Jeff Ream Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Ah yes..... 70s Westshore had nothing on the later members.... Friday night the buses are heading to a show and they stop at the McDonalds in Phillipsburg, NJ so Hershman can tell the manager we'll be stopping on the way back. Most of us never knew it as is was the middle of the night, but the next morning at practice two guys have a McDonalds flag on an extra flag pole. Hershman comes out and sez: "I don't know who did it. I don't want to know who did it. But we're STOPPING there tonight so maybe some people won't want ot come out of the bus in case you were seen". That night we were checking if an accomplice was getting some meals to go for the guys hiding on the bus. Bus driver Howies version: "Saw the flag go down and realize it didn't come back up. All I could think of was ####### Westshore". One of the guys used to post here and also led the infamous "Underwear Walks" in the early 80s. Edit: Hairbear, need the details on the cooler diving, don't want to mess that up with the little I heard. Think McShane was also the one who walked up to the lifeguard with a pair of swim trunks in his hand saying "Someone lost these in the pool... oh wait they're mine". Might have been the hotel that the corps got a police escort out of town. Only to be topped by the legend that the Rhode Island Matadors got a police escort out of CANADA around 1974. someone would fill a cooler with many different beers. you tell McShane what you wanted...he'd dive in and get you that brand. and the bathing suit story is 100% true. in 90, we had a bass drummer ( not me) who would take underwear run thrus to the extreme. he wouldnt wear any we also had an issue in a McDonalds in ohio. they were running some Garfield the cat promotion, with big hanging Garfields coming from the ceiling. apparently after we left, so did the Garfields. the busses got checked, but they weren't found. But a week later when we did an exhibition at a DCE show, they appeard leaning up against the Cadets busses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 (edited) someone would fill a cooler with many different beers. you tell McShane what you wanted...he'd dive in and get you that brand. And from the description I heard.... dive = face first into the cooler. Of course Westshore had the tradition of cooler surfing. Last few rows in the back of the bus had coolers covering the floor. You even walked on the tops of the coolers (aka surfing) or on the arm rests to get to the crapper. I was an arm rest crawler (OK I weighed a LOT less then) but the danger there was in someone had their head on the armrest sleeping. They'd get a foot to the head and you could fall off the armrest. Edit for you younger folks: Westshoremen was a SENIOR corps so this only surfaced on the weekends. Edited December 9, 2009 by JimF-3rdBari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHall Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I heard about that several years ago. when several members of your corps send black roses to a certain nemesis judge, it tends to get noticed.yeah, I think that qualifies as 'infamous'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozarkbugler Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 There was a guy that would climb everything... lamp posts, road signs, gym rafters.We pulled into a McDonalds with a state trooper car parked outside. When he drove away he had no license plates. Another guy was famous for finding a hair 3/4 of the way through every Big Mac he ever bought and always got free one. This one got my memory banks open. We got into our gym for overnight and the gymnastics rings were hanging down. A guy grabbed them to show us what he could do on the rings. Meanwhile, someone found the ropes that hoist the rings back up into the ceiling and lifted them up. Here's this guy left hanging about 30 fee in the air. Too funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Late 60s story from another Senior corps. Two shows over the weekend and two corps were in a hotel the night between the shows. Waaay after midnight they decide to serenade each other behind the hotel. After a while here comes the cop in the police cruiser to tell them to knock if off. After a while the police cruiser goes to the front of the hotel...... Problem was the cop was still standing in the back of the hotel.... Cop goes running after the cruiser which was parked by the front door by the time he got there. Runs in the hotel and only person there is a guy reading the paper. Cop gets back in the cruiser before it disappers again. Yeah, guy reading the newspaper did it.... And the guy who told me the story later became a cop in Gettysburg, PA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Murray Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Late 60s story from another Senior corps. Two shows over the weekend and two corps were in a hotel the night between the shows. Waaay after midnight they decide to serenade each other behind the hotel. After a while here comes the cop in the police cruiser to tell them to knock if off. After a while the police cruiser goes to the front of the hotel......Problem was the cop was still standing in the back of the hotel.... Cop goes running after the cruiser which was parked by the front door by the time he got there. Runs in the hotel and only person there is a guy reading the paper. Cop gets back in the cruiser before it disappers again. Yeah, guy reading the newspaper did it.... And the guy who told me the story later became a cop in Gettysburg, PA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Drum Corps Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 The Rochester Crusaders baritone player that many of us know and love dearly, showed up in Gloversville in a beer truck that he took from Rochester. It wasnt his truck of course. DA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyfromhowardst Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We had a mellophone player show up one day to rehearsal with a bullet hole through the bell of his horn. And with no explaination. Of course, occasionally a certain rudimental base player would show up in an altered state. He dropped the bass drum as he was running to get into formation and proceeded to kick it down the field every time he tried to pick it up, reminescent of a Charlie Chaplin movie. I still laugh when I imagine that scene. Of course the director and his wife were none too pleased. Were we in the same corps at the same time? I still see trails...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Of course Westshore had the tradition of cooler surfing. A similar situation with Sunrisers... and you could always tell who a rookie was. He or she would bring a styrofoam cooler on the bus. Of course, that one would be obliterated by the first few folks who stepped on it!!!! Lesson learned, rook... bring a hard-top cooler next time....LOL Fran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 And from the description I heard.... dive = face first into the cooler. Of course Westshore had the tradition of cooler surfing. Last few rows in the back of the bus had coolers covering the floor. You even walked on the tops of the coolers (aka surfing) or on the arm rests to get to the crapper. I was an arm rest crawler (OK I weighed a LOT less then) but the danger there was in someone had their head on the armrest sleeping. They'd get a foot to the head and you could fall off the armrest. Edit for you younger folks: Westshoremen was a SENIOR corps so this only surfaced on the weekends. the best was singing the Spider Man theme while walking the arm rests and yes McShane went face first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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