American Graffiti Cruise Night

[afterburn 549]

Sure, we all pine for the old days...sometimes.
Sometimes we all get old-er
But in truth, sometimes I miss the Hot rods, and I cant be the only one, as there are Hot Rod shows everywhere.
Over here we have the Lake George Hot Rods Show, then the Porsche thing up in Lake Placid this year.
Out west, there is plenty!
Even the Winthrop Car show in WA state where one is expected to light up the tires !
I reminisce about the gooder old days when we would show off our cars at the Subdued car show between Herfies and Bunks, where the girls would serve us on roller skates.
The cops did not get mad; they just poured out our beer in the parking lot if we got too rowdy.
Today's kids live in a virtual world and do nothing?
The world keeps changing ..
Now it's coffee and donuts ..with not the same passion.
Yea we are older.
Did we ruin the kids?
Helmets on bicycles or die?
Kids that cant change money back without a calculator.
IDk
We went from horse and carriage to the moon 69 years!
Now AI is goin to do what?
Yea....I miss the cruise nights
Whats nexxt?

[pwd72s]

^On some Saturday nights, we'd go to the bigger cruising scenes of Salem or Portland... Yeah, fond memories.

[pwd72s]

[A930Rocket]

Who’s the girl riding with Harrison Ford?

[Dixie]

I'll always remember cruising Myrtle Beach in the late '70s to early '80s. Okay, I wasn't doing the cruising. I was curbside with my friends on Ocean Boulevard, jumping into the car of whoever was cute, and interested. We'd spend hours cruising up and down the Boulevard. And when I wasn't riding in some guy's car? Id be riding the Scrambler at the Pavilion, or going to be hear this country band, Wild Country (aka Alabama), at the Bowery.

[afterburn 549]

A30 rocket
Candy Clark is the google answer
Candy Clark - Wikipedia
Candace June Clark[1] (born June 20, 1947) [2] is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 film American Graffiti, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and her role as Mary Lou in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.

[gregpark]

And the American Graffiti hot chick in the '56 Tbird was Suzanne Somers

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Candy Clark is the google answer

That's but one google answer

Candy Clark (she played a pretty big part)



Also Debralee Scott (Mary Hartman)



And then the gal I'm pretty sure is in the car during the race.

Linda Christensen (not many pics available)

[wilnj]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Sure, we all pine for the old days...sometimes.
Sometimes we all get old-er
But in truth, sometimes I miss the Hot rods, and I cant be the only one, as there are Hot Rod shows everywhere.
Over here we have the Lake George Hot Rods Show, then the Porsche thing up in Lake Placid this year.
Out west, there is plenty!
Even the Winthrop Car show in WA state where one is expected to light up the tires !
I reminisce about the gooder old days when we would show off our cars at the Subdued car show between Herfies and Bunks, where the girls would serve us on roller skates.
The cops did not get mad; they just poured out our beer in the parking lot if we got too rowdy.
Today's kids live in a virtual world and do nothing?
The world keeps changing ..
Now it's coffee and donuts ..with not the same passion.
Yea we are older.
Did we ruin the kids?
Helmets on bicycles or die?
Kids that cant change money back without a calculator.
IDk
We went from horse and carriage to the moon 69 years!
Now AI is goin to do what?
Yea....I miss the cruise nights
Whats nexxt?

Many of the towns we used to cruise in have anti-cruising ordinances now. The same people that were partaking in their day got rich, old and cranky and put a stop to it.

Unfortunately, the closest thing to that grassroots culture is the street takeover crowd and there's nothing wholesome about that.

[sc_rufctr]

What a great old movie!

Then Happy Days 1974. At first I didn't want to watch it but my older brother sold it to me.
I watched every episode!

Grease in 78 was something magical. I'll never forget that feeling. I was 13 years old.

Thanks for the memories.

EDIT... Then I think about David Bowie's song "Golden Years" (1975). The 70s were like that for me.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by wilnj

Unfortunately, the closest thing to that grassroots culture is the street takeover crowd and there's nothing wholesome about that.

Cars and Coffee and pop-up car shows offer a tiny glimpse into the past, if you were lucky enough to be part of a Friday and Saturday night cruise scene.

And there's the occasional big cruise-in at like a fairgrounds or something.

If you look you can find the car culture. Or just the cars.

[wilnj]

Yes but I think that’s the stale version of car culture that the OP was referring to.

[craigster59]

This is a nice coffee table book to have. We would drive all the way to Van Nuys to cruise in the late 70's...

https://rickmackvannuys.com/van-nuys-boulevard-1972/

[afterburn 549]

Wilnj
exactly !

[Zeke]

In that scene it was Mackenzie Phillips. Bad shot but through the process of elimination...

No, kids still do stuff in cars at night. It's more take-overs and donuts than drive ins but I think that's mainly because there are no drive ins. We have taken all the places away. There is still a cruise in Whittier which has been going on for some 70 years. I know there are some cruises in one form or another all across the country, but the but the number of and popularity of them is significantly reduced from the heyday.

AFA car shows go I think there are way more now than ever. Cars and coffee is kind of a cruise but for adults.

[afterburn 549]

Philps was riding with the Milliner Character.

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

A30 rocket
Candy Clark is the google answer
Candy Clark - Wikipedia
Candace June Clark[1] (born June 20, 1947) [2] is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 film American Graffiti, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and her role as Mary Lou in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.

And she had short marriages to an odd combo of people. Evangelist Marjoe Gortner, producer Jeff Wald and Apple co founder Steve Wozniac

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Philps was riding with the Milliner Character.

You're right and I'm mistaken. It was Linda Christensen.

[pwd72s]

In the big race scene, the one where "Bob Falfa" (Ford) crashed the black Chevy, it was Cindy Williams in the chevy with Ford. She Played "Laurie", the girlfriend of "Steve Bolander" (Ron Hopward). They'd had a fight and she somehow ended up in the passenger seat of the Chevy...

Milt, maybe you should see the movie again? Yep, Phillips rode with the Millner Character in the deuce. He was able to get her to confess where she lived so he could get her home before the big race was agreed to. Millner had no passenger in the race...he urged Laurie to get out of the Chevy before the race. She, being angry at Steve, told Millner to mind his own business...

[afterburn 549]

Internet says Cindy Clark was one answer
And then Linda Christensen also .
I think you are correct.