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1939 --- 1939- Picture shows a couple dancing the jitterbug while smiling for the camera. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
13 Nov 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA --- 11/13/1943-Los Angeles, California- Los Angeles civic leaders, in a drive to combat juvenile delinquency, converted a deserted night club into the Club Los Pachucos to provide wholesome recreation for the young zoot suit crowd. But even as they jitterbugged at the formal opening, a new outburst of violence broke out and four youths landed in jail for attacks on two Marines. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- 06/25/1953-New York City, NY: Loew's Victoria Theater, 125th St. & 7th Ave.. Jitterbugging. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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1940, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA --- Jitterbugging at Coney Island --- Image by © Lucien Aigner/CORBIS
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ca. 1940s, USA --- A soldier and his girl are shown jitterbugging in the 1940s. They are facing away from each other as they hold each other's hand, and have gleeful expressions on their faces. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
23 Sep 1939, New York, New York, USA --- 9/23/39-New York: Alfred Schock and Evelyn Stein are going to town in a big way during the jitterbug session that marked the opening of the Mardi Gras swing casino at the New York World's Fair. The casino is free to all fair goers -- all rug-cutting is strictly on the house. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Probably USA --- Jitterbugging in a Juke Joint on Saturday Night --- Image by © CORBIS
26 Feb 1947, New York, New York, USA --- 02/26/1947-New York, NYmusic--the redhot variety --is the specialty at New York's Savoy Ballroom; and that kind of music makes for the red hot jitterbugging of harlemites. Dancers creat miniature cyclones as they jitter to hot jazz. Sometimes it quiets down and gets smoother. Ricky Babbit and Lucy Simms are smooth. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
12 Dec 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA --- A woman swings her jitterbug partner by the legs during a Salvation Army benefit dance marathon in Los Angeles. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1920s-1950s, Probably England, UK --- Couple Dancing the Jitterbug --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
ca. 1940s, USA --- A sailor and a woman are shown jitterbugging. He is swinging her around his side and up in the air. Ca. 1940s. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
1939, USA --- A couple is shown dancing gaily in a jitterbug scene from "The Jones Family in Hollywood," from 20th Century Fox Film, 1939. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
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08 Sep 1938, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA --- 9/8/1938- Venice, CA: Swinging in the sandtime...on the sandy beach of Venice, CA, the jitterbugs have foregathered to put on one of the world's greatest swing jamborees. Some of the best in the country have entered in the California championships for all classes of jittery jitterbugs. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
12 Dec 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA --- Los Angeles, California: California Jitterbugs Go To Town. 10,000 southern California jitterbugs recently went to town in a morning session that not only provided excitement, but $300 to boot for the Salvation Army Christmas Basket Fund. The rug cutters got so enthusiastic that 25 policemen assigned to "keep order" were forced to call for help from their station house. Here a hepcat swings his partner with a swirl of flying legs as they shine before the crowd. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1942, Detroit, Michigan, USA --- A couple jitterbugs the night away at a dance competition sponsored by the Work Projects Administration. The dance was part of the promotion for a homefront scrap salvage program. --- Image by © CORBIS
A sailor and a woman are shown jitterbugging. They face each other, and he sticks his chin out. Ca. 1940s. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
A sailor and a woman are shown jitterbugging. He is swinging her up and to his left side. Ca. 1940s. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
08 Sep 1938 --- A pair of jitterbuggers in action during a "shag session." --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. May 1949, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK --- British and American soldiers mingle as they dance the jitterbug with their dates at a club in Warrington. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
27 May 1947, New York, New York, USA --- Dance instructors Vernon Cass and Leslie Pan demonstrate the Astaire, a dance based on the jitterbug, foxtrot, and Jersey bounce. Fred Astaire created the dance himself and taught it to 100 American dance instructors at his dance studio, which opened in New York in 1947. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
20 Jun 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA --- 6/20/1939- Los Angeles, CA: Win jitterbug honors- Ernstid Davidson and Herman Harrison, a pair of negro "hep-cats" showed their heels to all competition and "jived" to victory in the negro division at the International Jitterbug Convention held in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Here the two are show exhibiting the style which won them first place. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1942 --- Director George Stevens leans backwards to avoid the flying legs of a jitterbugging dancer on the set of the motion picture <Talk of the Town>. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
17 Apr 1942, USA --- 4/17/1942- Even after putting in eight full hours at the Boeing plant, Virginia Estes and Gene Picket(left foreground) and Wanita Green and Carl Kelley(right) have enough reserves of energy for jitterbugging. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
USA --- A sailor and a woman are shown jitterbugging. He holds her below him, her legs around his waist and her feet in the air. Ca. 1940s. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
Washington, DC, USA --- 9/5/1942-Washington, DC: These are some representative examples of that amazing new creation; the zoot suit, worn by all bona fide jitterbugs. The WBP cast a frowning eye on the drape shapes and grip hips and jut cuts and reat pleats and cleve sleeves, and warns that the "solid set of threads" will have to go for the duration. Note that dog chain that one of them is sporting. It didn't trip him up while dancing at the Washington Hotel in Washington, DC, though. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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February 1939, Ocean Park, California, USA --- 2/1939-Ocean Park, CA- Wild hysteria that makes the modern jitterbug is captured in this photo of "Solid Senders Blowing Their Tops" at a jam session in the dawn at Ocean Park. Expressions on the faces of the "alligators" of spectators, are as remarkable as the actions of the dancers. This picture , by Paul Pangburn of Los Angeles Herald and Express, took a third prize in the annual Hearst Picture Contest. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1939 --- A man is shown swinging a woman near the floor as they dance in this jitterbugging scene from the movie "The Jones Family in Hollywood," from 20th Century Fox Films, 1939. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
22 Jun 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA --- 6/22/1939-Los Angeles, CA- A view of part of the dancing area in Los Angeles as more than 1,000 jitterbugs representing 22 states and six foreign countries, went to town during the contest to pick the champion rug-cutters. The famed swing bands of Artie Shaw and Ken Baker supplied the hot licks. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
08 Sep 1938 --- 9/8/1938-THE HARLEM CLUTCH... If you are inclined to be jittery try this one. The gent is doing the footwork chopping up the rug in rhythm to the daffy music. The gal holds a half-nelson on her partner and at the same time gets a ride on the merry-go-round as he revolves, spins and keeps on tapping. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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01 Mar 1940, Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- 3/1/40-New York: Wedding in swing! Nagasaki for lohengrin and jivers flower girls. That's the Harlem innovation as it celebrated Leap Year's Day with a mass swing wedding. Here we see the brides and grooms kissing. The ushers and bridesmaids in the foreground add to the jitterbug atmosphere. About 2,000 guests attended. BPA2 #5422 --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
New York, New York, USA --- 3/3/46-New York: Contestants Florence Russell and Bob Smith swing out to the strains of Benny Goodman's music during a jitterbug contest, one of the features at the "teen frolics," first of a series of entertainment programs for young America, all under legitimate sponsorship. More than 6.000 teen-agers attended the event which was held atth 17th Regiment Armory in New York. Photo by Sammy Goldstein --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Noumea, New Caledonia --- 3/5/1943-Moumea, New Caledonia: American yank teaches the jitterbug to a young French colonial girl at the opening of "The Beer Garden" for U.S. soldiers in Moumea, New Caledonia, one of our South Pacific Bases. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
New York, New York, USA --- New York, NY: Jitterbugs taking over the floor at the Yacht Club in New York City, ca. 1938. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1930s-1940s, New York, New York, USA --- New York, NY: Harlem: Inspired crowd in Savoy ballroom during jitterbuggin days. Undated photograph. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
12 Dec 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA --- Los Angeles, California: California Jitterbugs Go To Town. 10,000 southern California jitterbugs recently went to town in a morning session that not only provided excitement, but $300 to boot for the Salvation Army Christmas Basket Fund. The rugcutters got so enthusiastic that 25 policemen assigned to "keep order" were forced to call for help from their station house. Here two killer dillers shine before the crowd as he goes way down in an effervescent burst of exuberance. The contest in Shrine auditorium here changed from a jitterbug contest into one between dancers and police, but it was clean fun, said a veteran policeman. However, another contest for the Kay Kyser trophy has been postponed indefinitely. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
14 Feb 1955, Stuttgart, Germany --- Hep cats, jitterbugs, or what have you, here's the German version of the frenzied art during the Southwest German Jitterbug Championships held in Stuttgart. The winners are shown at the peak of their hectic gyrations. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
A soldier and his girl are shown jitterbugging in the 1940s. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
12 Dec 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA --- 12/12/1939-Los Angeles, CA- 10,000 Southern California jitterbugs recently went to town in a morning session that not only provided excitement, but $300 to boot for the Salvation Army Christmas Basket fund. The rugcutters got so enthusiastic that 35 policemen assigned to "keep order" were forced to call for help from their station house. Here, a young mused-up male gets way down to do some "peckin" with his partner to the strident strains of Ken Baker's orchestra. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1954, UK --- British Couple Dancing the Jitterbug --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
27 Jun 1946, New York, New York, USA --- Despite a wilting heat wave and sweltering humidity, summer dancing opened June 27th on the Mall in Central Park. These youthful couples jitterbug in almost calm serenity while the rest of the metropolis perspires. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
26 Dec 1952, Germany --- 12/26/1952-Germany- The fast pace of t he jitterbug contest combines intricate steps with lots of excitment. Charming Ellen Daub and her pertner, Mannfred Neuhausen, were runners-up to the boogi-woogi champs. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1956 --- Jitterbug dancers are shown doing routines in scenes from "Don't Knock the Rock," the 1956 Columbia Pictures musical starring Bill Haley and His Comets, and produced by Sam Katzman. --- Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
1938- Couple demonstrating the jitterbug. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
06 Jun 1950, New York, New York, USA --- 6/6/1950-New York, NY: Six European War veterans. Photo shows European war orphans learning the American jitterbug. Watching in back are l to r: Hubert Lisle, age 16; Irmgarde Remme, age 18; Konstantinos Sotirhos, age 15; Margaret Craton, age 17, and Rene Gielis, age 19. The dancing couple is Whitey Robinson, age 17, from the U. S. A. teaching Beatrice Lidonnici, age 17, the American jitterbug. Skyline is in background. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Los Angeles, California, USA --- 6/20/1939- Los Angeles, CA: Win jitterbug honors- Ernstid Davidson and Herman Harrison, a pair of Negro "hep-cats" showed their heels to all competition and "jived" to victory in the Negor division at the International Jitterbug Convention held in the Los Angeles Coliseum. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Los Angeles, California, USA --- 6/20/1939- Los Angeles, CA: Win jitterbug honors- Ernstid Davidson, and Herman Harrison, a pair of Negro "hep-cats," showed their heels to all competition and "jived" to victory in the Negro division at the International Jitterbug Convention held in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Here the two do a deep dip in front of theirtrophies. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
05 Sep 1942, Washington, DC, USA --- 9/5/1942-Washington, DC- Real hep cats are these Zoot Suit-clad dancers on the ballroom floor of the Washington Hotel. It is doubtful if the garments lend any grace or agility to the jitterbugs who wear them, but even if they did, the needle nuts and gandy dancers may have to do with out them for the duration, because the WBP thinks the Zoot Suits unpatriotic, since they require more cloth than the ordinary suit. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
West Berlin, Germany --- 1/26/1952-West Berlin, Germany: Helga Meyer and Dieter Heidmann had the other Jitterbugs beat, when it came to form and lasting power. For two hours they maneuvered on the dance floor, winding up with first prize and the title of "Germany's Best Rubber-Legged Couple." --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
18 Mar 1945, New York, New York, USA --- 3/18/1945-New York, NY- At the Teentimers' canteen fashion show, the kids go to town on all fronts in their new duds. All the dresses, designed by Grace Norman especially for the hep cats, retail anywhere from eight to thirteen dollars. That's a mean lindy hop those two chicks are doing. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
June 1942, Bridgeton, New Jersey, USA --- Farm workers dance in the recreation tent of a Farm Security Administration agricultural workers' camp. Bridgeton, New Jersey, June 1942. --- Image by © CORBIS
November 1939, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA --- Jitterbugging on Saturday night in a 'juke joint.' Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. --- Image by © CORBIS
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10 Nov 1937, New York, New York, USA --- 11/10/1937-New York, NY: Photo shows Babs MacDowell and Stewart Barnes of South Carolina, the place where the "Big Apple" originated as they were going through their dance at one of Washingtons leading Hotels where they are showing the fashionable crowds just how its done... Closeup of the couple. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
10 Nov 1937, New York, New York, USA --- 11/10/1937-New York, NY.: Babs MacDowell and Stewart Barnes of South Carolina, the place where the "Big Apple" originated as they were going thru their dance at one of Washingtons leading Hotels where they are showing the fashionable crowds just how its done. Photo shows dancers at ease, or resting. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
11 Jun 1944, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA --- 6/11/1944-JAM SESSION.... There is even a corner for the hepcats at Steeplechase Park. Hot bands make with the boogey-woogie here while the boys and gals swing, sway and chop up the rugs. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Berlin, Germany --- 9/25/1953-Berlin, Germany: A dance contest between Berlin and Paris finds Axel Garcinet whirling his partner, Bebe Coffinet off the floor in time with a mad musical beat at the Sports Palace in Berlin. The French contingent lost to the German hepcats in the "Best Rubber-Legged Couple" competition. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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ca. 1949, London, England, UK --- People dance energetically in a London dance hall. The nightclub, called the Paramount, was remarkable at the time (1949) for being totally desegregated. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
1920s --- A smiling female bandleader conducts for her swing band as she sits atop a piano. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
ca. 1946, 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, England, UK --- Partners really 'go to town' at a meeting of the London Jazz Club at number one hundred Oxford Street. Humphrey Lyttelton's band provides the rhythm of 'New Orleans' jazz and the atmosphere of a Paris cellar is brought to an Oxford Street basement. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
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