ABSTRACT
The taxi-dance hall, like other institutions of the city, has its characteristic location. It finds its root in the central business district and the rooming-house area, near the residence of a majority of its regular patrons. Just as the “wonder ballrooms” or dance palaces in Chicago prosper only in the “brightlight centers” at considerable distance from the central business district, so the taxi-dance hall seems to flourish exclusively in the zone of furnished rooms and in the central business district. Map V, which shows the location of the unsuccessful and successful taxi-dance halls of Chicago, reveals that with but one possible exception all financially successful taxi-dance halls have been located in the Loop district itself, or well within the rooming-house area.
