Palladium Ballroom

For the later downtown club, see Palladium (New York City).

The Palladium Ballroom was a New York City night club located at the northeast corner of Broadway and 53rd Street in Manhattan. it opened on March 15, 1946, and closed in 1966 after a 1961 drug raid led to the loss of its license to sell liquor.

The mambo craze in the United States that started in 1948 began at the Palladium Ballroom.

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