Designed by architect Yang Xiyu Chung, the casino is known as the "No.1 Yuefu in the East". This building has three floors. The ground floor is the kitchen and storefront. The second floor is the dance floor and banquet hall. The largest dance floor is over 500 square meters. The floor of the dance floor is supported by car steel plates, which will cause the feeling of shaking when dancing. Around the big dance floor, there is a small dance floor that can be divided at will, which can be used for both dancing and tryst. The ballroom on the second floor is completely open, allowing thousands of people to dance at the same time. The room is also equipped with air conditioning and heating, and the furnishings are luxurious. The third floor is the hotel, and the top floor has a huge cylindrical glass fiber reinforced plastic tower. When the dancers are ready to leave, the waiter can type the car number or other codes of the guests on the tower, and the driver can see it from a distance and drive to the door of the ballroom.
After the casino was built, it was rented to a Frenchman. According to the lease contract, Paramount boss draws according to the number of guests, and the French stipulate that all dancers should bring their own partners, which is extremely expensive, which makes Paramount lose a lot. Soon, "Paramount" dismissed the French, changed hands and recruited dancers from the society. At that time, the monthly income of dancers was as high as 3 thousand to 6 thousand yuan, which was more than ten times that of ordinary staff.
194 1 After the Pacific War broke out, a dancer named Chen was shot dead by the Japanese in the ballroom because she refused to dance for the Japanese. 1954, Paramount was taken over by relevant government departments due to serious losses. The original ballroom main building was converted into Hongdu Theater, and other ancillary buildings were converted into shopping malls. Later, it was changed to Hongdu Cinema. In June 1990, 1 1, the canopy at the entrance of the cinema collapsed due to disrepair, killing a pedestrian. It was ordered to suspend business for rectification. The current address is 2 18 Yuyuan Road.
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