Mexico City : Colorful dresses and feather hats: Time seems to stand still in the city's ballrooms

The name glitters in silver letters on the gray low-rise building: "Los Angeles".

Mexico City : Colorful dresses and feather hats: Time seems to stand still in the city's ballrooms

The name glitters in silver letters on the gray low-rise building: "Los Angeles". Below it is the front door with a red border, behind which everything that is important outside is dissolved. Age, money and origin are irrelevant; even the passage of time seems to have stopped – the legendary dance hall in Mexico City has existed almost unchanged since 1937. Between delicate metal chairs, marble tiles and red curtains, eras long past blur with the movements of the dancers, creating a feeling of longing and melancholy.

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