Pla-Mor Ballroom Menu [signed by Frankie Masters]

Lincoln, NE: np, 1947. Offset on cardstock, with holograph signature on cover. [4] pp. 8 x10 in. Very good, with light horizontal lines from folding into thirds, discoloration on the lower right edge of exterior recto, and light discoloration commensurate with age. Item #6734

Dinner menu for Pla Mor, the largest ballroom of the Midwest in the 1940s, signed by prominent big band leader Frankie Masters.

Open since 1929, the ballroom hosted many big band legends such as Count Basie, Glenn Miller, and Harry James; it remains active today. Verso of menu promotes a weekly “Waltz Night,” a series of concerts, notably one by Frankie Masters, as well as some other shows including an “All American Speed Derby of 1947, a streamlined endurance contest.”

Rare trace of a regional hub of jazz and big band music.

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