{"id":25662,"date":"2023-04-18T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25662"},"modified":"2023-04-16T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T05:48:54","slug":"dance-with-me-henry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dance-with-me-henry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"dance with me, Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25664\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Worlds-Largest-Dance-Hall-1914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25664\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Worlds-Largest-Dance-Hall-1914-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">world&#8217;s largest dance hall in 1914 on Bois Blanc (White Wood) Island in Ontario<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. You may be surprised that in 1914, the world&#8217;s largest dance hall was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisblanccanada.com\/\">Canada<\/a>! The island, \u00a0a popular resort today, is a bit south of Windsor, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>This photo and the related story were discovered by my good friend and fellow photo-historian, George Dunbar. George writes, &#8220;I&#8217;d never before heard of this, the World&#8217;s Largest Dance Hall.&#8221;. More information and photos are here on the <a href=\"https:\/\/canadiangeographic.ca\/articles\/photo-exhibit-showcases-turn-of-the-century-canada\/\">Canadian Geographic web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The title for this post is a 1955 song sung here by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=58NVzNlN-Os\">Georgia Gibbs<\/a>. I can remember listening to the catchy tune on our old kitchen radio back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. You may be surprised that in 1914, the world&#8217;s largest dance hall was in Canada! The island, \u00a0a popular resort today, is a bit south of Windsor, Ontario. This photo and the related story were discovered by my good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dance-with-me-henry-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-25662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25667,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions\/25667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}