The Century Room’s Retractable Dance Floor
by Paula Bosse
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by Paula Bosse
If you’re getting all dressed up for a night on the town, you want to make sure you get your money’s worth, entertainment-wise. That’s why you head to the tony Century Room at the swank Hotel Adolphus. Not only is there dining and dancing, there’s also an ice show. Yep, an ice show. When “Texas’ Only Complete Floor Show on Ice” has wrapped up, a dance floor magically covers the ice, and you and your honey can trip the light fantastic to the fabulous strains of Herman Waldman & His Orchestra. Skates optional.
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Copyright © 2014 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
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Just great photos and memorabilia! Thanks so very much for your efforts and presenting these.
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Thank you, Jeanette!
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[…] provided a theme for a showing of autumn clothes Tuesday noon by A. Harris & Company, at the Century Room. … A collection of dinner and evening dresses stressed the importance of drama and glamour after […]
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1949. Shop Neiman’s. Have lunch at Century Room, Adolphus Hotel. See ice show. Or lunch at the A.Harris tea room, have famous finger sandwich luncheon plate, watch style show as models sashay through. Go to movie at Majestic. See organ rise from floor! Bob Hope was there promoting Sorrowful Jones. Another Dallas memory: the Freedom Train and President Harry Truman on the same day.VERY COLD DAY. Freedom Train carrying historical documents…..the US CONSTITUTION and probably the DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE…on railroad siding at FairPark. EVERY school child in north Texas braved the cold and stood patiently in line for hours to view the national treasures. A motorcade carrying President Harry Truman was there..perhaps Pres.Truman made an appearance at the Adolphus.
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A wonderful place. I have wonderful memories as child . Sitting by ice rink and the glamous skaters. Once in while I’ve would fly up and touch me. Wish there was something as classy to take my grandchildren . I was chosen several times to be interviewed on stag
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[…] Will Dallas ever be as languidly sophisticated as it was in the champagne-and-dancing days of the Adolphus? […]
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My father, Manuel Del Toro, was the male lead of the ice show at the Adolphus Hotel for several years in the late 1940’s & into the 50’s.
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[…] this period of the Main Street entrance to the Adolphus Hotel. That cool 1936 deco sign for the Century Room is great (even though it looks a little out of place next to the overly ornate early-20th-century […]
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In the mid 1940’s my parents would bring my sister & I with them to the Century room once a month. We rode the trolley there & back home. My parents always had a table next to the dance floor. When mom & dad danced the floor would clear for them. They were awesome & beautiful to watch. Then dad danced with each of us girls. Is there any chance of pictures from some of those times? Thank you, Shirley Campbell Murphrey email: shirleymurphrey@yahoo.com
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What lovely memories. If I come across anything, I will certainly let you know. Thank you, Shirley!
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Thank you for your kind response. I’m 84 and those were one of many happy memories from my childhood. Dad had returned from WWII & we did lots of joyous things.
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[…] While I took some liberties with my 1948 Dallas, the Adolphus Hotel is the real deal. (I shared about it in my first book, A GIANT MURDER, too.) They really did have ice skating shows in their Century Ballroom in the 1940s and 50s. And the dance floor really did glide back over the ice for dancing after the shows were over. You can learn more about it here: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/10/26/century-room/ […]
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[…] While I took some liberties with my 1948 Dallas, the Adolphus Hotel is the real deal. (I shared about it in my first book, A GIANT MURDER, too.) They really did have ice skating shows in their Century Ballroom in the 1940s and 50s. And the dance floor really did glide back over the ice for dancing after the shows were over. You can learn more about it here: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/10/26/century-room/ […]
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[…] While I took some liberties with my 1948 Dallas, the Adolphus Hotel is the real deal. (I shared about it in my first book, A GIANT MURDER, too.) They really did have ice skating shows in their Century Ballroom in the 1940s and 50s. And the dance floor really did glide back over the ice for dancing after the shows were over. You can learn more about it here: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/10/26/century-room/ […]
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[…] While I took some liberties with my 1948 Dallas, the Adolphus Hotel is the real deal. (I shared about it in my first book, A GIANT MURDER, too.) They really did have ice skating shows in their Century Ballroom in the 1940s and 50s. And the dance floor really did glide back over the ice for dancing after the shows were over. You can learn more about it here: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/10/26/century-room/ […]
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[…] You can learn more about it here: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/10/26/century-room/ […]
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