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Swing yore partner round 'n round (The Desert Magazine, 1944)
Author Oren Arnold describes square dancing in Arizona in the early 1940s:
"...A rock fireplace big enough to stand in was at one end of the room, and its blaze made dancing shadows everywhere. Indian blankets hung on the walls beside an austere…
"...A rock fireplace big enough to stand in was at one end of the room, and its blaze made dancing shadows everywhere. Indian blankets hung on the walls beside an austere…
Swing that Pretty Gal! - 1941 article
In the wake of the first trips by the Cheyenne Mountain Dancers, this 1941 article inThe Saturday Evening Post describesthe widespread passion for squares that is growing, and gives Lloyd Shaw credit for the revival:
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Steamboat Springs - magazine articles
Two magazine articles gave publicity to the new square dance festival in Steamboat Springs. Newsweek covered the first festival in its issue of August 28, 1950, and Collier's followed the next year (August 18, 1951) with a two-page color spread.View…
Sets in Order archive
This is an online archive of Sets in Order magazine, published by Bob Osgood starting in 1949, and its successor, Square Dancing. The complete run of the magazine was 444 issues. The host is the University of Denver's Penrose Library, home of the Bob…