The Lucky Star is back in business-at least through February and just in time for Valentine's Day. The fourteen piece Moon Light Sonata orchestra plays the big band sounds of the thirties and forties. Dinner is also offered on these Thursday evenings on 54th Street and University.
On warm evenings, you can take the #7 bus from downtown San Diego and the bus drops you off in the front. Or get on the #8 Freeway and get off on State College. A few nifty turns to the right will also get you there. It is only ten dollars.
Balboa Park Seniors will bring Valentines Day in with a swing. The Balboa Bay Club charges only three dollars that includes free dips and coffee Usually I am inside the lobby playing a few ditties like In the Good Old Summer Tine and others. This Thursday, I will play a medley of Beatles' favorites including Yesterday, Michelle, and a Hard Days Night. The live music begins at one o'clock and ends at three thirty. After the dance, you can take your love to the Prado for early bird eats and drinks. The organ bells will announce the time
The Balboa Club offers dancing lessons for five dollars every Friday and Sunday evenings. There are beginning, intermediate or advanced lessons. The instructors are patient with you. Each month a different dance is featured.Over one hundred show up on these week end nights.
The Town and Country Hotel offers dancing every Friday or Saturday, unless there is a big event-so call before attending.
Over two hundred showed up at Balboa Park's Bay Club for dancing lessons on Sunday. Membership is twenty dollars a year. It entitles one to two lessons on Friday and Sundays. Tonight they taught the waltz the first thirty minutes and the Tango for their second.
It is a slam dunk for me to get there since I park my car at the Old Town Commuter Lot overnight-for free. The Green Line Trolley get me to my car and I take the Five to downtown and get off on Tenth Avenue. I make three left turns, first on A Street, then Park Blvd and finally President's Way. The lessons begin at about seven o'clock and last till eight thirty. There is free dancing afterwards. The fee for one night is five dollars.
The Stardust, off of El Cajon offers lessons every night. on El Cajon Blvd offers lessons every night. The Champion Ballroom on Fifth Street offers dancing every Saturday Evening. The Town and Country Hotel has a quartet every Friday and Saturday evening.
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