Kirsten Krauth
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I love looking at that because that's given me a lot of ideas.
Yeah, I didn't even know about that one.
So, yeah, I haven't read that yet.
A few bookstores have taken photos of it alongside almost a mirror, which is pretty beautiful.
And there's also a history of the ballroom by Dolores San Miguel.
And she was one of the people who ran the ballroom, who hired all the
who hired all the musicians.
It's probably the only book that traces the history.
She lives overseas now, but it's terrific because it's almost like an archive in itself of who played there and the scene in general and quite an honest account of the drugs and the sex and all of those things that accompanied that scene.
I think, yeah, the most important source.
You know, you could just go on there and say, you know, what was the name of the cough medicine that everyone used to drink instead of alcohol?
That's basically the place where I went to get archival material because it's, you know, a lot of these memories just exist, you know, in people's heads and they don't think about it until you ask a question.