In nineteen sixty-eight, Bill Graham moved his operations to a dance hall called the Carousel Ballroom.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

It also included a ceremony to declare the Surf Ballroom a rock and roll landmark.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Mr. Mindon walked quickly past the ballroom where his wife danced with her friends.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Mister Mindon walked quickly past the ballroom where his wife danced with her friends.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

I haven't quite confirmed them yet, but probably a hotel ballroom-type scenario, black-tie event."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

But it's not on their housetop, or even outside. The Roof,as locals call it, is the Indiana Roof Ballroom.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The Roof Ballroom hung on for 30 years before the owners gave up and shut the doors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

And on six Sunday nights a year, ballroom dancers from as far away as St.Louis - two states away in Missouri - once again head to downtown Indianapolis to swing to the music of big bands and rekindle memories of long-ago dances and romances at the Roof.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25