Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi-Dance Halls in Honolulu, 1935

In its 1936 issue, Social Process in Hawaii published “The Taxi-Dance Hall in Honolulu,” a heavily redacted version of a 48-page paper (RASRL Box A-3, Folder 97) written by two undergraduates for an introductory sociology course. Writers Victoria Lord and Alice W. Lee tackled the topic with energy and enthusiasm: on-site visits to seven of…