Politics, dancing and Pierogies

There are two things that Poles like their politics and their dancing. They like their politics like their dancing – fast and passionate. The politics in the Polish Community is replete with rough and tumble political races with lots of fast activity and mud slinging. You had to move fast and think on your feet because your opponent was going to be coming after you full-speed ahead. Almost like a Polka Dance with fast movements with sharp curves. Both politics and dancing in the Polish Community got the heart beating very rapidly with sweat beads forming on the brow.

Here’s a great example of the politics and dancing working hand-in-hand. The Young Men’s Democratic Club endorses P.C. Jezewski for Mayor for the City of Hamtramck. The YMDC sponsors a dance on Sat., Feb. 20, 1932 at the Metropolitan Hall in the heart of the Polish Community in Hamtramck at the corner of Jos. Campau and Evaline. The dance features the Michigan Stompers – if that’s not a heart pumping name I’ll eat your Pierogies at the corner of Campau and Holbrook! The doors open at 7:30 P.M. with dancing till?? Sounds like a great night of dancing and politics to me.