In the early 1900s, New York City’s Walhalla Hall, in the Lower East Side’s 10th ward, was the community’s main civic center and the site of weddings, dances, and union meetings. Residents of this teeming, destitute neighborhood, were glad to escape from daily poverty into the hall’s ornate interior for a few hours of animated talk, diverting entertainment, and lively company. Read more about the Lower East Side at the turn of the last century in On the Shore (see NOVELS).
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