Wasn't that a cool bar where they went dancing? I liked how the floor lighted up as they danced--and don't forget the romantic boats at the end of the dock!
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shareApparently, there used to be places like this - fairly nice places with live orchestras and dancing, the sort of place people dressed up to go to - outside smaller cities and towns all over the country. I guess they served the same purpose that hotel ballrooms served in the big cities. They were not the same as roadhouses, which were more common, much less fancy, and had jukeboxes rather than orchestras.
Actually, I'm sure these places existed outside big cities, too, but larger cities offered other locations for (reasonably) respectable drinking and dancing as well, like nightclubs and hotels.
Anyway, I agree. It looked like a fun place to go.
It does look like a very nice place, but like so many things in the movies, it's probably nicer than reality. On the other hand, It's surprising the amount of talent that turns up in small towns, especially in the pre-television era, so maybe at least some of it's accurate.
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