LUNA PIER — The residents of Lakeside, Mich., were marking America’s 150th birthday in style 100 years ago.
The buzz was around a giant dance floor called Luna Pier, which was complete with a marble terrazzo floor and perched at the end of a boardwalk that went straight out into Lake Erie. It was opening July 3, 1926, as a site meant to bring people from miles around to have a good time during Prohibition.
“The most delightful place to dance with nothing but the moon and the stars above and the lulling surf underneath,” a full-page ad for the venue published in the July 1, 1926, edition of The Blade says…