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1. Bailing Out a Ballroom Bailing Out a Ballroom August 8, 2006 The owner of the El Torreon building located at 3101 Gillham Plaza has decided to stop the all-ages live music venue shows that were being held there. The 32,000-square-foot building with a historic second-floor...
2. Cowtown Music Cowtown Music March 9, 2008 Feature article about the Cowtown Ballroom, located in the former El Torreon ballroom at 3109 Gillham Road in Kansas City, Missouri. The Cowtown Ballroom opened July 1971 and closed Sept. 16, 1974. It...
3. Dance Halls Dance Halls
4. Death of Robert Rhoades Death of Robert Rhoades January 21, 1956 Obituary for Robert Rhoades, 76, who played professional baseball for the Cleveland Indians from 1903 to 1909 and for the Kansas City Blues until he retired in 1913. Rhoades also built and operated the...
5. El Torreon Dance Hall El Torreon Dance Hall 1989 Frontal view; located at Gilliam Plaza and 31st Street.
6. Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p461 Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1950, Page p461 1909-1950 A portion of Kansas City from E. 31st Street south to E. Linwood Boulevard and from McGee Street east to Gillham Road, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to...
7. Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1957, Page p461 Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 4, 1909-1957, Page p461 1909-1957 A portion of Kansas City from E. 31st Street south to E. Linwood Boulevard and from McGee east to Gillham Road, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with...
8. The Last Dance The Last Dance March//1980 Stories of the two major ballrooms of the city, once located at 31st and Wyandotte Streets (the Pla-Mor) and at 3101 Gillham Plaza (El Torreon), popular as dance halls in the 1920s-1940s with some of the...