While looking for something completely different, I came across this ad from the 9-13-45 issue of the Grosse Pointe News. I know this particular building [[750 Alter) as a friend of mine lived across the street from it. It's a few short blocks from the Vanity Ballroom, and that's probably on purpose. I've heard of Ms. Arndt also, she danced on Broadway in the 1910s, and later, was a choreographer with the Detroit Ballet Company.

Was there a preponderance of dance schools around the Vanity? Was this area a hot-bed for dance culture in decades past? Were were the others? I'd love to hear some Detroit dance school. memories or other Detroit dance culture stories.