# What Hobbies Are Going to Experience a Demographic Crunch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hobbies-are-going-to-experience-a-demographic-crunch/1023445 "2025-09-28T01:07:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 125
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hobbies-are-going-to-experience-a-demographic-crunch/1023445/125 "2025-09-30T15:43:21Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > But i am pretty certain that square dancing was just a fad in the 1950s, Read this thread starting from here > [@Is the slow dance still a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-slow-dance-still-a-thing/1011031/11): > > I grew up in a tony demi-fatcat suburb in SoCal. For whatever benighted reason our 5th grade elementary school, so age 10-11, had mandatory square dancing lessons for all the kids for 1 hour per week. Square dancing!!?! Truth is I enjoyed it and am glad I got pushed through it, despite otherwise having lots of trouble relating to girls. But square dancing in late 1960s uber-hip SoCal? You gotta be kidding me. I remember becoming fairly good at it by 10yo standards. I remember about zero of the … It wasn’t a fad, it was a project from Henry Ford because he hated Jews. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hobbies-are-going-to-experience-a-demographic-crunch/1023445)._