Dance Halls and Last Calls

by Geronimo Trevino, III

Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance. Dance Halls and Last Calls explores over one hundred of these vintage dance halls and their communities through the eyes of artists who played there.

Genres: Music

273 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 2002

Reviews

[Jesse Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of nostalgia. I remember almost all within a hundred miles of here.

Trevino is a good musician but an even better writer. Wish he would write about playing in these halls. Playing while dodging beer bottles. Good stuff.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laredo-born Geronimo Trevino's book was an exhaustive research of those numerous places you might have zipped on past, or spent great evenings with significant others in years past -- as it was for me with several of the dance halls noted and photographed here.

Ever been there, done that? It's a nice escape-type book, despite its tame appearance. It kinda hit me like drinking a beer and dancing across some wood floor to some band that mixes Country and Rock like they do, or did, down here.

Geronimo, thanks for the memories from Round Top, San Antonio, La Grange, Swiss Alp, Austin County, Fredericksburg, and so many other places. Took me back to the time when the ex-wife was the girlfriend, and those days were OK.

I think I read this book in some part of 2006, but lived most of it in the '70s.