Talk:Elmore City, Oklahoma

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The events of Footloose is based on events in the town. That's rather vague. Someone please explain. Redwolf24 1 July 2005 21:49 (UTC)

Dancing
The article says dancing is prohibited and the ban was lifted in 1980. Should it be was prohibited or was 1980 a special dispensation? 140.180.166.176 01:21, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and what counted as dancing? I mean, would you have been arrested for jigging about in your chair when your favorite song came on the radio? How could it have been proven and which police force in the world has the resorces to waste on this kinda law? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.221.227.2 (talk) 21:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * These types of laws were passed all over rural America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Usually, the public "cause" was morality, but the real basis was to prevent the influx of crime that came with establishments such as saloons, bars, etc that allowed dancing.  By disallowing dancing, a community was stopping these establishments from entering, and thus pushing the problems they caused elsewhere (or into more-easily-subdued underground places).  The point wasn't to actually prevent dancing (and, as the previous commenter stated, how exactly would that be enforced?), but rather the establishments which generally included dancing and the crime that went along with them.

Bkporter12 (talk) 02:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Could this be included in the article? I came here via the Footloose-article, and really didn't understand how danicng could be banned in real life. I always thought it was just a ridiculous movie plot until I read about this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.52.174.46 (talk) 11:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is an article on the Footloose/dancing controversy. http://okgazette.com/2011/10/14/footloose-the-okg-true-hollywood-story/ Lots42 (talk) 15:56, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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