Get Well and Hurry Back Gary!

We did things a little differently today Steve dropped me at the office to see Tracy tonight Old Town was hosting the Annual Hospitality Event. I met up with Steve on Trophy Row were he had parked our '67 Dodge Dart 270 Bill & Doris had their '79 T-Bird parked by the stage, Emil arrived in his '48 Ford "High School Flame" and parked next to us. Linda & Larry arrived and it was time to go to Flippers, while we were there the heavens opened and the wind picked up, as we already had our food it was easier to put up a line of umbrellas to shelter behind than try to move inside the restaurant. John drove by in his '57 Chevy 210, Bobby & Melissa with a full complement of friends were in their '08 Harley Davidson F150, Ray brought out his '32 Ford Coupe.

When we got back to Trophy Row the rain stopped, at least it cooled everything down a little Dave had arrived Mesha & Chris would join us later, Ken & Audrey were in their '06 Mustang, Larry & Gator brought out their 2004 Dodge Hemi Truck, Stan & Maryann were in their '10 VW Jetta, Lynn arrived in her '08 Avalanche and Lori had her '04 Expedition out, Juan braved the rain in a '59 Doon Buggy, Tom & Bunny brought out the '66 Malibu, Robert, Norma & Lori joined us in the '06 Mustang, George arrived in his '05 Yukon, Vinny was in his '04 Dakota, Mark and his Wife brought Lee out to join us in a '59 Caddy, Joe, Kathy, Paul & Kathy were in the '68 Mustang and last but not least Tim in his problematic '87 Olds Cutlass arrived bringing the total number of cruiser cars to 19.

Gary and Ann had set up the backdrop, David joined them later. The Dukes arrived to set up their equipment, in preparation for the evening’s entertainment to start at 6 pm. Guests from the Hospitality Industry started arriving keeping Tracy and her “sign in” crew busy, they still had a check in line when we left about 8:30, Jeri was tending the bar outside the Tropical Breeze.

We had 20 participants for the 7:30 Old Town Stroll after which Steve awarded Cruiser of the week to Cruiser #130 Bobby & Melissa Tillman in their '08 Harley Davidson F150.

Maryann did a great job selling 50/50 tickets Elizabeth a spectator from Orlando had the winning ticket for the $37 jackpot.

Kim drew Cruiser #84 Butch & Stephanie Tengelin who were not out so the Cruise-A-Matic goes up to $50 next week.

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, to Tracy Old Town’s Events Director who brings us the “Little Darlin’s Street Party” 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”.

A special Thank You to everyone who braved the rain and came out tonight we were getting reports of bad weather all around us but fortunately it passed us early.
 

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

It is good to have "The Dukes"  on our stage!

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