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The Grande Ballroom: Detroit's Rock 'n' Roll Palace - Early, Leo, and Gibb, Foreword By Russ (Foreword by)
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In the 1920s, a jewel of Detroit entertainment arose on the Westside--the Grande Ballroom. The venue flourished under the ownership of infamous gambler Harry Weitzman and management of dance scion Paul Strasburg. The advent of rock "n" roll pushed the ballroom into hard times, but in 1966, local schoolteacher and disc jockey Russ Gibb resurrected it with the promise of live rock music. The new psychedelic ballroom style attracted scores of suburban baby boomers and helped launch the careers of local legends like the MC5, ...

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The Grande Ballroom: Detroit's Rock 'n' Roll Palace 2016, History Press

ISBN-13: 9781626197817

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