sock hop

With its voluminous fabric that flared prettily when the wearer twirled, it was just the thing for a sock hop.

As Oates tells it in his 2017 memoir, both men were performing in separate bands at a sock hop in Philadelphia when gunfire broke out and they ended up in a service elevator together.

At a time when many young Black artists are wrestling with themes of racial injustice on their canvases, Titus’s paintings depict people dancing at a sock hop and lounging on the lawn.

The loss of Bar House’s stage came after the closure of Ronette’s Psychedelic Sock Hop, a short-lived Frelard joint Verellen co-owned with These Arms are Snakes singer Steve Snere and others.

Ronette’s Psychedelic Sock Hop in Frelard: Open since just last April, this bar-and-music-venue-and-sometime-pasta-place closed in December with this explanation via Instagram: “We love the place so much and have been proud to contribute in some small way to our local music scene. That said, as owners we each have other things in our lives that we need to focus on and have decided Ronette’s is not going to be a long term project for us right now.”