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Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
The Texas Women's Open is a golf tournament, played in the Fort Worth, Texas area. From 1950 to 1954, it was an LPGA Tour event, [ 1 ] although it was first played in 1933. It was revived by the North Texas section of the PGA of America in 2001. [ 2 ]
Six men vied for dates with three unseen women by having conversations with them, in a show similar to the future The Dating Game.The men, who were typically either servicemen or college students, were known as the "Hunters" and tried to win a date with the women, known as the "Hunted," for an expense-paid date on the town, which included an invitation to a popular local nightclub.
Anderson lived at 724 E. 52nd Place from 1930 to 1945 (part of the 52nd Place Historic District).. Ivie Anderson was born July 10, 1905, in Gilroy, California. [3] Although her mother's name is unknown, her father was Jobe Smith.
Ebell Society, founded in 1876 in Oakland as the International Academy for the Advancement of Women. The club's purpose was the advancement of women in cultural, industrial and intellectual pursuits. Francisca Club, private women's club in San Francisco; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, founded 1891. Its second clubhouse building, built in ...
Women employees of the Aluminum Co. of Kingston, Ontario wear knee-length skirts with blouses or sweaters (often with a string of graduated pearls), 1943. Women's fashion in Europe (Hungary, 1943). Singer Peggy Lee wears a pompadour hairstyle and an evening dress with a "sweetheart" neckline in the film Stage Door Canteen , 1943.
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Major shows of the late 1950s included Donn Arden's Lido de Paris show at the Stardust, Jack Entratter’s Copa Girls at the Sands Hotel, and Harold Minsky’s Follies at the Desert Inn. Minsky introduced topless showgirls and these were then incorporated into The Lido de Paris , a show that ran for 31 years. [ 6 ]