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More than 330 cars
and counting
Downtown Greenville Car Show…
By Bob Robinson & Elaine Bailey
Photo Set Two
Photo Set Three
There were easily a thousand people wandering the streets of downtown
Greenville about 6 p.m. Saturday evening… and more had left for the
day, or were still planning to attend before top entries were awarded
at 8:30.
Cars ranged from the vintage and classic to the humorous and ludicrous.
They depicted decades of America’s “Love Affair” with its cars… cars
with “personalities” that existed before they became complex computers.
The cars on display spanned nearly three-quarters of a century.
Entertainment was not limited to checking out transportation of the
past; it included a Hula Hoop contest, a Chicken Dance, the Hokey Pokey
and a performance by Melody Line in Sweet One-O-One.
In this set of photos, you’ll see Hula Hoop contest winner Leanna
Meade, 17, from Greenville, who kept the “hoop” twirling for 62
minutes. Following was second place winner Darla Ullery of Greenville.
Look for the “time clock” in one of the remaining contestant images…
the contest started at 6 p.m.
DJ Ed Ferguson (Fast Eddie) from Bluffton, Ind., says hi; along with a
young lady, Breana, in her 1933 Radio Flyer. Visitors show off their
animals, including a young lady with her ferret. A visiting witch, a
little early this season... and on roller skates, also joined the crowd of spectators. All
photos are by Elaine Bailey.
Set two photos by Bob Robinson show some of the visitors, and unique
vehicles, ranging from a motorized Radio Flyer and a Mountain Limousine
to a vintage race car and the GTO “mean machine” called “The Judge.”
Look for the reaction of two visitors to the Mountain Limousine, with
its passenger saddle and potty seat. Flames were a popular focus of the
street cars of the fifties. Scallops and pinstripes, also a popular
focus, were strangely missing.
Set three, from Robinson and Bailey, display more cars and visitors
enjoying themselves. One photo shows a reminder of the drive-in carhop era. Get a close-up of the seating arrangement in the
Mountain Limousine; also note another popular fad of the fifties… cars
with shocks (or whatever they were called) that drop the bottom of the
car down to the street and have to be raised again before they can be
driven. I never really understood that, but it was done with a lot of
show cars.
For Photo Set Two, click here.
For Photo Set Three, click here.
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