Grande Ballroom Detroit to Feature the Wha? at Reunion

by Homeless T 2016-03-25: Waverly, Iowa. If you remember splendid times of ballroom dancing at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan--and harbor a desire to reexperience the days of less sophisticated means of brainwashing used 50 years by all known agencies--the FBI, the CIA, the Communist Collective for the Training of Youth Leaders, Young Americans for Freedom, and the Symbionese Liberation Army--your mind is truly a confused morass of misguided nostalgia. Where are the original bands of the Grande? Harry Lauder, Paul Whitefield, Benny Goodman, etc. had this ballroom swaying with depression area couples, dancing on a cloud as far back as 1934. 
My parents caught the act I was in, The Wha?, playing there in 1966. In 1967 I was dispatched to a military academy--so frightening was this new counter culture to my folks.

Russ Gibb, a schoolteacher who wanted more than the Standard Strands and Objectives for his students, reopened the Grande long after the first wave had passed out to sea. Nonetheless many will be in attendance.
PS This may be the swan song for a avis rara two-and-a-half score years gone. I will be flying in from wherever I may be in the world and renting the entire top floor of the former Marriot. Come on up!