One of our big entertainments in Topeka while Ray and I were dating was Meadow Acres. It was located just south of Topeka near the Topeka Country Club on U S Highway 75. I have lots of pictures of Ray and I attending because our friend Bill Furlong took pictures there. We saw Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey to name a couple. Also Xavier Cugat and Woody Herman.
A Topeka Couple had brought the land and built this huge dance hall. The couple who were responsible were Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Sperry. They brought a pasture and erected a modernistic ballroom. We heard Stan Kenton, Claude Thornhill, Henry Busse, Cab Calloway, Hal McIntyre, Gene Krupa, Carmen Calvallero. We never had Kay Kyser or Harry James. Mrs. Sperry handled all the business details of the dances and supervised the night's activities. Mr. Sperry made the contacts and then spent the night of the dance wandering around bleary eyed, Pictures were in Life magazine but mostly showing liquor in dry Kansas. Kansas was one place you could always get liquor.
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