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Shenandoah: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 10:11am.
1938. Maher's Dance Hall in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, showing orchestra platform and dancers. (Note the stag line and that two of the couples are girl-girl.) View full size. 3x4 safety negative by Sheldon Dick. Twelve years after this picture was taken, the photographer, son of mimeograph magnate A.B. Dick, would meet a violent end along with his wife in a tragic murder-suicide.
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Maher's Dance Hall
Submitted by Joe Manning on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 8:54pm.
According to my research on the census, and several other sources, the dance hall was owned by Patrick James Maher, who was born in 1878. He owned a hotel, restaurant and dance hall, perhaps all at the same location.
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