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Originally Posted by carnation
When did it go down the toilet? It really happened quickly...back in the day, almost everyone's family would be gathering to watch it and now hardly anyone knows when it's on. I remember when Miss Arkansas won in the mid sixties because my mother was so excited that she was calling the Hogs (oddly enough, that winner ended up being my brother's teacher several years later); I remember when a friend from Mississippi State won and when an Ole Miss Pi Phi won.
I've never been a fan of pageants but the Miss America Pageant was an American institution and then somebody (Trump?) crapped it up.
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I remember when i was a student at Arkansas Miss America 1995( Heather Whtestone) and my roommate were friends and i got to meet her when she was on campus for a speaking tour. Thats was pretty cool!
I use to be one of the many who sat there and watched that pageant every year with my girlfriends growing up with our make shift crowns and spectors. I still watch it to this day when i can find which channel they shuffled it around too.