When we first learned to ballroom dance in 1977, Disco had just hit the ballroom dance floors of the world. We took the Hustle dance that was Disco and learned the very difficult steps. They were hard to comprehend and the beat was difficult to manage. We did do it and each and every week, my mom would come over from her job with the State Of Maryland to be with the children. We would go to a dance hall called The Electric Circus on York Road near Towson University. We would eat a light dinner there and dance in between courses the Hustle dance. The music was nonstop and people got up to dance, sit down to eat or nosh and go back to dance again. The songs did not end, one blended into the other. They played a lot the Donna Summer hit disco song Love to Love You Baby practically all night long.
Those were the days when we were young and could dance for hours without injuring our feet or knees. Everyone was smiling and happy to be there and they had the disco ball ornaments turning around constantly from the ceiling. I loved the ball ornaments so much, I bought one and had it on a stand in my family room and loved to watch it revolve with its different bright colors moving too.
