![]() In their heyday on a Saturday night, half a dozen remotes filled Chicago’s air simultaneously, providing free advertising for the venues and creating new fans for the bands playing there. WMBB in suburban Homewood even established studios at the Trianon for a short period in 1926, claiming that the call-sign stood for “World’s Most Beautiful Ballroom.” Remotes were regular features on Chicago stations KYW, WBBM, WCFL, WENR, WGES, WGN, WJKS (later WIND), and WMAQ by the late twenties. ![]() ![]() Radio played a major role in the success of both the Aragon and Trianon as well as their Chicago competitors - the White City Ballroom, Midway Gardens, the Beachwalk at the Edgewater Beach Hotel were just a few of the largest. The Karzas brothers, who built both showplaces, shuttered the Trianon nine years earlier and planned to convert the Moorish-styled Aragon, that could accommodate 5,000 dancers, into a roller skating rink. The Aragon Ballroom on Chicago’s north side was about to join it’s south side twin, the Trianon, and close its doors for dancing. It was a weekend to remember - February 7, 8 and 9, 1964.
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