Souvenir glass - BLUE MOON ballroom - vintage Wichita

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's a neat little piece of Wichita history. It's a souvenir glass from the "Blue Moon" ballroom, a large ba//room/nightclub which was located at 3401 South Oliver Street. If I remember my local history correctly, the Blue Moon was built about 1940, and burned to the ground about 1960. For years it was, as the glass says, "The Southwest's Swankiest Night Spot", w, according to a period phone book ad, you could "Dine & Dance to the strains of the Nation's Leading Orchestras." I haven't looked up much about the Blue Moon, but I believe it hosted mainly big band concerts, and may have had some country and early rock and roll acts as well (though I haven't been able to confirm this). I believe it was a venue very similar to the Cotillion, a ballroom still in operation in west Wichita, though the Blue Moon was bigger. A dear friend (who has since passed on) told me some high-school proms were held t My dad (also passed on), had vague memories about it (he'd moved to Wichita in 1959), and my mom refers to it as "that place on south Oliver that burned down', though she was watching two babies at the time and didn't get out much. The glass is about 4-3/4" tall, and a little over 2-1/2" wide at the mouth. T's no chips, cracks, stains, or cloudiness. It's just one of the few remaining pieces of an earlier time and place that fewer and fewer read more

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