Black Bottom Dance Archives

Crosley’s Black Bottom Dance

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Sam Lurena

I’ve heard that the Black Bottom started in Atlanta, in New Orleans, and in Jacksonville, Florida, in the first decade of the 20th century. It became well known by semi-rural blacks across the south then, and by the 1920s, it found its way up to Harlem where it was featured at the Apollo Theater in […]

Why Is Crosley a Red Crocodile?

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Sam Lurena

My six-year-old son John invented the red crocodile named Crosley, and I had to explain why Crosley was red. You can’t just drop a red croc into a story without explaining, right? So it was something I had to figure out before I could start writing the Night Buddies adventures. At some point it occurred to me: Crosley […]