Northwest Dancehalls
Hippodrome - Photo Courtesy of Rod Mael
The Hippodrome
aka
Touray Ballroom
Santafair
Federal Way, Washington
Some of the bands that rocked Touray Ballroom during the early years of NW rock and roll were:

Anthem
The Bards
Buffalo Clancy
Calliope
City Zu
Crystal Ship
Bearded Clam
Deacons
The Feelies
Front Page
Brian Hyland
Missing Linx
Penny Arcade
State Fair
White Heart

We used these at the Hippadrome (which was also known as Touray).  You will notice that Globe Ticket company in Tacoma misspelled Touray on the tickets.  What the heck we paid for several thousand of these and we were a low budget operation, so we used them anyway.
Rod  Mael, April 2005
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Penny Arcade and Bearded Clam at the Touray - 1968


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Last Update:  10 April 2005
Credits: Rod Mael, Ron Adee, Jim Sola