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Coronavirus shutdown threatens Mexico's storied dance halls
Read full article: Coronavirus shutdown threatens Mexico's storied dance halls(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)MEXICO CITY The Salon Los Angeles had been crowded every weekend since 1937 with couples twirling to mambo, cha-cha-cha, salsa and danzon. The storied California Dancing Club where taxi dancers still plied their trade up until the March shutdown pledges wistfully to return. The owner of another dance hall, the Salon La Altena, died during the pandemic. Nieto says it would be a double tragedy if the Salon Los Angeles succumbs to this most antisocial of pandemics, which has brought night life in Mexico's capital largely to a halt. If this tradition of the Salon Los Angeles were to be lost, it would be very serious, right?