The demise of Tacoma Park

 Some years ago when I was the president of the Tacoma Park board of directors, I worked with a woman who was getting a Ph.D. in history.  Her dissertation was on the role that dance halls played in society.  She had been told of the dance hall at Tacoma Park, and I helped her find people connected with it who she could interview.  People working with her at her university thought the dance hall should be designated a national historic site.  She started to collect information on its history.  However, she got a job as a professor in a New England university and I never heard from her or about her again.

While she was in South Dakota, we chatted a few times about the information she was collecting and local history.  I recall some