For many decades, what one saw when driving up the drive to The Cloud Room was the picture at right. From the 1930s, when a street car would take you from downtown Birmingham to this end of town, through the 1940s, and into the 1950s, thousands of people have fond memories of dancing night and day at The Cloud Room to the sounds of Big Bands. In the ‘40s the midnight “swing-shift” dances were held for the night-shift workers during World War II. In the ‘50s, almost everybody in Birming-ham swam at Cascade Plunge at least a time or two, listening to the sounds of rock‘n’roll coming through the Cloud Room walls.
Dancing at The Cloud Room has continued into the 21st Century with many dance groups still enjoying the spaciousness of the ballroom and the huge floating hard-wood dance floor. The present owner, Elk’s Lodge No.79, continues to maintain The Cloud Room, without changing its original charm.
THE CLOUD ROOM
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