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Dear 1960’s and 70’s TB and CDC Alumni –

Cascades history is like the transitive property: If A = B and B = C, then A = C. It doesn’t matter what variables you plug-in, the results are the same.

If the Thunderbirds are related to the Thunderbird Cadets, and the Thunderbird Cadets are related to the Cascade Cadets, then the Thunderbirds are related to the Cascade Cadets. Everybody is related. We all have the same daddy(ies). The histories are different. The accomplishments are different. The organizations are different. But that doesn’t mean we’re not all related. You might want to disown your relatives, but in the end, like it or not, they’re still your relatives.

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The Thunderbird Cadets disappeared at the end of the 1965 season, never to return.

Summer of 1966

The first known photo of the Cascade Cadets.

Photo taken in Seattle (Greenwood) Washington

1966 Woodrow Wilson Jr HS color guard program was started by Rod Stubbs, who was Principal at the school.

Mr. Stubbs along with Jack Avery started the Cascade Cadets in June of 1966.

Notice the girls are wearing Cascade Cadet skirts and boots.

January 21, 1967 at Salem Optirama

The Cadet uniform still has the black shoes worn in 1966, but now this drum major has the white blouse, dickey, and cummerbund. The girl is actually a Wilson Jr HS color guard member. They wore the same uniforms as the Cascade Cadet color guard was wearing. Per our records, the Wilson guard was only active in 1966 and ’67 and was available as a physical education class.

January 21, 1967

The Cascade Cadets at Salem Optirama wearing shakos borrowed from the Royal Lancers.

These were their first uniforms. Black pants & shoes and white short sleeve shirts.

Photo compliments of Jerry Logan (Seattle Shamrocks and Thunderbirds)

1967 at Wilson Jr High (Seattle)

All uniforms have now been updated.

The green bass drums and green-gold snares are hand-me-downs from the Seattle Thunderbird Cadets,

from which the Cascade Cadets were formed. The multi-colored flags also belonged to the TB Cadets.

See the 1963 Thunderbird Cadets below, for the drums & flags in the photo above.

In 1968 the Thunderbirds were on the decline with lower membership numbers. Their last known show we could find was July 27, 1968.

The PNE parade was August 17th. The Cascade Cadets joined them in this parade to increase both corps numbers.

The Thunderbirds did not field a corps in 1969, but came back for their last year in 1970.

1968 PNE parade in Vancouver Canada.

Thunderbirds in green skirts and red sashes. Cascade Cadets in red skirts and blue cummerbunds.

(Same as article above)

1968 PNE parade. Thunderbirds have cream tops with green collars & red sashes (second row, this end).

Cascade Cadets have white blouses with red dickies and no sashes (front row, this end).

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