“Viking Ballroom was a great place for us girls to go. I don't think any of us ever went there with a date. It was a dress-up place and we usually went with several girls and had to take two streetcars.
The dance hall was upstairs and had a nice, dark atmosphere, unlike our high school dances. They had a professional dance band. Altho there were no name bands, they were still good. As Dot said, they had a cocktail lounge, which also had a nice atmosphere.
We had no trouble getting a drink— usually a highball. And remember I was 16 at the time. Never an I.D. check in those days. We really felt grown-up when we went in there and I can't remember ever getting more than one or two drinks.
Dot was right about an older crowd, but we never had any trouble for our one rule was: we came together and we go home together. If a gal broke that rule, we didn't go with her again. And it happened a couple of times.”
