The Rendezvous Ballroom was a large dance hall built in 1928, located on the beach of Balboa Peninsula in Orange County , Southern California, between Los Angeles and San Diego . The 1920s were the beginning of the heyday of public dancing to the music of popular bands and orchestras, and large ballrooms were built in most urban areas, and even on Catalina Island , 26 miles off the California coast.
7-508: No expense was spared in the construction of the ballroom, which was a city block long, and half a block wide. It featured reinforced concrete walls, a " floating " hard wood floor and a tile roof. After a fire in 1935 the ballroom was rebuilt with an arched roof supported by sectional girders of wood in a cross pattern, the same as used in the nearby blimp hangars for the Marine Corps. The Rendezvous Ballroom caught fire again in 1966, and
14-430: A glass fibre , felt or cork layer for sound insulation with neoprene pads holding up a laminate floor. There is a gap between the floating floor and the walls to decouple them and allow for expansion; this gap is covered with skirting boards or mouldings . Floating floors as used in sound studios can be either just larger versions of the domestic variety, or much larger constructions with slabs of concrete to keep
21-588: A few hundred to a capacity crowd of 4,000 on Saturday nights. When Dale left for the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in 1962, attendance at the Rendezvous continued to grow with bands like The Beach Boys, The Challengers, The Righteous Brothers and others. 33°36′06″N 117°54′02″W / 33.60161941267734°N 117.90061873745951°W / 33.60161941267734; -117.90061873745951 Floating floor A floating floor
28-436: Is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is often used synonymously with laminate flooring . It is applied now to other coverings such as floating tile systems and vinyl flooring in a domestic context. A floating floor is a type of flooring installation method where the individual floorboards or tiles are not directly attached to
35-480: The resonance frequency down. The manufacture of integrated circuits uses massive floating floors with hundreds of tons in weight of concrete to avoid vibration affecting mask alignment. Floating floors are one of the requirements for the THX high-fidelity sound reproduction standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems. While floating floors add to
42-430: The sub-floor. Instead, they are laid over a thin underlayment or foam padding, allowing them to "float" above the sub-floor. A sprung floor is a special type of floating floor designed to enhance sports or dance performance. In general though the term refers to a floor used to reduce noise or vibration . A domestic floating floor might be constructed over a subfloor or even over an existing floor. It can consist of
49-417: Was never rebuilt. The site now has beachfront condominiums. Among the notables who played at the Rendezvous was Stan Kenton , jazz band leader, who originated a TV show from there in 1957-58 and recorded the albums Rendezvous with Kenton (1957) and Back to Balboa (1958) at the venue. The ballroom was closed until surf-rock guitarist Dick Dale began performing there in 1960. Attendance grew from
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