Susan Bisson, 18 and Monique Bisson, 20, are pictured here performing the frug as a way of trying to earn money to stay in Miami.
The sisters had run out of cash but really didn't want to return to Montreal because it was early February, 1966 and they were apparently having a pretty good time down on South Beach.
So they climbed atop a neon sign, five storeys up, and started doing the frug in hopes that people below would somehow convey cash to them for their efforts.
They also tossed firecrackers down onto the crowd.
The act was not a hit with police, alas.
The constabulary arrested the dancing duo and brought them before Judge Gerald Tobin who gave them a 120-day sentence.
"I done that to make a joke, but it's no joke now," said young Monique.
They were put in jail for a week and even then their hearing was delayed because Judge Tobin got into a car accident and ended up in hospital.
So the two went the next day to his hospital room where the municipal court proceedings were temporarily relocated and he ordered them to return to Canada.
The Canadian Club of Miami managed to find the loot to send the two sisters back to Montreal.
No trace of what happened to them after that, although they'd be in their 60s now, still young enough to frug-a-plenty.
The sisters had run out of cash but really didn't want to return to Montreal because it was early February, 1966 and they were apparently having a pretty good time down on South Beach.
So they climbed atop a neon sign, five storeys up, and started doing the frug in hopes that people below would somehow convey cash to them for their efforts.
They also tossed firecrackers down onto the crowd.
The act was not a hit with police, alas.
The constabulary arrested the dancing duo and brought them before Judge Gerald Tobin who gave them a 120-day sentence.
"I done that to make a joke, but it's no joke now," said young Monique.
They were put in jail for a week and even then their hearing was delayed because Judge Tobin got into a car accident and ended up in hospital.
So the two went the next day to his hospital room where the municipal court proceedings were temporarily relocated and he ordered them to return to Canada.
The Canadian Club of Miami managed to find the loot to send the two sisters back to Montreal.
No trace of what happened to them after that, although they'd be in their 60s now, still young enough to frug-a-plenty.
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