We would like to thank everyone cruisers, spectators, staff, merchants and entertainers who participated in tonight’s celebration marking one year for the “Duke Davis Memorial Cruise-In” to meet at Old Town during their “Rock at the Clock” event.

As we drove to Old Town we encountered some rain and the skies were not looking good but as always we were optimistic. Our first stop was at the office to get the commemorative pins from Tracy then as we headed back towards the brick street to make our entrance in our '67 Dodge Dart 270 we met up with Emil in his '48 Ford "High School Flame" at the Cruise Office Mesha, Nikki & Gary were getting ready to “Set Up” for the evenings event along with Allan and Scotty.

Gary parked his '07 HHR Sherrod next to the stage, Bill & Doris parked their '79 T-Bird next to him, Larry & Gator arrived in their '93 Chevy Pick Up and Dave arrived in his '83 Grand Marquis, Esther & Asa joined him later. We decided to head to Flippers as the rain had let up and we hoped to have a busy evening ahead of us. Tommy drove by to set up his keyboard, Larry & Andrew brought out their '55 Chevy Bel Air, Charlie joined us after parking his '02 BMW Mini, Tom arrived at the wheel of the '66 Malibu and Bunny was driving the '87 Chevy Suburban. Mike and Nikki took care of us then we headed back to Trophy Row stopping in to see some of the Merchants on the way.

Laura arrived in her '98 Firebird, John & Linda in their '32 Ford Coupe, Warren & Cathy in their 2002 Camaro Pace Car, TRod KT4ROD, Ray in his '32 Ford Coupe, Robert & Francine in their '65 Ford Falcon, Bert & Ernie in their "Elvis Tribute" PT Cruiser, Mike & Seth in their '92 Sonoma, Rosemary & Dan in her 2000 Mustang Convertible, David & Janet in a '67 Plymouth Satellite, Bob in his '68 SS396 Chevelle followed by Nick in his '32 Ford Coupe they had to wait for a break in the rain to head out. "Red Racer" Ted left his '06 Nissan at home so he could concentrate on taking pictures, Joe was in his '63 Ford Galaxie, Cousin Vinny in his '04 Dodge Dakota, Sean in his 2005 Nissan Xterra, Hecmaeli in his 2005 Scion. John brought out his '57 Chevy 210, Richard & Lelia were in their '64 Fairlane, Butch in his '96 Mustang, Billy in his '72 AMC AMX, Juan was in his '66 VW Notchback and Juan was on foot, Bob in his 2007 Corvette, Tim in his '87 Olds Cutlass, Larry & Cris were in their daily driver.

The spectator crowd included many of our regulars “Jazzmine and The Tropical Breeze Group”. Glenda, Carlene & Don, Coy, Judy, Sophie & Paul, Bonnie, Jan, “The Blue Suede Review” with Shawn as lead guitar & Sarah, Tommy on the keyboard, Keith standing in for Jimi on the drums and Paul on bass guitar. Bill & Karen set up the memorabilia table Dwight & Vicky arrived. Many of the ladies were wearing their Poodle Skirts including Vicky. Mary & Larry accompanied by staff from the Florida Living Nursing Center escorted eight residents who had been looking forward to and planning this outing for weeks. Mike Singer KJ4GNI was at the controls of the “Blue Room”. Radio Check Ins included Graham G4HFG, Mike N4HHA who had to turn around and go to work after being almost at Old Town, Tony K4AVD.

After Dwight’s first set Steve awarded Cruiser of the week to The Skord Family: Dave, Esther, Mesha and Asa,  in  their '83 Mercury Grand Marquis, Cruiser # 97 Dan Zappico was not out so the Cruise-A-Matic goes up to $225.00 next week. Bunny did a great job selling 50/50 tickets Sheri from West Virginia had the winning ticket for the $57.00 jackpot.

We had a total of 32 Cruiser Cars ready to Cruise the bricks at 8:30 pm after Dwight’s second set they were led by “The Poodle Skirt Ladies” including Tracy, Mesha, Bunny, Jan and Jazzmine.

Thank You again to everyone for making this a memorable event to Old Town for inviting us out every week, to the Old Town Merchants Association for sponsoring “A Tribute to the King”, to Out of This World Embroidery/Custom Tags, The Old Town General Store, Knives & Things, Toy Time, Electronic Town, The Gold Hut, Kandlestiks, Wound ‘N Around and Old Town Leather, to Tracy Old Town’s Events Director who brings us the “Rock at the Clock” event to Gary& Dave our volunteer TCB guy’s and to all of the Spectators and Cruisers with or without their cars, who come out “Rain or Shine, Hot or Cold” to make this a great evening in our “Home Town”.
 

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