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Magic-City

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113: 144: 129: 81:) at Magic-City Dancing, an immense dance-hall on the Rue de l'Universite, near the Eiffel Tower. ... Between 1922 and 1939, thousands of men, most costumed and many in extravagant female drag, attended the balls at Magic-City every year. 'On this night,' wrote a journalist in 1931, 'all of Sodom's grandsons scattered throughout the world...seem to have rebuilt their accursed city for an evening. The presence of so many of their kind makes them forget their abnormality.' 20: 98:, who photographed the events, wrote of an "immense, warm, impulsive fraternity" at Magic-City, saying "The cream of Parisian inverts was to meet there, without distinction as to class, race or age. And every type came, faggots, cruisers, chickens, old queens, famous antique dealers and young butcher boys, hairdressers and elevator boys, well-known dress designers and drag queens..." 101:
Magic-City was closed by the authorities on February 6, 1934, and in 1942 the building was bought by the government and turned over to Paris-Télévision, which began broadcasting there in 1943.
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The emblematic event of homosexual life in Paris in the inter-war years was a series of masked balls held annually during Carnival on
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in Paris was located in Magic-City. The venue was known for its "
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Shoot the Chute
Pont de l'Alma
Eiffel Tower
rue de l'Université
drag
balls
Mardi Gras
Shrove Tuesday
Lent
Brassaï
Algerian tirailleur (soldier) at Magic City.
tirailleur
La Cascade, 1913.
Ferris wheel, 1913.
Magic City - Paris 7e Constructions détruites
Magic-City
L'encyclopédie du Tango - Magic City


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Amusement parks in Paris
Defunct amusement parks in France

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