In celebration of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we will share vintage pictures of twirlers and majorettes marching and performing in past Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. The following post was published by the Freeport Memorial Library, Freeport, New York. Many thanks to their...
Photo Restored with AI Software Elaine Jones is a longtime leader and living legend in the sport of baton twirling. A coach for nearly 50 years, she has taught more than 1,000 students, many of whom went on to twirl and dance in high school and college. Hailing from the great state of Illinois,...
A young Black girl sporting a blue western-style pantsuit twirls a store-bought baton in her kitchen. We know it’s the kitchen because you can see Maxwell House coffee in the lower lefthand corner. đ All in all, a very cute vintage Polaroid. Those store-bought batons were not balanced and...
Photos by Jim Peppler for the Souther Courier; Source: Alabama Departnebt of Archives and History. The pictures were taken during a Homecoming parade in 1966. The students were from Booker T. Washington High School, Montgomery, Alabama. All three photos were edited with artificial intelligence...
Check out this lovely rare 1940s portrait of Black majorette Mae Alice Hinkle. It was taken in 1943. Ms. Hinkle grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri where she attended Douglass High School. Formal portraits of baton twirlers and majorettes from the early 1940s are somewhat rare. The further along...
One of the last high schools in Oklahoma City to boast a full baton twirling majorette line was Frederick Douglass High School. On this night in 1981, Jeri Young, a baton twirler for the school, marched wtih the Trojan band at Taft Stadium during a high school marching band contest. Required...
These 1970s majorettes are clad in quintessential baton twirler gauntlets, tiaras, sequin body suits and tall white boots. This costuming was on trend for the era. Oh, the memories! These twirlers were members of the Luther Judson Price High School Majorette Squad, Atlanta, Georgia. They gathered...
Check out our latest lovely photo restoration! This is Carol Lites in the 1970s during a photo shoot at the park district where she learned to twirl baton. Isn’t the long fringe on her costume great!? We love it. All of us here at the Vintage Twirler miss chainette fringe! During her...
E.J. Campbell High School (Nacodoches County, Texas) Drill Team poses for a picture in front of the school, 1954. Click here to learn more about this picture.
In 1960, Warren Bass wowed the fans on Mizzou’s Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium as the drum major for Sumner High School, St. Louis, Missouri. The occasion was Mizzouâs High School Band Day. At the time, Bass had never had professional baton twirling lessons and actually started...
A Savannah State College majorette performs during the 1983 Homecoming Game. SSC changed its name to Savannah State University in the late 1990s. Located in Savannah, Georgia, it is one of 107 HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in the United States. This photo was featured along...
The girl in the middle’s got some sass, y’all. She’s looking straight at the camera, too. This is an image of majorettes-in-training in St. Mary’s, a small city in Camden County, Georiga, 1950s. St. Mary’s is located on St. Mary’s River in the state’s Low...
