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Marathon Dancing - The 1930s Dance Craze That Stepped Too Far
Step back in time to the 1920s and 1930s, an era when the music never stopped—because if it did, you went out of the contest!
In this episode, we dive into the bizarre, grueling, and shockingly hilarious world of marathon dancing. What started as a quirky, record-breaking trend in the Roaring Twenties quickly evolved into a high-stakes, desperate survival strategy during the Great Depression. We explore how a simple dance floor transformed into an arena of pure endurance, where couples shuffled, staggered, and slept on their feet for hundreds of hours just for a shot at a cash prize and free…
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