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Title: Dancing the Balboa Swing
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Gertrude Cottle and Jimmy Gibson dancing the Balboa Swing at Balboa Beach. Caption reads: At Balboa beach this step is called the "Balboa Swing" and the collegians really swing it. Another name for "truckin'" at Balboa is "ratting," from "rat-race," which collegians call a dance at a beach resort. Photo dated: Jul. 26, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059527
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 423.
CARL0000063710
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22850
Subject: Dancers
Swing (Music)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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