A friend of mine had learned the East Coast swing, particularly jitterbug in the mid to late eighties and attended the Jitterbug Swing Dance Club almost every Sunday evening in San Diego. She was crazy about the jitterbug and went out with small groups of people to dance to various swing bands around town like Sue Palmer or the Stilettos. I tried to convince her a few times to learn the West Coast swing, even telling her it was the “dancers dance,” but she was unmoved by my suggestions. She was a committed Jitterbugger. Then one day I saw her at a West Coast swing dance class at the Pattie Wells’ Dancetime Center. I asked her how it happened that she was now learning West Coast swing. She said that the neo-swing jitterbug and Lindy hop groups were getting smaller and everyone seemed to want to dance West Coast swing so she decided to learn it so she could dance with more people. I think the thousands of jitterbug and swing dancers in San Diego are starting to learn West Coast swing. It is really giving a boost to the west coast swing San Diego community .