Car cruise kicks off for two thousand fifteen season, Local News
Car cruise kicks off for two thousand fifteen season
- BY RIKKI CASON [email protected]
- Apr 27, 2015
FILE PHOTOClassic cars line the streets during a two thousand fourteen Monday Night Cruise event in Ida Fritz Park.
For the past fifteen years, the Lockport Monday Night Cruise Optimist Club has been dedicated to bringing Monday night car cruises to downtown Lockport, keeping them a place that is “family, joy and free.”
Pat Schrader, club president, said this year will be no different, providing eighteen weeks of car cruises in Ida Fritz Park.
The cruise season will kick off May Four, with a demonstrating of American Graffiti at the Palace Theatre. The showcase with begin at seven p.m. and tickets are $Five, with proceeds benefiting the Monday Night Cruise.
Schrader said the film is “a joy movie if you are an old car enthusiast.”
He said similar to the movie, before urban renewal hit Lockport, “everybody drove up and down from Ida Fritz Park to the hospital.”
He said if you had a car to showcase off you drove back and forward and if you didn’t, many sat on the steps of the YMCA, watching.
The following Monday on May 11, the kick-off cruise will take place. Each week cruises take place from six to nine p.m. There is no registration fee to display a classic or custom-built car, truck or motorcycle. Those wishing to display a car should arrive inbetween Five:30 and six p.m. each week.
Other cruise nights include:
May eighteen Military Night; June one Law Enforcement Night; June eight 50s Night; June fifteen Country Night; June twenty two Firefighters Night; June twenty nine Bikes and Blues; July six Children’s Night; July thirteen Corvette Night; July 20, Mustang Night; July twenty seven to be announced; Aug. Three British and Foreign Car Night; Aug. Ten Van Night;
Aug. Seventeen Community Night; Aug. Twenty five Terry Buchwald; Aug. Thirty one to be announced — rain date for Terry Buchwald; Sept. Fourteen last cruise of the season.
Two super cruises — beginning at four p.m. — will be held on Memorial Day and Labor Day. The Memorial Day cruise will take place May twenty five and feature a salute to antique vehicles. The Labor Day cruise will take place Sept. 7.
Schrader said via the cruises, each week will suggest something different for people to love. There will also be entertainment, including the Hot Country Liners Dance Team on Country Night. The CRS Band is scheduled to perform, and on 50s Night, Elvis Wade will be a fresh addition.
At each cruise there will also be hot dogs, hamburgers, ice juices and more available for purchase. Schrader said puny business vendors are still wished for the cruise nights. He said if they wish to serve food, they attempt not to dual up, so it would need to be a unique item. The city also gave permission to the cruise to have a beer vendor.
Schrader said anyone wishing to be a vendor must have the decent licenses and permits.
Contact reporter Rikki Cason at 439-9222, ext. 6252.
