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On 1/25/2023 at 10:13 AM, JimF-LowBari said:

Local American Legion corps later named Chocolatiers.

There was a Drum Corps named the "Chocolatiers"....!?  LOL.  How did I not know this?  Wow.  That's awesome.  

The west coast doesn't have nearly as rich a legacy as the east in terms of senior corps.  

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4 hours ago, Fran Haring said:

One of the coolest things during my PA announcing days was getting a chance to read the Marines' writeup at that Hershey show and at the Cumberland, MD, DCA show. 

My friend Alex Duff was the drum corps' public affairs officer, and he liked my work (one of three people who did 😂)... so he let me do the gig instead of the usual "Marine voice" the corps used. Quite an honor! 

your work was never the issue. Now your wardrobe.....

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8 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said:

There was a Drum Corps named the "Chocolatiers"....!?  LOL.  How did I not know this?  Wow.  That's awesome.  

The west coast doesn't have nearly as rich a legacy as the east in terms of senior corps.  

Lol for a year or two in the 70s they merged with a York PA corps called the “White Roses”. And this was a Senior corps. 🤔
OK during the English “war of the roses” the house of York (symbol white rose) fought the house of Lancaster (symbol red rose). Central PA has cities of York and Lancaster. And both call themselves “the … rose city”.

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5 hours ago, JimF-LowBari said:

Lol for a year or two in the 70s they merged with a York PA corps called the “White Roses”. And this was a Senior corps. 🤔
OK during the English “war of the roses” the house of York (symbol white rose) fought the house of Lancaster (symbol red rose). Central PA has cities of York and Lancaster. And both call themselves “the … rose city”.

And both hate the traffic on route 30

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19 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said:

There was a Drum Corps named the "Chocolatiers"....!?  LOL.  How did I not know this?  Wow.  That's awesome.  

The west coast doesn't have nearly as rich a legacy as the east in terms of senior corps.  

You should see a picture of the Hamm’s indians from Minneapolis. And there was a corps called Satan’s Angels from Bellefontaine, Ohio. 

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On 1/26/2023 at 11:35 PM, greg_orangecounty said:

There was a Drum Corps named the "Chocolatiers"....!?  LOL.  How did I not know this?  Wow.  That's awesome.  

The west coast doesn't have nearly as rich a legacy as the east in terms of senior corps.  

That was my dads corps. I may wear the 1952 Chocolatiers jacket to allentown this year  

http://<a href="https://www.linkpicture.com/view.php?img=LPic63d5cd394231f1033601575"><img src="https://www.linkpicture.com/q/IMG_20230128_200437.jpg" type="image"></a>

 

so 2 weeks ago I could post pictures on here, but now I can't not sure what happened, most likely user error.

 

Anyway the jacket has a big Hershey bat then says Chocolaters American Legion post #

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Here's a plan: Truncate the DCA competitive season down to a month, the last 3 weeks of August and the first week in September.

 DCI performers who wished to could then march this extended season with DCA corps after Indy. (Some already do this.) It would be the drum corps equivalent to those post-season football games like the East/West Shrine, the Pro Bowl or the College All-Star events.

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13 minutes ago, TOC said:

How many shows do most DCA corps do now compared to your idea?

I'm not sure. I tried to consult the DCA website, but it seems to be down at present.

I suppose they could do non-judged shows in July or other appearances as a run-up to the competition schedule I suggested but, much as this makes sense to me, I doubt there will be any serious consideration of this scheme.

This is just theoretical, hot-stove-league chatter on my part anyway.

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