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Show Valchinq Junior Prom Dancers Brings Back Memories for Bea By Bea As I watched the dancers at the Junior Prom my thoughts took me back over the years to the days when I was growing up. Dancing was one of the greatest ways of getting together and getting get-ting out with your friends and neighbors at least once Saturday night. Dancing then was always the finale to all special occasions, especially weddings and a reception re-ception always ended with a night of dancing, a fine way to get acquainted. Christmas and New Years we always gathered at Grandpa and Grandma Carters in Por-terville Por-terville and after dinner we would ail pile into the sleighs young and old, babes in arms and off to the old school house for a night of dancing and visiting friends and neighbors, Everyone in the community was there. I was always so fascinated by the "Fiddler". As soon as he started to play, whether you were dancing or not you just couldn't keep your feet still as they were tap tapping to the music. Even after we moved to Park City we still went for many years to Porterville for many special occasions, and dancing was always a part-of it. HERE IN PARK CITY dancing was also very popular and there was always several to go to. There were dances every Saturday Sat-urday night at the Swedes Hall, 100 foot Hall, Elks Hall and this was the night for dancingand relaxing re-laxing after a long week of work. We would start the evening at one hall and meet some friends then on to the next one to see who was there and by the time the evening had gone and you were through dancing at the hall, sometimes till the A.M. your own group would then gather gath-er at one of the homes for refreshments re-freshments and more dancing and sometimes the sun would greet you as you started for home, weary but happy. What has happened to dancing danc-ing and the dance halls, are we too busy to socialize; Are we too wrapped up in ourselves or the "boob tubes"? THERE ISN'T MUCH dancing done today and when there is a dance there is more sitting than dancing. Partners seem to dance with each other all night not so in our day. It was a challenge chal-lenge to have a different partner part-ner for each dance and the first and last for our date. Dancing was not only good for socializing socializ-ing but also good exercise which are two things lost in today's world. The old time dance halls with the seemingly half-acre of polished floor, being held closely by your partner and dancing to "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi or Wayne King's The Waltz You Saved for Me" and many, many more are gone and only memories of the past, but such beautiful memories they are. |