ASH Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 last friday night i had to stop by advance auto which is in long strip type stores , upon leaving i stopped and she said what's wrong , i said nothing i just sat there and said right there was the main drag strip you drive down thru go on down turn into bowling alley parking lot and loop around and head back , i said its friday night there used to be cars lined up to the curb side by side for a almost a mile . people hanging out , bsing lining up races to happen later down on the lane where the races were . now im 51 and old lol. i told my kids you missed out on alot of living before facebook, social media and all that online crap , now apparently people have watch parties online and chat about it . i just right down to the gut miss it . my girls still do not understand cruising etc they are like " you drive down here turn around and drive back 100 times ? why lol . the local drive in where you pile in 8 people in trunk and pay per vehicle . our one buddy had old dodge polara that we could get like 11 people in lol . local drive in eatery , and arcades . we had one arcade everyone hung out played pool , games ans the payphone on wall was the party line , the only time the phone would ring is someone giving the word so and so is having a party then everyone bails for the party . man now i feel like watching some dazed and confused . i sat there like 5 more minutes and my cell phone rung and it was grand kid Piper asking could she spend the night with grammie and me and watch paw patrol lol. then i put the suv in drive and headed home lol . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 The 80s? I did the "drag Main" routine in 69 - 74 and it was all but over by then. Guys would soup-up all kinds of weird contraptions and create suicide machines. Just something to do. I knew one guy who had a 69 Camaro with a 327 that was unreal - in a straight line. My neighbor had a 72(?) GTO with a 455 HD that you could literally watch the gas gauge move when he stepped on it. And this was all very tame compared to previous eras when giants walked the Earth. Great times. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 they cruised here in the 70ties also same drag but i was just a lil fellow , mom would drive to the A&P grocery shopping in same strip , and i remember her holding my hand waiting for a chance to dart thru the vehicles moving to get in the store . i never asked her why she went on friday nights i know she was pissed alot on those nights lol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 funny back then people were in public drinking , riding drinking , you only seen a cop car every 4 hours maybe . i had 2 buds that had vans they would cruise with sliding side door open , and people hanging out ,hollering etc . knew a dude had big ass caddy ,cut roof off with a saw , he would fill the whole car with hay and give hay rides lol. we just on the hoods talking and having good ole times. watching cars then we would cruise and back and forth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Valley Mills Waco, TX ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) In St. Louis, we had Hall Street for drag racing. It was a fairly long, wide avenue in an industrisal area, so it was pretty much empty at night. Lads with loud, fast cars filled it up on Friday and Saturday nights and then it was off to Steak n' Shake where to cool kids showed off their cars by parking for curb service. I had neither a loud, fast car or a cool car, nor friends that did. NB this was in the `1960s, back before dirt was invented. There was also a drive in theater, the Olympic, that showed X-rated movies. Going to the Olympic with buddies, a case of beer and packages of Swisher Sweet cigars at 16 or 17 was a rite of passage. We were all worried that they wouldn't let us in, but they couldn't care less how old we were, just that we had the price of admission. Edited October 12, 2019 by tous 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 People still cruise its just done in a different way and places now. Cars and Coffee fun runs caffeine and Chrome its just different now,mostly because its been pushed out of view and the cars have changed. not that long ago i`d hang out on University Ave in Mpls at Porky`s. then it moved out to Lake Calhoun its there,just different. and the cars are way,way faster now and way,way more expensive. when i was younger i used to cruise Broadway starting at dusk and at 9 PM the fast cars ended up at Mike`s Donuts and put together Drags at the Airport,then Roast Beef sandwiches and Beer and partying,,, 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 Cars faster is right lol. In 87 I bought brand new gn and it was fastest production car with 245 hp. Then the Corvette boys at gm couldn't have a Buick outrunning them so so gm killed the gn platform. I recently read where gm is bringing back the grand national name along with t type. The history is cool to read I had old lady t bone me and totalled it iwas just sick. I'm buying another gn in a week with 62000 miles. I will post pics when I get it home. All stock. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 College freedom, cars (bikes), races, alcohol, fights, girls. Life Was Good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) 1973 Charger Bronze with black top T shifter, jacked up big time, lowered the front end, 8 track, backseat full of speakers that car had no weight in the rear at all. Burnouts all day my brother borrowed it one day, stopped at a red light on Main St...two girls jumped in. I heard that story for years good times . Edited October 12, 2019 by Dric902 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 9 hours ago, ASH said: they cruised here in the 70ties also same drag but i was just a lil fellow , mom would drive to the A&P grocery shopping in same strip , and i remember her holding my hand Our Main Drag also had an A&P parking lot "anchor" at one end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieAdams Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Dodge Street was our strip but city ordnances killed it 30 years ago... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Back in the 60's we had Eat N Park on Banksville Rd. Someone painted BID on the Crane Ave. wall across the street. That stood for Banksville International Dragway. Good old days. tom. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy R Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Cruising Riverside in Spokane, late 70's. Four lanes packed all the way through downtown. Muscle cars galore. Plenty of cops there, but for the most part there were no problems, kept all the kids in one spot and they could be supervised. Great times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Commerce Street in Longview, Wa. in the 60's. Cars lined up door to door. 2 lanes each way with parallel parking on each side. Cruise from the A&W at one end to Captain Yobi's at the other end. It was much like American Graffiti. Around here we used to have tons of snow machines running around at all hours during the winter and atv's in the summer. Don't see so much of that now. Everyone is too busy playing with their phones. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huski92 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 The strip in Panama City. Lots of miles put in that road. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 15 hours ago, ASH said: they cruised here in the 70ties also same drag but i was just a lil fellow , mom would drive to the A&P grocery shopping in same strip , and i remember her holding my hand waiting for a chance to dart thru the vehicles moving to get in the store . i never asked her why she went on friday nights i know she was pissed alot on those nights lol When I was young Friday nights was when the stores were open to allow the working people to shop without claiming their weekend of rest. So most people shopped on Friday night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Everyone knows you don't cruise in the 80s. You run in the 90s! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 When I was in high school in the mid 70's the local cruise was down Springs Road to the local Hardee's, an old fashioned one with a lot of picnic tables out front. Every table crowded with high school kids, parking lot full of cars, with more cars constantly driving through the parking lot. I had a 1969 Chevy Nova 350SS. Wish I still had it. I miss those days. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 It is nice to hear that you lads enjoyed life as a teenager as much as I did. We pretty much did the same things, even if 20 years apart. I can only wish such happiness on this and the next generations, doing the stuff that we did, enjoying our buddies and the simple pleasures. First, amputate the damned device from your hand. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 A Sonic drive-in at one end of the loop. A yuge Kmart parking lot at the other end, for arranging races and fights. A large park, along the lake, a couple miles down the hill at one end, for smoochin' and stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Bristol TN-VA in the 1950s...Originally the state line (in State Street natch) ran along the curb on the Virginia side. Tennessee gave Bristol VA enough of the street to put the state line in the center. The towns grew and eventually annexed another mile or so along State Street on the western side of town. In the part which was annexed the state line still ran along the curb on the Virginia side. Some wise acres started drag racing on State Street west beginning where the annexation started. Virginia cops said they couldn’t do anything as that was in Tennessee. Tennessee cops said they couldn’t respond because it was in Virginia. Soon Tennessee gave Virginia that part of State Street which they thought had been annexed. Meantime the two cities/counties involved made police from one town unpaid deputy sheriffs on the other side of the line. Peace and quiet returned... or at least settled back to normal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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