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Taborian Hall - Arkansas
Flag & Banner - Dreamland Ballroom
800 West
Ninth Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: (501) 375-7633/Fax: (501) 375-7638
Latitude:
34.7413558960001 Longitude: -92.2802429199999
Email:
kmccoy@flagandbanner.com
Listed on
the National Register September 15, 1981
Store open
Monday - Friday 8 - 5:30, Saturday 10 - 4
So we
will start this tour with the outside....beautiful grand old
building. I have drove by it hundreds of times and it
always looks so perky with all those patriotic flags. So I
wonder ... what's in there? But then I think, well, it's a
flag company. I don't really need any flags...maybe one of
these days. Well one of these days came this weekend and,
boy, was I in for a surprise.
The
building (4 stories) was originally built as the Arkansas
headquarters for the International Order of Twelve Knights and
Daughters of Tabor. Later, after hard economic times, it
held offices, businesses, a pool hall, pharmacy, a camera club
and was even used by the U.S.O. (United
Service Organization) to motivate soldiers during the
war.
Well-known musician greats Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count
Basie, Arkansans Louis Jordan and Al Hibbler, Ray Charles, BB
Kind, Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James, Nat King Cole, Louis
Armstrong. Redd Foxx, and Sammy Davis have all played at the
Dreamland Ball Room and it was also the epicenter of social
activity: dances, socials, club meetings, formal group photos
and even Dunbar High School (Dunbar did not have a gymnasium)
basket ball games.
Knights
and Daughters of Tabor Pin
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The building doesn't look too bad on the outside but it has
been through some hard times.
As you can see from
this photograph, the building has come a looooong way.
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