1953 Texas Inaugural Ball square dance program
(January 20, 1953)
The custom of having a square dance as part of the Inaugural Ball for the Texas Governor started in 1947; this is the program for the 1953 Inaugural, scheduled for 6:30 PM until midnight. The second page shows the extraordinary level of planning that went into the program; callers are asked to limit their tips to 3 minutes, and demonstration teams to 4 minutes, so each half hour slot had up to seven different items. This was at a time when callers were using named routines rather than improvising hash calls, so the program lists each caller, the name of the dance they're doing, and the tune.
Collection: Traditional western
Subjects: Transitional/Western 1950s
Tags: E. O. Rogers, Henry Hudson, Inaugural Ball, Les Gotcher, Lillie Lee Baker, Manning Smith, Texas
Subjects: Transitional/Western 1950s
Tags: E. O. Rogers, Henry Hudson, Inaugural Ball, Les Gotcher, Lillie Lee Baker, Manning Smith, Texas
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Lillie Lee Baker |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Henry Hudson - Texas fiddler |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Texas Square Dance Music - Henry Hudson |
| Item: Bob Sumrall - newspaper clippings | is related to | This Item |
Citation
“1953 Texas Inaugural Ball square dance program,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, http://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1942.
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1953 Texas Inaugural Ball square dance program
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Description
The custom of having a square dance as part of the Inaugural Ball for the Texas Governor started in 1947; this is the program for the 1953 Inaugural, scheduled for 6:30 PM until midnight. The second page shows the extraordinary level of planning that went into the program; callers are asked to limit their tips to 3 minutes, and demonstration teams to 4 minutes, so each half hour slot had up to seven different items. This was at a time when callers were using named routines rather than improvising hash calls, so the program lists each caller, the name of the dance they're doing, and the tune.
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January 20, 1953