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,...
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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...
Happy Fourth of July! Here is a special treat for everyone. On July 4, 1978, the 11-year-old Illinois Boys Baton Twirling Champion performed on Bozo’s Circus. The show aired on WGN, a local Chicago station. It was preserved by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television, also known as Fuzzy...
The 2023 NBTA Illinois State Baton Twirling Championship and Open Competition is Sunday, July 9, 2023. Organized by Jim Hallett, the contest will take place at the Zion-Benton Township High School, Zion, Illinois. The deadline for entries is June 25, 2023. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. The contest...
The woman in this photo is identified only as a drum majorette. The only date given is the year, 1945, so we don’t know if this was before or after World War II ended. She looks really happy, so maybe the war was over by the time this picture was taken. Fort Sheridan Women’s Army Auxiliary...
A drum majorette from Normal Community High School, Normal, Illinois, twirls a baton above her head at the homecoming football game against Pontiac Township High School, 1939. CITATION Piercy, Olin;, “Normal (IL) Community High School homecoming football game vs. Pontiac, 1939”, McLean...
Shirley Skriven, 15, for two years National high school baton twirling champion, scores another triumph at the World’s Fair of 1940 in New York when she appears stih the Morgan Park High School Bankd of Beverly Hills, Chicago (Source: Leo Casey, Director of Publicty, World’s Fair of...
OBITUARY Audrey Vernell McWhorter, 91, was the beloved wife of Gerald Eugene McWhorter for nearly 60 years; cherished mother of Kathleen and Donald; cherished grandmother of Dannel (Karla) Egert, Christina (Christopher) Delaney, Tiffany (Michael) Hutchens and Brian McWhorter; loving...
