Hungarian foxtrot 1934: Marika - Adam Aston & H. Wars Orch.

Описание: Adam Aston & Orkiestra Henryka Warsa - Marika (Moja Marika spod Debreczyna) Fokstrot węgierski [My Marica From Debrecen - Hungarian Fox-Trot] Muz. J.& H. Rosner – Tekst: A. Jellin, Syrena-Electro 1934 (Polish)

NOTE: Polish artists duet from interwar Warsaw: Henryk Wars with his dance band and Adam Aston (singing) never fails. This elegant Polish-Hungarian foxtrot is accompanied by a slideshow composed of several most elegant prewar dance venues in Poland. Those were the days... Most of those places is now gone, forever. The chickest nightclub Adria in Warsaw was pierced by the German bomb, through all the building’s heigth down into the basement under the dancing floor… - and never rebuilt after the 2nd world war by the communist government, being in their opinion a damn relic of prewar rotten burgeoise world. Fashionable club Oaza in Wierzbowa street, across the National Opera Theatre, disappeared with all this part of the historical centre of old Warsaw, destroyed in 100 % by the Germans during the Warsaw Uprising of August-October 1944. Only the Theatre was rebuilt in its previous shape, while all other buildings were built up anew from the null. The same was the fate of the nightclub Gastronomia in Nowy Świat – the principal avenue of historical part of old Warsaw, destroyed in 100 % and rebuilt after the war in a more modern form.

In the 1980s, I had a unique chance to spend a 2 week holiday in a former upper-class seaside spa of Jurata, staying in a building of the former Café-Casino which had been erected in c. 1930 on the Baltic beach, just b y the sea. That really chic Art Deco pavillon was saved through the war and after the war was used for decades as the summer holiday centre for the elites of communist “entertainment establishment”. Also are gone, and never replaced by worthy successors, two ultra-modern nightclubs: Bodega and Café Melodyst, which had been active in through 1930s in a casino-like building called Szklany Pałac (The Glass Palace) located in a modern prewar Polish harbor city Gdynia, not far from the ancient port of Gdańsk... So, these are some of the stories about some buildings dedicated to jazz and ballroom dancing in pre-war Poland.