Cain's Ballroom was built in 1924 to serve as a garage for one of Tulsa's founders, Tate Brady. In 1930 Madison W. "Daddy" Cain purchased the building and named it Cain's Dance Academy. The academy was the site of the Texas Playboy's first regular radio broadcast where they continued to play regularly. In 1976 the building was changed hands again. Larry Schaeffer purchased the building and as before the name was changed to Cain's Ballroom. In 1978 this place was one of the few venues to host the Sex Pistols in their only American tour. Cain's Ballroom has played host to such preformers as the Sex Pistols, Van Halen, The Ramones, Ted Nugent,and many more(Gazette). EMF activity and orbs have been seen in photographs taken at Cain's Ballroom. While walking through you can feel hot and cold spots, lights will go on and off. The investigation of Cain's Ballroom began on Novemember 3, 2008. The investigation team on sight was the sooner paranormal.
Cain's Ballroom has a legend of the floor being being spring loaded, which means having automobile springs under the place. When John Wooley (a freelance writer) preparing a new book on Cain's with co author Brett Bingham. As he looked into this he was sadly proven that this legend was only a legend. The legend has been passed down as cain's being a spring loaded dance floor with many people dancing their lifes away. When the Rodgers family had dug it up there was no evidence of it being spring loaded. This legend turned into being just a legend, but for many years it enjoyed people from all over the world coming in and dancing their night away (These walls: Cain's Ballroom).
Cain's Ballroom is filled with many famous faces whose picture is still hanging on the walls today. These portraits are lined up on the wall showing who made Cain's so famous and popular. Bob Wills, Roy Rodgers, Tex Ritter, Ernest Tubb and others. These faces stare down eerily from their positions along the walls. These faces have seen a little bit of everything here from musical genius to unalterated noise, violence, drunken brawls and even a handful of people who found the loves of their lives while walking the ballroom's timeworn boards(Taylor). This place is legendary for so many reasons, and there are people who believe that the faces staring down from the walls are not the only presences who watch over things here. There are many people who believe the place is haunted, haunted by memories and echoes from the past, a time when music and perhaps even life, was simpler(Taylor)
Kalamazoo Gazette "Haunted USA: Cain's Ballroom" May 1, 2009 online database, MLive.com
web. 26 October 2011 http://web.mlive.com/
"These Walls: Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa" journal record, the (oklahoma city, OK) July 31,2009 literature resource center. EBSCOHOST tarrant county college library data base
Fort worth Tx.web.24 october 2011
http://web.ebscohost.com/
Troy Taylor "Cain's Ballroom History & Hauntings of the Tulsa legend" September 30, 2004 online database
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