By Robin Simon, Class of 1997
Editor’s note: Robin’s story originally appeared in CAC@Home. Docents and volunteers contributed twenty stories to CAC@Home this season. In case you missed them the first time, we will be posting th em on The Bridge in the following months. They are also available on the CAC website.
During these homebound days, I often have music from the 1930s and 1940s playing in the background–big band favorites from Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington and others.
If this was anytime between the mid-1920s and early 1960s, I would have been able to hear and dance to these bands and others live at the Aragon Ballroom.
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This is great! My parents had their first kiss as teens at the Aragon. That would have been around 1940. They loved to dance to the big bands and took the L from the south side to get there.