Word: brecker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roseland was started by a Philadelphia accountant named Louis Brecker, who had a passion for dancing and a simple ambition to make a million dollars. His partner was a Pottsville, Pa. brewer named Frank D. Yuengling. Brecker had decided that the public wanted cheap but respectable dance halls. Brecker's first Roseland, in Philadelphia, repaid his investment in six months...