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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

The dance floor bounces because it was built on tires stuffed with horsehair, and Canada's most influential nightclub has been springing under dancers' feet since 1930. The Commodore Ballroom at 868 Granville Street in downtown Vancouver opened on 3 December 1930 as the Commodore Cabaret, an Art Deco supper club built by brewing heir George Conrad Reifel to designs by architect H.H. Gillingham, whose second-floor English-style ballroom - forty by eighty feet of sprung hardwood - gave the room an...