All very helpful. thank you. the Cocoanut or the Palomar Ballroom were not places that most Filipinos (who were immigrant, mostly workers but some students) frequented back in the 1920s and 1930s because of the cost to enter these dance places. And taxi dancehalls are distinct from other dance places. Like many public social institutions, taxi dancehalls practiced segregation (some more blatant, others by its regulations, costs, etc).
Perhaps some of you might be able to point me to image sources for taxi dancehalls such as One Eleven Dance Hall (Main Street), “Danceland” (Main St.), Rizal Cabaret (spring st, b/t 2nd and 3rd), Tiffany Dance Hall (was Liberty Dancehall, Third St. b/t Main and Los Angeles Streets).
You’re right. I don’t think it’s the same Hippodrome. The information I’m looking for are the taxi dancehalls frequented by Filipinos in fact. I have a lot of information about it already. I just wanted to see if there are archival images of some of these clubs. My search led me to this LA Hippodrome but I think you are correct. It doesn’t seem like the same Hippodrome.
Hello. I am new on this cyber community. I am reading up on taxi dancehalls in the 1920s-30s and I have 2 questions. I’m hoping folks here could be of help:
1) Did theatres like the Hippodrome simultaeneously function as vaudeville theater and a taxi dancehall?
2) for LA folks: Can anyone recommend a good tourguide of historic downtown los angeles.
All very helpful. thank you. the Cocoanut or the Palomar Ballroom were not places that most Filipinos (who were immigrant, mostly workers but some students) frequented back in the 1920s and 1930s because of the cost to enter these dance places. And taxi dancehalls are distinct from other dance places. Like many public social institutions, taxi dancehalls practiced segregation (some more blatant, others by its regulations, costs, etc).
Perhaps some of you might be able to point me to image sources for taxi dancehalls such as One Eleven Dance Hall (Main Street), “Danceland” (Main St.), Rizal Cabaret (spring st, b/t 2nd and 3rd), Tiffany Dance Hall (was Liberty Dancehall, Third St. b/t Main and Los Angeles Streets).
You’re right. I don’t think it’s the same Hippodrome. The information I’m looking for are the taxi dancehalls frequented by Filipinos in fact. I have a lot of information about it already. I just wanted to see if there are archival images of some of these clubs. My search led me to this LA Hippodrome but I think you are correct. It doesn’t seem like the same Hippodrome.
Is this Hippodrome the same as the Hippodrome Dance Palace?
Hello. I am new on this cyber community. I am reading up on taxi dancehalls in the 1920s-30s and I have 2 questions. I’m hoping folks here could be of help:
1) Did theatres like the Hippodrome simultaeneously function as vaudeville theater and a taxi dancehall?
2) for LA folks: Can anyone recommend a good tourguide of historic downtown los angeles.
Thank you.