Hosted By: Twirl ATX & The East View HS Band Contest Directors: Ashley Wood & Whitney Coons NBTA Sanction #2989 Doors open at 7:45 a.m. Registration Deadline: November 26, 2023
Yvonne LePhiew (1933-1970), 17, appears in a photograph alongside her daughter Terrie Lynn “Bunnie” LePhiew (1949-2008) 16 months, at a football game at Farrington Field, Fort Worth, on September 27, 1950. When we first became captivated by this photo, we didn’t know the little...
During the 1953-54 school year, freshman Neota Moad was a “purple majorette” at Texas Christian University. In high school, she played the cornet in her high school band in Cisco, Texas. She was also a majorette. Sadly, in 1963, she was brutally bludgeoned in her Fort Worth home. While...
Rose Romero was a Mexican-American majorette on the El Paso High School pep squad in 1941. Below is an excerpt about the photographer who captured this beautiful image of her. Alfonso Casasola, Photographer Alfonso Casasola, a member of a famous family of Mexican photographers, came to El Paso in...
USAF Twirler Maurice Wilcox twirls for WBAP-TV, Fort Worth, 1951, ahead of a band concert at Will Rogers Coliseum. Maurice Wilcox was a four-time world champion baton twirler and a twirler in the United States Air Force Band. Wilcox competed all over the world including international competitions...
Irene Garza, a Texas school teacher and beauty queen, was murdered by John Feit in McAllen, Texas in 1960. Feit was a Catholic priest at the time and Garza, a devout Catholic, had gone to him for confession. Feit was not convicted of her murder until 2017. He died in 2020. 48 Hours covered the...
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 the late 1930s, nine ladies and one young man posed for this picture at a twirling camp in Taylor County Texas. The Richard and Smith Libraries at Hardin-Simmons University, a private Baptist university in Abilene, donated the photo to a Texas archive. Bob Sanders was the twirling camp...
Yesterday should be left alone because today the world has enough problems just trying to make sure we’ll have a tomorrow. Police Lt. Partane, Yesterday Machine The opening scene of the psychotronic, low-budget film. It played in Texas drive-ins from around 1965-1974. The Yesterday...
The entry deadline is midnight, May 12, 2023. No late entries accepted. Contest starts at 4 p.m. Friday, June 16 and continues thround Sunday, June 18.
This is 60-year-old footage from a news story that aired on WBAP-TV, a television station in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 16, 1952. Subjects names unknown. If you recognize any of these twirlers let us know, especially the young blonde who would be approximately 70 years old today. Citation:...
