Duke's Drive In Final Cruise
What a joke....don’t get me wrong, awesome cars and turn out...but why?!? Why...history...culture...hot rods and
Milkshakes....why sell? New location, not the same....don’t get it..guess it’s all about the $$$$$....so sad :(
I'm not sure as to the why... You can look them up on Facebook as they do have a facebook page, but I don't do facebook so I can't tell you...
It's a shame that they have to move as this location has a bigger parking lot than the place that I hear they are considering...
Tonight is not the norm. it hasn't been the same as it used to be back in the day...
There was a bad accident back in the mid 80's at the street races and the cops cracked down on the racing and the cruising faded after that...
They haven't been able to pull the crowd like they used to... Today's crowd was about half of what they used to do... And they used to be that way on Friday and Saturday... If it didn't rain, Duke's was packed, you had to park 3 blocks away... The parking lot was wall to wall cars and people...
The culture back then was to fix your car during the week and get it ready to cruise Dukes for Friday and Saturday... There were 3 - 4 spots that they used to street race back then... They would set up the races at Dukes, and after they closed at 10 PM they would go out to the designated place and race... The real fast cars would run for 2 k per race and would show up on trailers with open exhaust and slicks... Unload the cars, warm them up, race, then load them back up on the trailer and get out of there before the cops showed up... Those were the true 9 - 10 second cars...
Some of the old designated racing places are more build up now and not possible to do that anymore... Plus they opened up the race tracks nearby and now you have a quarter mile track nearby where the closest ones back then were in Indiana or Union Grove, WI.... Now you can just go to the local track and race without worrying about getting a ticket...
As they say, those were the good old days....
