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It was also one of the most important venues for the burgeoning rock-music scene in Minnesota in the 1950s and 1960s. [2] The ballroom was one of the final stops (January 28, 1959) on the infamous, ill-fated "Winter Dance Party", the Buddy Holly-led tour which ended in the plane crash that killed Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. The ...
Set in a residential neighborhood on Bloomington's near-south-side, the three-story yellow brick mansion comprises 36 rooms in an Italianate villa style. The mansion's lot includes an 1872 wood house, a barn and stable, privies , a foaling shed, carriage barn , and a flower and ornamental cutting garden."Sarah's Garden", the Victorian cut ...
Bloomington: 7,000 1921 Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts 1,200 June 11, 2006 SeatGeek Stadium: Bridgeview: 28,000 March 2, 1963 State Farm Center: Champaign: 15,500 1969 Foellinger Great Hall: 2,058 November 3, 1923 Memorial Stadium (University of Illinois) 60,670 August 15, 1904 Ravinia Pavilion: Highland Park: 3,350 1926 Aragon ...
The Champion Ballroom Academy (founded April 1990) is a dance studio in San Diego, California. Its main specialties are social partner-dancing , competitive ballroom dance (aka. Dancesport ) and the Latin-dance -based aerobic program Core Rhythms.
The Met Center was an indoor arena that stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States, a suburb of Minneapolis. The arena, which was completed in 1967 by Minnesota Ice, just to the north of Metropolitan Stadium, seated 15,000. It was the home of the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1993.
The new Bloomington High School at (8900 Queen Ave. S., Bloomington MN 55431) with the adjacent Bloomington Stadium, was renamed Abraham Lincoln Senior High School in 1965 when a second high school, John F. Kennedy Senior High School opened. The original location, then known as the "annex", served as the tenth grade school for 1000 sophomores ...
Illinois State Redbirds (2021–present) Bloomington Bison ( ECHL ) (2024–) Grossinger Motors Arena [ 7 ] (formerly known as U.S. Cellular Coliseum and simply the Coliseum [ 7 ] ) is an arena in downtown Bloomington , Illinois .
George's Ballroom was a ballroom in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States that was built in 1947 and became a popular spot for young couples reuniting after World War II. Performers such as Lawrence Welk , The Andrews Sisters , Glenn Miller and the Six Fat Dutchmen all played there, and in its heyday it was an important center for big bands and ...