{"id":532,"date":"2017-09-07T22:44:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T22:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2017-10-10T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T16:55:25","slug":"aragon-ball-room","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/aragon-ball-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Aragon Ball Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-533\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aragon-ballroom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-533\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aragon-ballroom.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary outside view of the Aragon Ballroom\" width=\"521\" height=\"313\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aragon-ballroom.jpg 521w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aragon-ballroom-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contemporary outside view of the Aragon Ballroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe title=\"Eddie Howard Aragon Ballroom 1940&#039;s\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p1uMqtF2TcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aragon_Ballroom_(Chicago)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Construction was completed in 1926. The Aragon was designed in the Moorish architectural style, with the interior resembling a Spanish village. Named for an autonomous community of Spain, the Aragon was an immediate success and remained a popular Chicago attraction throughout the 1940s. The Aragon&#8217;s proximity to the Chicago &#8216;L&#8217; (elevated railway) train provided patrons with easy access, and often crowds in excess of 18,000 would attend during each six-day business week. Each night, powerhouse radio station WGN broadcast an hour-long program from the hall to audiences throughout the Midwestern United States and Canada.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;The ceiling looked like the sky, the clouds moved across the stars.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CRMvdr3W8AAvBnd.jpg-large.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-534\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CRMvdr3W8AAvBnd.jpg-large.jpeg\" alt=\"Interior view of the Aragon Ballroom\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CRMvdr3W8AAvBnd.jpg-large.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CRMvdr3W8AAvBnd.jpg-large-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior view of the Aragon Ballroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom Cartmell writes that he wishes he were with Elaine and Stanley when they went to the Aragon Ballroom in August of 1943.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Wikipedia: &#8220;Construction was completed in 1926. The Aragon was designed in the Moorish architectural style, with the interior resembling a Spanish village. Named for an autonomous community of Spain, the Aragon was an immediate success and remained a popular Chicago attraction throughout the 1940s. The Aragon&#8217;s proximity to the Chicago &#8216;L&#8217; (elevated railway) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/aragon-ball-room\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aragon Ball Room<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions\/671"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}