The Marching Redcoats from Leon High School, Tallahassee, Florida, marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, November 1960. The band was led by head majorette Linda Ohmes followed by favorite majorettes.
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...
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Rural New Mexican Norm Crider was born in 1938 and influenced a generation of French and Italian baton twirlers. Here are 15 facts about the late international champion and college feature twirler. 1 Born in 1938 in Lordsburg, New Mexico, he spent most his childhood in Southwest New Mexico....
Syracuse University, home of the famous Orange Girl, will host a Feature Twirler for a Day on Saturday, September 9! The event is open to twirlers of all ages and at any skill level. Twirlers will join current Orange Girl Abigail Veccia and the rest of the band during their quad show, halftime,...
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...
The above picture is a press photo by ACME News Pictures. It is watermarked by the eBay seller and no longer available for purchase. Based on our research with the Library of Congress, we do not believe ACME photos during this period of time are copyrighted; however we could be wrong. Due to the...
Rita Phillips, 1939 Rita Phillips, Majorette, 1939 | Photo by William C. Greene, Photographer, World Telegram and Sun
This photo of a little Black majorette was taken at the National Elks Convention in New York City in 1945. The photographer was the renowned John W. Mosley (1907-1969), a foremost photojournalist of 20th Century Philadelphia. He documented the “vitality of the Black community and life in the...
