Edit Dancing The Night Away


It was 1955 and television had taken a grip on the city although the evening programmes weren't exactly geared to the average adolescent or early twentysomething.

The alternatives? There was the pictures, of course. The city had no end of cinema houses: La Scala, Cranstons, the Regal, the Cosmo.

There was the theatre, too. The Alhamabra, the Empire, the Metropole, the Citz. All well and good.

But if you were a young Glaswegian with an active pulse and a desire to meet people - and you maybe had your eye on a prospective wife or husband - the best choice was the dancin'.

In 1955, Glasgow had no fewer than 30 dance halls, like the Astoria in Sauchiehall Street, the Plaza, Dennistoun Palais, the F+F Ballroom at Partick Cross, the Barrowland, Green's Playhouse, to say nothing of the Albert, and the Cameo at Shawlands Cross.
 

JOHN WRIGHT says: Lets hear it for the local dance halls in the early 50s. What about the "TOP HAT" the "LANGSIDE HALLS" the "BURGH HALL" in the SHAWS where Saturday night dancing was a main feature every weeekend and travelling a little further south there was the "TUDOR BALLROOM" in Giffnock and dancing in "STRACHANS HALL"in the Thornliebank area.

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