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Title: Pacific Coast dance champs
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Harris, Gil
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
In a dance they term the "Fly Away Step," Hal Chavoor and Betty Poesser, Pacific Coast jitterbug champions, are shown as they prepare for the International Jitterbug Championship contest to be staged in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Thousands of "hep cats" from all over the nation were slated to compete. Photo dated: 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027826
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8022 Jitterbugs; HE-001-351 4x5
CARL0000030046
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9874
Subject: Chavoor, Hal
Poesser, Betty
Dancers--California--Los Angeles
Swing (Music)--California--Los Angeles
Jitterbug (Dance)--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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