Palais Again

An advertisement at the rear of the Hammersmith Palais building, visible next to platform three at Hammersmith tube station on the Hammersmith And City line.

The mural shows two couples dancing, and reads:
PALAIS DE DANSE
THE TALK OF LONDON
HAMMERSMITH
TWICE DAILY
3-6 2'6
8-12 5'-

Last Friday's blip shows the front of the Palais now.

Abridged from wikipedia:

The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, later simply the Hammersmith Palais, was a ballroom and entertainment venue in London from 1919 to 2007. In 2009 the Hammersmith Palais was named by the Brecon Jazz Festival as one of 12 venues which had made the most important contributions to jazz music in the United Kingdom.

The Palais de Danse opened in 1919 to host ballroom dancing, and various kinds of dance bands, amongst which were the new jazz bands. It remained a popular dance venue from its start to the 1980s, but after that played host mostly to live pop music. For a period in the 1930s, part of the Palais site was also used as an ice rink, with the original London Lions ice hockey team using it as a base. On 21 January 2007, the Palais was condemned to be demolished. The venue closed in April 2007.

The Palais also had a secret, once used to make tanks during the war it was also used as a tram shed for Londons trams. The rails for the trams were still under the floor along with the pipes for the ice rink. Parts of the very well sprung dance floor has removable sections where you could clearly see all the tracks and pipes. During the 60 and 70's many of the house bands were: Joe Loss, Andy Ross (of Come Dancing Fame) Ken Mackintosh, Tony Evans, and Zodiac. Many Saturday nights in excess of 2000 people would visit the venue. One of the features was the huge revolving stage with a band on each side.