It was just after 3:15 when we parked our '67 Dodge Dart 270 on Trophy Row Gary had his '07 HHR Sherrod parked by the stage, Steve walked over to the office Dave was the next to arrive in his '83 Grand Marquis followed by Stan & Maryann in their '05 Escape and Bill & Doris in their '79 T-Bird. When Steve got back we headed to Flippers Tom, Bunny drove by with Jim & Joy in his '66 Malibu, Bill arrived in his '63 Parisienne all five joined us after they had parked their vehicles. The only other arrivals while we were eating were Ray in his '32 Ford Coupe followed by John in his '57 Chevy 210.

After we got back to Trophy Row set up the 50/50 and greeted Jim and Craig, Bert & Ernie arrived in their '66 Comet Wagon, Greg & Carol in their '40 Ford, Pablo & Nilda brought out their '96 Taurus, Ann brought Pat in her '92 Corvette and Vin brought Chuck in his '65 Comet. We had a nice surprise Ralph & Ulla strolled into Trophy Row with pictures of their new puppy and '35 Plymouth. Gayle was the only one of his group out tonight in his '34 Ford Coupe the others had gone to see the Blue Man Group at Universal, Rosemary & Dan arrived in her 2000 Mustang Convertible, Bill & Carrollyn in their '59 Pontiac, Nancy was in the '91 Mustang Convertible she assures us that Pep is fine just waiting for the warmer weather to return. Lori was in her daily driver tonight we welcomed Alan in his '72 Mustang, Mike & Seth brought out the '92 Sonoma, Larry & Karen "ITZA40" arrived on Saturday for the season and joined us tonight, Glen seems to be enjoying his '65 VW, Juan arrived in his '66 VW Notchback, followed by Juan in his '76 Mini 1000, Laura was in her '98 Firebird, "Red Racer" Ted brought out his Camera, Lynn was in her '49 Ford Pickup and last but not least Rene joined us on his bicycle, the total number of cruiser cars was 26.

I saw quite a few of our regular spectators among the crowd enjoying Jim and Craig’s entertainment at one point in the evening Gary counted 27 couples dancing, he has a good vantage point from the balcony were he operates the spot lights, this was in addition to the ladies doing their line dancing. Scotty was on duty and Tracy did some ticket selling, Gary and Dave are so versatile you never know where they are going to be next. I nearly got to the end without mentioning the weather it was cool but not too bad, there were many stories about the conditions up north being shared from family reports. My Denver grandchildren are disappointed they have not had a flake of snow to play in, I am told the mountains protect them so plans are being made to take them on an outing at the weekend to “visit the snow”.

Steve awarded Cruiser of the week to Cruiser #96 Bill Ash with his '63 Parisienne, Bunny did a great job selling 50/50 tickets Cruiser #77 Juan had the winning ticket for the $58 jackpot. Cruiser #122 James Butler was not out so the Cruise-A-Matic goes up to $100 next week Cruiser #44 Nancy Nichols went home with the Valvoline case of oil for her '91 Mustang Convertible.

Thank You to Old Town for inviting us out every week, to the Old Town Merchants Association for sponsoring “The Dukes”, 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, Valvoline, to Tracy Old Town’s Events Director who brings us the “Rock at the Clock” event to Gary & Dave our volunteer staff 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”.

See you all Next Week “Same Time, Same Place”



 

It was good to have "The Dukes" back on our stage!

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