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Crystal Ballroom, originally built as Cotillion Hall, is a historic building on Burnside Street in Portland, Oregon, United States. Cotillion Hall was built in 1914 as a ballroom, and dance revivals were held there through the Great Depression.
The Crystal opened its doors as a ballroom in 1914 (as World War I began), in the days when frisky Portland residents could still be arrested for dancing the Tango. During the Great Depression, “Dad” Watson staged popular old-time dance revivals here as a way to raise people’s spirits.
22 Ιουλ 2016 · Portland is the whitest big city in America, with a population that is 72.2 percent white and only 6.3 percent African American. “I think that Portland has, in many ways, perfected neoliberal...
2 Ιαν 2014 · 1920s: Lola Baldwin of the Portland Police’s Women’s Protective Division repeatedly raids the Cotillion for morally offensive jazz dancing. “A great majority of women and girls owe their downfall to the dance hall,” Baldwin declares. →
In 1859, when Oregon joined the union ahead of the civil war, it was the only state to explicitly forbid black people from living within its borders. Going into the 20th Century, the deadly,...
16 Ιαν 2014 · The Crystal Ballroom was founded in 1914 by Montrose Ringler, who also brought basketball to Portland. Hills called him an “amazing character.” “In the mid-1890s, he came from the Midwest to...
13 Ιαν 2014 · A timeline of the Crystal Ballroom, starting with the Portland venue's controversial origins as a dance studio in 1914.
