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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
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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 Netflix dating show of that era. As an emcee entertained the audience with dancers’ biographies over live music, the couples danced, stumbled and dragged each other for weeks on almost no sleep in the pursuit of money and glory. ....

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Sigmund Stern Grove

Sigmund Stern Grove
Copyright © 2002 Jacob Pemberton
Excerpted with permission from Mr. Pemberton s paper: Amid the Sand and the Fog: The Development of the Sunset District of San Francisco, 1930-1940
The final aspect that was crucial to the growth of the Sunset as a distinct district was the establishment within the district of a few of the city s premier recreational and cultural institutions, including Fleishhacker Pool and the various attractions in Golden Gate Park. But perhaps most noteworthy among these institutions is Sigmund Stern Grove, located on a parcel of land along Sloat Boulevard that was donated to the city in 1931 by Rosalie Stern, widow of Sigmund Stern and President of the city Playground Commission (later renamed the Recreation Commission). ....

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