Taxi dancer
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A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a ballroom dance. Taxi dancers work on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United
Poster for the film Ten Cents a Dance (1931) with Barbara Stanwyck as a taxi dancer
Lobby card for The Taxi Dancer (1927)
Taxi dance hall
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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 dancer
…dance partner in a ballroom dance. Taxi dancers work (sometimes for money but not always) on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United States, male patrons typically bought dance tickets for a small sum each. When a patron presented a ticket…
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.