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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 04:03:00

Built in 1924 by Tulsa entrepreneur W. Tate Brady as a car garage, the building at 423 North Main Street was purchased in 1930 by Madison W. "Daddy" Cain and christened Cain's Dance Academy, a dime-a-dance establishment where couples waltzed and Charlestoned for ten cents a lesson. On New Year's Night 1935, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys made their debut at Cain's, and the ballroom became the crucible of Western swing -- a revolutionary fusion of country, jazz, blues, big-band, rhumba, and jit...