Crystal Ballroom

Yeah, they did, but that wasn't for...

Oh, that was my second Standing O. I did the Crystal Ballroom.

That was the first time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So she's been hosting the Portland Erotic Ball for, like I said, like 20 years.

It's all three floors of the Crystal Ballroom.

So like the music venue as well as like the smaller dance rooms and everything.

Tickets are... $69.

Have you ever been? I never have.

And I will not be going to that.

So they do that and they do like a huge blowout New Year's Eve party at the Crystal Ballroom as well, which I think is also kind of like an erotic ball.

It's funny because you don't think of like McMinimins as being like horny.

Um, And I think over time, things evolved.

We ended up adding a historian at a certain point around the time when we opened the Crystal Ballroom in downtown Portland.

And then that kind of led to this research about the history of the location, the people who were involved in it, the people who built it, the challenges that they faced there.

the bands that played there or, you know, like we hear where I'm at Kennedy school here today in the Cypress room.

Yeah.

It's been, it, it's been pretty eyeopening for me.

You know, I feel like really, you know, connected to the company I've worked in it for, you know, even like in high school and college, I had jobs in the company, you know, selling tickets at the crystal ballroom or helping out in the history department, uh, all that, that kind of stuff.

And, um, I feel like I know a lot and working on this podcast and doing these interviews with people who you've had relationships with for years and who I've known forever.

At the movie theater.

Yeah, at, uh, what's it called? Uh, Crystal Ballroom?

The Crystal Ballroom, baby.

They got that, like, uh-

Weird