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Hot-Footing It Up to the Bar: Dance Hall Recipes for Some Favorite Cooling Cocktails
Tom Collins
2 oz gin
1 oz lemon or lime juice
1 tsp simple syrup or sugar
Soda water
Shake gin, juice and syrup with cracked ice. Strain into a chimney glass filled with ice. Top off with soda water. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and an orange wheel.
Rob Roy
2 oz scotch
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1 dash angostura bitters
Stir with cracked ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
Planter's Punch
2 oz dark rum
1 oz lemon juice
1 dash orange juice
1 dash simple syrup
Shake with cracked ice. Strain into a large goblet filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Gin Fizz
2 oz gin
1 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
Soda water
Shake gin, syrup and juice with cracked ice. Strain into a chilled wineglass. Top off with chilled soda water. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Sidecar
1-1/2 oz brandy
3/4 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz lemon juice
Shake with cracked ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
And for the morning after ...
Ramos Fizz
1-1/2 oz gin
2 tbsp cream
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1 tbsp powdered sugar
3 or 4 drops orange-flower water
1 fresh egg white
Soda water
Shake all ingredients except soda water with cracked ice. Strain into a wine goblet. Top off with chilled soda water. Garnish with a flower blossom.
(Source: Harrington, Paul, and Laura Moorehead. Cocktail, the Drinks Bible for the 21st Century. New York: Viking, 1998.)
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During the Big Band era, Bay Area dance halls were bursting at the seams with enthusiastic revelers, especially the Ali Baba Ballroom at 115 West Grand Ave. in Oakland. Opened as the Persian Gardens in 1933, the building was decorated in an ornate Arabian art theme and featured the only permanent house band in the Bay Area -- Sid Hoff and His Orchestra. Upon entering the two-tiered palace, visitors dropped their ticket stubs in a treasure chest for a nightly drawing of cash prizes. Mounting a set of carpeted stairs, they would arrive at a 10,000-square-foot polished oak dance floor -- one of the largest on the West Coast. The Ali Baba featured theme nights and mood lighting -- red for Latin numbers, blue for waltzes -- and a well-known nook nicknamed the "make-out corner" by its frequenters. The Ali Baba was the West Coast's last remaining ballroom, operating all the way through the disco years of the 1970s, until Oakland ordered it to shut its doors in 1981. Patrons tried to save the historic ballroom by staging "dancing picket lines" in front of the building, but the city soon tore it down.
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