Back in Southern Calif. some of my favorite memories were of TSCC dances. The bands were amazing and the music was loud and they really did ROCK!
I would have to say, this brought me into TSCC and I really didn't know anything about the crazy Religion. I just loved those dances.

It was a great way to recruit others and it worked!



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Newport Beach Stake and Mission Viejo Stake dances were the thing in my day. The cult used to fork out big bucks for the live bands. They hired the level of local bands that the high schools booked for proms and such. They were really good!

We danced our butts off in those dimly lit Stake Center Basketball Courts!

Mr. Sun

+1

Garden Grove Stake in the early 70's had some terrible bands but terrific girls!

As a chaperone--from the MIA. Controversy in Studio City ward over the types of dances and the shortness of the skirts, not to mention that women were not to wear pants with zippers in the front!

Still, I noticed the kids had a good time.

Yes, but in north California we didn't have live bands. And no bear hugging!

No bear hugs, no backless dresses, no bare-feet, no short skirts, blah blah blah....

Happily, Northern California is much kinder to the bear community these days, lol.

I was in northern California. I went through all the Aaronic Priesthood presidencies so I was involved in planning many of them in my Stake. (Don... we had live bands occasionally at special events such as conferences.)

But then, we also had inter-ward sports, and roadshows, and dance festivals, and super (summer) activities, and mutual activities ...

I was in Roseville. We had roadshows and dances. The dances featured recorded music. I'm not complaining; the girls were nice and loved to dance. Those dances and the boy scouts were the only two things I ever liked about Mormonism.

I was in the Carmichael area. Yes, scouts and dances were the only thing about the church I was interested in. I think there was about a three month period that some friends from Rancho Cordova and I found a dance in some stake or another almost every Saturday. Most were just record dances, but about every month or so, we'd find a pretty good live band.

I was in the Fair Oaks area. I didn't ever go to the dances (girls? Ugh), but I do have a strong memory of helping my older sister go through the stack of 45s that the stake had and deciding which songs to play. I distinctly remember Carly Simon's You're So Vain being one of the songs.

Conversation from 1972:

Mom: I heard a song on the radio today. This lady was singing about having "grounds in my coffee". What's that about?

Me: "Clouds", Mom, "Clouds". Yeah, I don't know.

Yep. And big regional dances. We had two big formal stake dances with live bands each year--on New Years Eve and the Gold and Green Ball. They went all out on them. The fun just depended on who was chaperoning. The chaperones could make it or break it.

Wow lots of northern CA folks here. Me too 78 to 82. Even the nonLDS kids would go. There was one every month. We'd drive up to Redding or Chico or even Marysville because a different place hosted each month.

WestCoMonte

The dances in East LA

gone but not forgotten.

Our stake in the sixties had dances that were called "The Square Affair".

No live bands, all recorded music...

This was in LA area.



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Nope, but I did attend San Diego ones in the 80s, those were really awesome.

I wasn't too much into the dances, most likely because I would have had to dance with girls.

I remember going to Mormon Night at at Disney Land. I was only investigating TSCC and I would go with others my age that I would try to corrupt.

Stockton ca 74-76 live bands lots of fun, lots of drama.

Let's face it, wherever they were held in the world they were basically organised 'cattle markets'.

And for introverts, they were absolute torture, only attended out of a misplaced sense of 'duty'.

My mom has photos of beautiful stake dance locales with nicely laid out "Spanish themed" dinners and women wearing pretty dresses (some of which were strapless *gasp*). And then she moved to Utah. And it all ended.

Sure did! Pasadena and then Arcadia Stake. YM/YW '74-'76.

Live bands, and fun. We had an old "sister" who would break up slow dancers if they were too close. "The BOM distance between the two people."

Guys weren't allowed to wear jeans or any kind of denim. Church was fun back then (I joined in '74).

Roadshows and youth conference, etc. were fun.

The church turned into a boring, correlated mess. My kids were not that active and the crap they offered them was pure boring sh!t.

My kids never experienced TSCC the way I did. It will never be the same with such a focus on 'Obedience' -- because you can't have fun in TSCC and laugh, dance, joke and raise your vibration. Keeping everyone in a lower state/nearly dead works well for them.
Very similar events going as Warren Jeffs makes fun illegal -- follow the prophet, follow the prophet, he knows the way!

Bay Area. Very few live bands, but we had a lot of fun. It was a cheap date or just a night out.

It was fun, until I got back from my mission. Started to go to YA dances. Most of the time, I didn't get asked to dance. I think the vibe of secure, smart female scared them off.

But this was during the '80s. I was in the Newport Beach Stake YA leadership and we ran those dances AND danced our butts off. So. Much. Fun. I still maintain friendships with the people who were in that stake and especially with those Mormons that coordinated the dances with me at Fashion Island. Those times were definitely highlights of my tenure as a converted mo.

Yep. I lived in the Bay Area and joined TSCC while in high school in '77. There were so, so many really great activities going on back then. Where was all the money coming from? With the benefit of hindsight, it's clear that I was joining a really fun club more than a religion.

What a different world it was for my kids, growing up with ultra-boring or nonexistent youth activities.

Southern Bay Area (San Jose, Saratoga, Santa Clara and Los Altos Stakes). We had dance cards, basically recommends where we answered questions and agreed to abide by certain dress and behavioral standards that we would then repeatedly try to get around.

New' Year's Eve in SJ they'd rent out a mall and have a regional dance in it.

Dances, Dance Festival and Youth Conferences were good times. Sunshine, great music, cute girls. Don't know that I would have become as Mormon as I did if the Youth program had been like it is now— you know all religion-y and stuff.



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I attended the YA dances in '82-'83 in the SF Bay area and Southern bay area, and post-mission in the mid-80's. There were some hot girls. I met my first serious GF at one of those dances. Ironically, she was a Nevermo. She was a smart stanford gal and as horny as they come.