Yes, it was a UPC church at the center of the small town which the movie Footloose was based on.
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Thinking back 31 years, Leonard Coffee can recall the first prom in Elmore City's history starting off slow. That part of "Footloose," the 1984 movie inspired by the southern Oklahoma town's ban on dancing and the teens' fight for a prom, was no Hollywood fiction.
"Nobody really knew how to dance. We could move around a little, but we were clueless as to what we were doing," Coffee said with a laugh. "I'd say that 'Clueless' would have been a better title for the movie than 'Footloose.' I make no claims to being a John Travolta on the dance floor."
If there were two so-called instigators of the push for that 1980 prom in the small Garvin County town (about 150 miles southwest of Tulsa, with a population of 697 in the 2010 census), they would be Coffee and his high-school girlfriend and date for the prom, Mary Ann Temple-Lee.
A remake of "Footloose," featuring a loose interpretation of the events that took place in Elmore City, opens in theaters Friday.
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