Northwest Dancehalls

Salem Armory Auditorium
Salem, Oregon

Salem Armory was THE location for most EJD sponsored concerts and dances from about 1963 to well into the early 80's.

Alex Taylor The Allman Brothers The Animals Atomic Rooster Bachman Turner Overdrive  The Bards Big Brother and the Holding Company The Box Tops Breakaways The Buckinghams Paul Butterfield Blues Band Blue Mountain Eagle Buddy Miles Express The Bumps Canned Heat Capitol Street Balloon Chaen Reaction Chessmen Choice Che-vels Collage Review The Control Boys Count 5 Country Joe McDonald Curved Air Dave Clark Five Deep Purple John Denver Dino Desi and Billy Don and The Goodtimes The Doobie Brothers The Doors

Electric Light Orchestra Fashion Ambulance Fleetwood Mac Fragile Lime Gary Lewis and The Playboys Gentlemen Wild The Grass Roots Norman Greenbaum Guess Who The Heavy Company High Voltage James Gang It's a Beautiful Day Jane's Addiction John Baldry Lawe Little John and the Merry Men Live Five Liverpool 5 Lovin' Spoonful Malo The Mamas & Papas The Marksmen Mary's Danish The Moguls Morning Reign Mountain The Mustangs The New Yorkers Nirvana Paul Revere and the Raiders Pearl Jam

The Pied Pipers Pink Floyd Premiers Billy Preston Red Hot Chili Peppers Reunion The Rolling Stones Savoy Brown Seventh Resemblance Blues Band Shangri Las Shindogs Sky Pilot Sonny & Cher Spectrum Springfield Rifle Steam Steely Dan Steppenwolf Steve Miller Sugarloaf Superband Swingin' Medallians Thirteenth Story Three Dog Night Merrilee and the Turnabouts Tyme The Untouchables Vanilla Fudge War Wishbone Ash The Yardbirds Youngbloods

I'm in that photo, dead center about 8 feet back from the stage. WOW! What a crazy night!   Girls screaming, passing out, getting pulled up on stage. Geesh!!

Llyn M., January 2006

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Atomic Rooster (w/ Carl Palmer, later of ELP) warmed up the crowd for Deep Purple at their Salem Armory show some time in 1969-70.

Don Hoover, April 2011

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Last Update:  29 April 2012
Credits:  Dave Higginbotham, Sandy Weedman, Dave Columbus, Paul Starkey, Tom Culhane, Roger Kasner, Ryan Daily, Ken Onstad, Rick Sutter, Llyn M., John Gordon, Lars Van Valkenburg, Tom Drechsler, David Zeit, Jodi Heatherington, Grant Beardsley, Todd Miller, Randy Bryson, Don Hoover, Rich Dickson, Randy C. Lawrence, Bob Stoutenburg, Doug Morrison, Roger Ooms