Tuesday Trivia - October 2, 2007

Last week, Goober asked you to name all the rooms in the Annex. Here's the "official" answer in clockwise order entering through the front doors on Walsh Avenue:

• (1) the foyer (area with the telephone)
• (2) the gym (including the open area at the far end leading to the other exit doors)
• (3) coat room (used multiple ways over the years, including storage of the pantihose we used to sell)
• (4) boys bathroom
• (5) boys bathroom
• (6) the room that held the equipment used to address the parish collection envelopes (was originally a classroom)
• (7) the kitchen (used by the drummers)
• (8) the boiler room (used by the drummers on rare occasions)
• (9) classroom (used by the horn line originally, then by the drum line)
• (10) the stage (also was originally used as a classroom)
• (11) the stage storage room (to the right of the stage on floor level)
• (12) classroom
• (13) classroom
• (14) classroom (yes, there are 3 classrooms on that side!)
• (15) girls bathroom
• (16) girls bathroom
• (17) the left coat room (otherwise known as our equipment room)

In addition, there is a storage area above the equipment room, and the "bingo ledge" (they used to call the bingo numbers from there at one time) above the entry doors. Neither is technically a room, but part of the architecture.

Here were the replies (in the order in which I received them):

• Priscilla French Lyons:
  OK, lets try, As you walk in the entrance, to your right you have the equipment room, then 2 girls bathrooms, around the corner is 2 classrooms that we were never allowed to touch then there was the stage on the other wall (my favorite spot!) then around the next corner is the horn room (or the one horrible memory I have of all the color guard having to go in one by one to try out for drum major into that room) then the next room was the drum room then I think there might be a small kitchen that way the first room used for the drum room then turn the corner and you have 2 boys bathrooms, then the room where we paid dues and kept uniforms the back out the doors???
• Karen DeAndrea Aldiero
  Okay, This is how I remember those rooms...
  1st: "side room where drumline paracticed" or "the room where it took me 3 months to play any other note beside low "c"
  2nd: "kitchen" or the room where Mr. Wilke taught the mellophones to "tooey ooey oo"
  3rd: "girls bathroom" or the place where me, cathy, mary & carol would hide out(practice)
  4th " the main room" or the room where Swan would make your knees quake while standing in a pool of your own spit.
  lastly: "the holy classroom" which was usually kept locked against the Saints...
  Hoped you liked my versions...
• Jackie Bodzas
  I might not be too good at this anyway seeing as how I still think I went to “Kidneygarden” in the annex. But to name the rooms is a tough one. Over the years I believe we all played in every room in the building. If the door was unlocked that meant that your section could “hang” in there. I even remember the cymbals practicing in the boys bathroom.
  Three things were for certain: (I think)
  1-the equipment room was the little room to the right of the door as you first walk into the main room.
  2- drumline practiced in the kitchen (which is why I am hard of hearing to this day) till the horn line moved out of the big room on the left(last 2 doors).
  3-horn line moved to the main room after the CG went somewhere else (other building-different night?)

Thanks to Goober for submitting the question and to Priscilla, Karen, and Jackie, for sharing your Annex memories with us!

Our latest Tuesday Trivia question comes from Jackie Bodzas: What were the names of the buses?

Send your answers to joparente.saintsdrumcorps@gmail.com by Monday, October 8th, with Trivia in the subject line so I don't miss your submission. Remember, prizes, prizes, we have no prizes!

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All for now -- corpsdially yours from jo!