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Vincent's dance hall

posted 13 years ago by zahcary
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Were Gloria and the other workers prostitutes? It seems unlikely to me that men would pay money just to do some boring dancing. But I wasn't around in the 50's so maybe I'm wrong.

[–] duderunner 13 years ago

I'm guessing it was just dancing, and company. Probably the were encouraged to buy the women drinks at inflated prices. Kind of a cheap way of buying an escort rather than a prostitute.

[–] nyjack 12 years ago

They were legitimate dance halls; they did those sorts of things back in the day.

[–] JohninVegas 11 years ago

That's what they did back then. It was very popular and I bet it would be popular today.

[–] mingusal 9 years ago

It was what was called "taxi dancing" (aka "dime-a-dance", although it was probably a bit more than a dime in Times Sq. by 1955). Men would buy several inexpensive tickets, each of which would get them a short dance with one of the girls employed by the hall.

It was indeed quite a popular attraction, and most big cities had taxi dance halls. Although it was considered (believe it or not) quite "racy" and pretty disreputable. Where I grew up in Detroit there were one or two of them that operated into the late '70s.

[–] Movie_Piranha_1979 10 years ago

I don't think so.
I always thaought that Gloria, like the other girls, offered as company and a dance partner.
After all it was just a regular and legit dance hall.

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.