| Red
Mill Dance Hall |
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Vietnam |
| Taxi
Dance Hall (NY) |
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Most
States |
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Films / Movies |
Television |
Ballets / Stage |
| Here
Come The CO-Ed's |
n/a |
1922
- Ziegfeld Follies |
| 1927
- The Taxi Dancer |
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Child
Of Manhattan |
| 1933
- Asleep in the Feet (Todd) |
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| 1937
- Paid To Dance ? |
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| 1964
- Go Go Go World (*Mondo) |
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Publications |
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1937
- Life Magazine |
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12/1939
- True Story Mag. |
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8/1953
- Vue Magazine |
Dancers, Choreographers etc. |
Political |
| Nancy
Carroll (Actress) |
Gracie
Allen (Actress) |
n/a |
| Mary
Goddess (Hostess) & Marathons |
Doris
Day (actress) |
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| Thelma
Todd (Actress) - 1933 |
Malaysian
Taxi Dancers (*Mondo) |
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Musicians |
Singers |
Poets / Writers |
| 1919
- Harry D. Kerr |
n/a |
n/a |
| Count
Basie |
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Misc. Research Words that may be related ... to help your searches |
| Flappers |
Rump
Room |
Immagrant Fillipino Dancers |
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W.W.I |
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Other...
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