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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

The dance floor rides on rockers and ball bearings - dancers describe it as floating on clouds, and it may be the last of its kind in America. The Crystal Ballroom, at 1332 West Burnside Street in Portland, opened in January 1914 as Ringler's Cotillion Hall and has been making the city move for over a century. The origin is delightfully scandalous: dance instructor Montrose Ringler built the third-floor hall in an era when Portlanders could still be arrested for dancing the tango, and the Polic...