American Legion Car Shows

 I have been asked to Post something on our American Legion Post 789 Activities,  SO OK !!  Every Wednesday Night our American Legion has a Classic Car Show "Weather Permitting"  from 5 to 8PM.  We have had one for years now !

Our first car show we had we only had 11 local people, mostly Legion Members show up for the Show and over the years it has grown !

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Looking at one end of the Parking Lot of the Car Show !

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The Other end of the Site we use !

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We had Vehicles from Boonville, NY to Star Lake, NY!

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Above is Commander Dr. Janice Gravely, PhD our first female Post Commander in 101 years of being an active Post with 1st Vice Commander Dick Simmons who started these Car Shows and Went around and collected door prizes !

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There is a 50 -50 Raffle, and every Hour prizes are given away,  we now have a large field of Companies who send up products to give away, Companies from California, Texas, and our Local Area and the Prizes are very nice !

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Each Vehicle  that enters the Show is Given a Ticket with their Number on it for Prizes!

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Long Time Legion Member Tim checks every Car that enters and Wednesday Night the 19th we had ***(((103))) Classic Cars, Trucks, Wreckers, and a Military Jeep show up !

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We wander thru the Vehicles selling raffle tickets from 5PM till 7:45 and there is lots of Prizes given away !

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These 2 Ladies with our Commander wander the Crowd visiting and selling Tickets for drawings !

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We have a "Food Truck" for Hot Dogs and Burgers and drinks on site and we are near a Dunkin Donuts and 2 large food stores, ALDIS and P an C !

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Someone we don't know who "Flew" over the Car Show with a Para Sail and a Motor on his back and circled the area twice causing a lot of "WOWS" !

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Dick and his helpers sell Tickets, call out winning ticket numbers and give away these Prizes to some of the 103 Vehicle owners or Visitors who wander thru looking at Cars !

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This was my favorite of the evening, a nice little 2 door, 1955 ford, robin eggs blue,  had one just like after high school but mine was red and white,  oh the Memories !

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 The end of the Night, 7:45PM we drew the 50-50 winner,  $240.00 Dollars raised for the 50-50 drawing and over all a quick cound of the Money on other Item Raffles and gifts we raised almost $500 dollars for our American Legion Scholarship Program.  Next Car Show weather Permitting will be next Wednesday !

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