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The Texas Tommy is a dance that originated in San Francisco in the early twentieth century. After the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the Barbary Coast became more of a tourist attraction than its predecessor. Dance-floors and polka dot pink variety shows designed to shock the tourists replaced prostitution as the chief business and many of the dance crazes that swept America during this period were originated in this section of San Francisco. The Thalia, located on 732 Pacific,〔http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8h4nb75h&brand=oac/ retrieved 12/2009〕 between Kearny and Montgomery, and both the largest and most popular dance hall on the Pacific Coast, was the birthplace of both the Texas Tommy and the turkey trot.〔Herbert Asbury. ''The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of The San Francisco Underworld'' (1933). Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, p. 293. ISBN 1-56025-408-4.〕〔Daniel Steven Crafts, ("Barbary Coast ) - Historical Essay".〕 The Texas Tommy was a hit around 1910 at a Negro cabaret, Purcell's, on the Barbary Coast. Ethel Williams, who helped popularize the dance in New York in 1913, described it as a "kick and a hop three times on each foot followed by a slide". The basic steps are followed by a breakaway - an open position, while keeping with the timing, that allowed for acrobatics, antics, improvisations, and showing off. Both Williams and Johnny Peters introduced the dance to New Yorkers in 1913's ''The Darktown Follies''.〔Stearns, Marshall and Jean (1968), ''Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance''. New York: Macmillan, p. 323.〕〔Julie Malnig, ''Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader''. Edition: illustrated. University of Illinois Press, 2008, p. 58. ISBN 0-252-07565-X, 9780252075650 〕 The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco popularized and legitimized the low dancehall Texas Tommy along with the Bunny hug, Turkey Trot and Grizzly Bear. The hotel had a house band that regularly played the Texas Tommy song and was a major place to be for dancing. Who originated the Texas Tommy is obscure; most likely it was being done and someone capitalized upon it. Some say Johnny Peters, an African American, developed the Texas Tommy in the pre-1910s in San Francisco. Peters and Ethel Williams were masters of the dance and danced it regularly at the Fairmont. Working from film, one section of the dance had a basic movement employing a step-hop: "The basic produced a loose step, hop-kick, step, hop-kick, run, run, run, run pattern." She also identifies a "useful variation" of four step-kicks which "agrees with the open and improvisatinal manner that the Texas Tommy was described to have in many of the written references."〔Rebecca Ruth Strickland, ("The Texas Tommy, Its History, Controversies, and Influence on American Vernacular Dance" ) (March 31, 2006), p. 59. Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations. Paper 1538.〕 == Music and lyrics == Sheet music including lyrics to the "Texas Tommy Swing" was published by the World's Fair Publishing Company, 1200A Third Avenue, San Francisco on January 1, 1911. The music was composed by Sid Brown, and lyrics were by Val Harris. The sheet music cover was unique, and done in the form of the front page of a newspaper. The headline was: "The Dance That Makes The Whole World Stare." The faux newspaper included reprints of two actual articles from the ''San Francisco Examiner''. The first, dated November 29, 1910, was headlined "Pavlowa Endorsed Texas Tommy Swing." The second, dated December 29, 1910, was headlined: "Mrs. Oelriches Liked Texas Tommy Swing." The central article in the faux newspaper was "The Story of the Dance" is transcribed here:
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