Thursday, May 19, 2016

Major(ette) TBT

It's interesting what you come across while trying to organize photos, and these are some of the most entertaining ones that I've discovered in the past several weeks.

Let's return to 1974. There is an energy crisis with odd-even gas rationing; construction begins on the Alaska pipeline, Nixon resigns, and Stephen King publishes his first novel, Carrie. There is also this:


A cheerleader and a majorette in the same family! Their parents must have been so proud to take a picture of these lovely young girls, cheering and twirling in the living room.

A year later, it gets even better. Bonny has clawed her way up through the competitive group of majorettes to become captain. It may have also been the case that nobody else wanted to do it and the title meant absolutely nothing except she had gold tassels on her boots instead of purple, but the exact circumstances have become a bit fuzzy 41 years later.


We can see the skill and precision that Bonny demanded in her corps. Many Some of them are even facing forward at the same time!


If only there were more photos of these talented young girls in action!

9 comments:

  1. I LOVE this! I had a good friend who was a twirler. I was so envious of her mad twirling skills. She showed me how to do a few things and gave me one of her used batons back in middle school - so I could drive my parents crazy trying "tricks" in the living room. (I think she had gold tassles on her boots, too, by the time we graduated.) Love your old photos -- and memories.

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  2. How fun to read the story of Bonny the Major(ette)! I played with a baton and learned to do some of the twirls, but was banned from the living room. It was "outside only" play. :)

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  3. This. Is. The. Best! I am truly in awe of your mad skills - I not only had 2 left feet, but 2 left hands also. Coordination and Kat were an oxymoron!

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  4. What a great post! I love seeing pictures of you from your competition days!

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  5. This is the best! Clawing!!! I couldn't twirl a baton to save myself. Thanks for this post Bonny!

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  6. LOVE this! you were certainly talented and how wonderful that your parents took photos ... that's a lot of band practice, huh?!?

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  7. If only there were video of that performance!!!

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  8. My mother was a majorette! We used to LOVE playing dress-up with her costumes and boots (I wonder what ever happened to that stuff). There's a FABULOUS series of photos that my grandpa took of her in the front yard in all her various outfits, including one where she's sitting on the roof ridge... and one that SHE took of HIM "marching" with the baton. Makes me tear up a little, wishing that I'd have had the chance to get to know that man a little better!! Anyway, what a treasure!

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