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“When New York Customs House employee William St. John organized a junior drum and bugle corps in 1932, the boys of his corps averaged 9 years of age. They lived in the area around the west end of 125th Street, where the West Side Subway rumbles over head.  There isn’t much room for kids to play there, except when police close off nearby La Salle Street as a play street in the hot summer months.” …