The neighborhood's most important street - 86th Street - was lovingly called "Sauerkraut Boulevard" and hosted many German-American establishments, ranging from coffee shops and restaurants to dance halls.
Jukeboxes blared in country stores converted to dance halls for the pleasure of a million recruits.
Although he still squires dates to dance halls, Mr. Brotman never married.
As Alf was often away at sea, Julia started going out to dance halls.
Julia had started going out to dance halls in 1942, and met a Welsh soldier named 'Taffy' Williams who was stationed in the barracks at Mossley Hill.
One of the meanings in French of musette refers to an 18th-century pastoral dance, while the bal musette before World War II referred to dance halls.
Although the typical picture of the skinhead is boots and braces, the style changed in the evening when the skinhead went to dance halls and clubs.
He wore suits to dance halls.
For much of the rest of the movie, she tows André from gambling parlors to dance halls as she secures the money he needs, chain-smoking all the way.
"Some people are reduced to going around to dance halls and trying to make some money snapping pictures," she said.