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ereese

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    Fort Edward Vagabonds, Green Sabres, Rochester Crusaders, Syracuse Brigadiers, Rochester Phoenix, Mighty St. Joe's
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1974 Anaheim Kingsmen
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1975
  • Gender
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  • Location
    Chili, New York

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  1. Yep. Oatka(pronounced O-ott-Ka) festival summer 2014
  2. Brings back memories with Memorial Day coming up. BITD it wasn't unusual for us to march a parade with the Empire State Grenadiers(to become the Interstatesmen), St. Joe's from Green Island(to become Avant Garde), any number of corps from Pittsfield like the Monarchs, Targets, Marksmen or the Boys Club Cavaliers, Continental Cadets from Cattskill, Speigleaires, Green Sabres, Hudson Falls Crusaders, Johnstown Fusiliers. Just to name a couple. Man, those were the days.
  3. Yup, the Fort Edward Vagabonds. The leaderhosen uniforms were an interim between the old satin blouse/shako unis of the 50's to the new satin blouse/gestapo hats of the 60's. Believe it or not they were well liked by the fans and the corps mebers. We even had a St. Bernard that marched with us.
  4. Very good Don. Wahcaloosencoochaleva, The Great Carrying Place or the English name, Fort Edward. Now name the corps.
  5. Two famous residents of this town were Natty Bumpo and Robert Rogers.
  6. The name of the town that the feature is from is Wahcaloosencoochaleeva.
  7. Some people thought they were bums, but just like the Dodgers they weren't that bad.
  8. That was it....what a great time.....get it???? Pun intended. I don't believe I just one-pun-upped Andy.
  9. O.K. here is the story that I started earlier about Charlie Johnson and the 1970 Dream. The night before the dream we (Rochester) marched the Waverly show. When the scores were announced, Sky had won the show and were presented the 1st place trophy. Welp, Truman went through the sheets and found a mistake, and the judges agreed there was mistake, and Baltimore should have won the show. So there is a bunch of us drinking with the drumline from NY, you know the usual suspects Ray, Wes, Rocco, and I could have sworn Andy was there but ????(hic) Truman approaches Winky and demands the trophy be turned over to Baltimore, riiiiight. So things start getting dicey, Lefty intervenes and clears the parking lot of Sky and tells everybody to get on the bus. Well there was a bunch of us that didn't want to miss this show, so we decided to tag along and go to the Dream, the next day. I think we partied that night at a Holiday Inn? in Hasbrouck Heights?? Anyhow, the Skyliners were boiled and we never went to bed. As my memory, remembers.........during the Dream, Skys hornline was in their company front playing their signature Little Old New York ending heading towards the finish line, Charlie Johnson had the A-section posted just before the finish line. Sky's hornline passes the A-section before Charlie gives the forward-march command. Hence a 1pt penalty. Here are the scores for Waverly and the Dream. And if you notice the Dream scores, there is a 1pt. difference between Hawthorne and New York. Could that be the 1pt penalty??? Of course, this could all be a dream...... 1 Yankee Rebels 77.850 2 New York Skyliners 77.600 3 Sunrisers 72.000 4 Hamburg Kingsmen 71.200 5 Rochester Crusaders 68.750 6 Les Diplomates 62.450 The Dream 1 Hawthorne Caballeros 83.300 2 New York Skyliners 82.300 3 Connecticut Hurricanes 80.100 4 Yankee Rebels 79.650 5 Reading Buccaneers 79.550
  10. I think I know who this guy is. Is there any truth to the story that he was really in the bag at the '70 or '71 Dream, and due to his condition caused a penalty, which led to Sky losing the show? We can discuss later after he is revealed.
  11. Amen Donny, he was one of the best. What a sweet, funny, talented guy. He was in that cadre, that you were a part of, that made Phoenix what it was. RIP Sugar Bear, I'll miss you.
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