Among the famous orchestra leaders who played at the Aragon Ballroom in the big band era of the 1930s and 1940s was Lawrence Welk, who went on to have a successful television career as star of the highly popular Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. Welk credited people like Lloyd and Madalene Meyers with keeping ballroom dancing alive in the United States. He is shown here (left) talking with the Meyers in 1969.
