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Word: beantown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...finding spots in which to hear good jamming or to do a little playing yourself, they just don't exist in Beantown. The number of jam joints in any given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

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