Taxi dance hall
Videos
A taxi dance hall is a type of dance hall where dancers, usually young women, called taxi dancers are paid to dance with usually male patrons. The owners of a taxi dance hall provide music and a dance
Taxi dancers were common characters in films and novels. Lobby card for The Taxi Dancer (1927)
New dancing academy in Seattle on a 1922 magazine cover, one of several constructed by Mr. De Honey in several American cities
1948 demonstration against the closure of taxi dance halls in Shanghai, China
Taxi dancers at a Tokyo dance hall in 1930.
Barbary Coast, San Francisco
Videos
The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that featured dance halls, concert saloons, bars, jazz clubs, variety shows, and
Taxi dance hall
…meeting her on a Thursday night, circa 1928. The taxi dance hall as an American institution that was first introduced in 1913 within San Francisco's Barbary Coast neighborhood. At that time reform movements were shutting down many bordellos and red-light districts within America's cities, and strength for Prohibition…
The shipping docks of Buena Vista Cove at the east end of Pacific Street during the 1860s (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)
Portsmouth Square, looking north to Telegraph Hill, 1851
International Settlement, 1940s, Pacific Avenue from Montgomery Street towards Kearney Street (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)
Jazz pianist, composer, and vocalist Oscar Peterson