POPULAR DANCE HALL: This is what the Blue Moon Dance Hall on East Barre Road looked like in the late 1930s and early 1940s, before two local residents decided to buy it, cut it in half and make two ...
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Do The Twisted History: The Wicked World Of 1930s Dance Marathons
In the bleak years of the Great Depression, when dreams were cheap and bread wasn’t, America found its strangest form of escape—dance marathons. What began as lighthearted endurance contests turned ...
Despite its libertine reputation, San Francisco was among the first to crack down on a degrading, sometimes-deadly craze that was sweeping much of a starved nation during the Great Depression: ...
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