The Honeymoon Lane Dance Land was located on West 47th Street (between Broadway and 7th Avenue). It was known as a taxi-dance ballroom, a place of male entertainment where women were paid by men to dance with them for a determined amount of time until the buzzer sounded, each dance usually lasting about one minute in duration. Taxi dancers were paid half the price of the dance ticket along with any other items the patrons thought to give them such as nylons, jewelry, dresses or cash. These women were not technically “women of the night” but a sort of “intermediate” class of female worker paid for her erotic services. Taxi-dance ballrooms were popular from about the 1920s on for dating as well as dancing.
The Honeymoon Lane Dance Land was on ground level below Paddy’s 7-11, a 24 hour pool hall, enormously popular during the time period in which these images were taken. “During the 1950s and into the 60s, it was where a lot of really, really, really sort of monstrously talented pool players from all over the country would come and hang out and gamble for some pretty high stakes” – players like Jersey Red, Three-Fingered Gus, Wagon Head (a player who always wagged his head when he shot), New York Blackie, Joey with Glasses, and Bicycle Charlie.
Here's the link...
http://www.queensmuseum.org/blog/?p=320
was Weenie Beenie's pool room,
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