Over the Rainbow

Last Friday I got a call from a close friend asking

about the Cruise Night at the Frozen Rainbow in Port Ewen, NY.

He wasn't sure about when it's start date for the season was.

To make a long story short,

(and for those of you that know me know that's hard to do),

I said I'm not sure,

but I'm positive that the owner would NOT turn you away.

I spoke with someone there tonight and they told me there were more than 50 cars.

It's great that hot rod & car enthusiasts have a friend like

The Frozen Rainbow.

It's official start date is Friday, May 1st, 2009

Here's a link for more info

http://www.popyourhood.com/Friday08.html

Cruise Nights have begun!!

Rod Benders attended the 1st Cruise of the season

at Adam's Fairacre Farms in New Windsor last night.

We wish we had food like that at our cruise night!!

It's a great cruise night with something for people of all ages.

Plus shopping right there for home and garden needs saves a trip.

As usual Dan Wasvary ran a great opening night for the 2009 season.

We saw many friends and had a great time.

Also we saw cars with Jersey tags which means it's a cruise worth the trip.

If you haven't made it there, it's on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

The next one is May 12, 2009 starting at 5pm.

You can find further info at

http://www.popyourhood.com/Tuesday08.html

10 years in the blink of an eye

There has been much talk recently
about the 1st Cruise Night at Bear Mountain back in 2000
as the 10th Anniversary of the Rod Benders
hosting of the Bear Mountain Cruise Night is this year.
How many cars there were and where,
and who was there and so on.
It took some rummaging of my brain and
moving boxes but I was successful in finding the
negatives which shows how long ago 10 years really was.
Even for a tech savvy guy like myself,
I thought I stepped into the future when I brought
the 35mm negatives to the Rite Aid and saw the
bank of computers and printers and such at
the photo department area in the store.
We've come a long way since the little FotoMat shack.
Click here for a blast from the past