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It’s New Year’s Eve in the 1930s and the Embassy Ballroom is alive with excitement. Dancers are twirling across 12,000 square feet of jarrah floor, jazz fills the air and the excitement of a brand-new year is in full swing.

Opened in 1928, the Embassy Ballroom was a big part of Perth’s dance band era and the place to be on New Year’s Eve, while it sat beside the magnificent Capitol theatre in William Street..

New Year’s Eve at the Embassy Ballroom, Temple Court in the 1930s. Courtesy of Museum of Performing Arts WA / His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth.

Jules Hutchison writes - I sang at the last performance. Shame on whoever decreed the wreckers ball.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -