Dance marathons were a seedy, exploitative Bay Area craze that SF's women helped stop
Dance marathons were a seedy, exploitative Bay Area craze that SF's women helped stop FacebookTwitterEmail A group photo of contestants at Emeryville's walkathons, which employed 50 people including four nurses, a dental unit and orchestra musicians.Courtesy of Ray Raineri 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: competitive endurance dancing. Dance marathons, also called walkathons to avoid legal and moral scrutiny, were essentially the Netfl...
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