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Mr. Toot is the mascot not only of the North Iowa Band Festival, but also for Mason City as a whole. His image has appeared on everything from T-Shirts to business cards to city light poles. Now his image also appears on the geocaching map just south of Mason City Iowa. Each of these puzzles will include a fact or story in theme with the art series. Some may also include a question or two for you to answer correctly to find the coordinates.
Trivia
High school bands came from all over the country — more than 100 of them - to march in the 1962 Band Festival parade. Jim Reynolds of Clear Lake, a trumpet player in the Clear Lake High School band, remembers one of the out-of-state bands in particular. Reynolds, a senior in high school at the time who later became a band teacher and director, said, “I had my first real job back then as a night clerk at the Lake Shore Hotel. “That’s where the band from Bossier City, La., was staying. When their bus pulled up in front of the Hotel, we played ‘Dixie’ for them,” he said. “Another thing I remember about that band — the day before the parade they took their horns and put them in the lake and washed them.” Reynolds said the bands and the band directors took the competition for awards seriously on parade day. “We saw the band from Lockport, Ill., lining up and everyone was just gawking, they looked so good. One of their kids was fooling around and he got pulled out and replaced,” he said. Of the 121 bands participating, Lockport took top honors and Bossier City took second place.
Bossier City HS Band continues to have sucess
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Reynolds also recalled that back in thoes days, after the parade, all the bands gathered at Roosevelt Stadium for a mass band concert. "It never worked," said Reynolds. "There were 100 bands. You'd have some bands at one end of the field playing one measure and bands on the other side of the field playing another measure."
Another lasting memory for his is how tired he was. "I worked all night at the hotel, marched in the parade and went home and went to bed," he said.
Clear Lake, Iowa Band
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As of November 1st, 2018 in order to make this part of the GeoArt safer the final coordinates have changed. If you have solved coordinates prior to this date they are no longer valid.