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Sock hop at Shimer College, Illinois, in 1948. A sock hop or sox hop, often also called a record hop [1]: 199 or just a hop, was an informal (but officially organized) dance event for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring popular music.
Dean Pelton (), dressed as a woman from a black & white TV serial, announces that there will be an old-fashioned sock hop held in the cafeteria, as a Sadie Hawkins dance — in other words, a distraction while the CDC confiscates the drinking fountains on the same day.
East Coast Swing and the Lindy Hop social dance exchange event in Montreal in 2022. A number of types of social dance events can be distinguished. Ball. Debutante ball; Dance party. Rave; School dance. Sock hop; Prom; Tea dance; Traditional dance events Balfolk; Barn dance; Cèilidh; Troyl; Twmpath; Classified by the type of dance involved ...
For a true taste of nostalgia, come during the restaurant's annual summer sock hop to enjoy retro music, classic cars, dancing, and even some 1960s prices on certain menu items. ... Mug-n-Bun has ...
WTTG launched Milt Grant's Record Hop on July 22, 1956, with WOL simulcasting the television station's audio. [8] Grant's show, which had added support of area police and civic organizations as a "constructive approach" against juvenile delinquency, [9] originated from a ballroom at the Raleigh Hotel [1] six days a week (weekday afternoons at 5 p.m. and noon on Saturdays). [10]
The local high school in Cafe World is throwing a 50's themed party (or a Sock Hop), and it's up to you to cater the event! Feeding all of those students is going to be a tough job (kids can eat ...
Riverdale went full-on ’50s this week with a good old-fashioned sock hop… but you didn’t think we’d have a season of Riverdale without a little bloodshed, did you? A freshly mind-wiped ...
Jim Lounsbury (February 24, 1923, in Colo, Iowa – January 8, 2006, in Tucson, Arizona) was an early pioneer in rock and roll music and a radio news anchor.. Lounsbury hosted many of the first rock and roll radio programs (WIND and WJJD, Chicago; WOR, New York City) and later many rock and roll television shows, including Jim Lounsbury's Sock Hop, "Bandstand Matinee"', and The Record Hop (WGN ...