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17 years of free cars & food?

17th Annual Gate City Real Estate’s Client Appreciation car show and food feed at O.K. Ward Park in Pocatello, Idaho.

I wasn’t expecting so many cars at a free event, but reportedly it is the biggest such event in Bannock County.  Gate City Real Estate also calls this event their ‘company picnic’, yet everybody is invited!

Here is a few of the many cars (pardon my Summer Time Allergies):

Some more cars:

Another sampling:

Free food line.

Even after two hours of checking out the cars, they still had plenty of BBQ:

The sky got smoky from all the wildfires, but it actually made for a cool sunset.

The show is over, part-1:

Show’s over, part-2:

Part-3:

Finally, part-4:

Can’t wait for the 18th Client Appreciation car show and food feed!

This is the front.

The builder claims it is a Chevy Truck!

Is it actually a 4×4 Chevy Impala?

Bad Gas at the free car show and B-B-Q feed fest?

June 2024: 13th Annual SAC Oldies Rod & Custom show & fundraiser!

13th SAC Show: For sale, one old bird!

1962 Studebaker Hawk GT.

Walk around video:

On 08JUN2024, the Senior Activity Center (SAC) held its yearly OLDIES ROD & CUSTOM SHOW & FUNDRAISER in the Old Town area (Historic Downtown) of Pocatello, Idaho.

My youtube ‘short’: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4MMu89KoS2M

Join Idaho Classics and Modern Muscle (ICaMM), it is free (don’t make me send Crazy Carl after you)!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/idahoclassicsandmodernmuscle

13th SAC Show: 1968 BEEP-BEEP!

13th SAC Show: 1928 Studebaker Potato-Maker?

Actually, it is the image of a potato which was first used on an Idaho license plate in 1928

 It turns out that Idaho was the first U.S. state to issue license plates with cute slogans. (Don’t tell anybody, but there are a lot of Idahoans who dislike potatoes, especially on their license plates!)

Some sources say the first potatoes were grown by a Christian missionary in the Lapwai area of what would become North Idaho, as early as 1830!  However, those were not the famous Idaho potatoes everybody now expects to come out of The Gem State. 

The famous Idaho potato is actually the Russet-Burbank, developed by a guy named Luther Burbank starting in 1872.  In 1914, the University of Idaho began experiments with growing Russet-Burbanks. Those type of potatoes grew well in Idaho’s pumice based dirt, but soon other states began growing them and selling them as ‘Idaho Potatoes’!  Legal actions took care of that scam. 

Walkaround video:

According to the Idaho Historical Society, the big new crops for 1928 were mint and green peas

My youtube ‘short’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KdoDjgj1Be4

On 08JUN2024, the Senior Activity Center (SAC) held its yearly OLDIES ROD & CUSTOM SHOW & FUNDRAISER in the Old Town area (Historic Downtown) of Pocatello, Idaho.

13th SAC Show: 1932 FORD ROADSTER WITH CHEVY 383!

Join Idaho Classics and Modern Muscle (ICaMM), it is free (don’t make me send Crazy Carl after you)!:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/idahoclassicsandmodernmuscle

Street Creeper: Dude! Check out that guy’s Stude!

It started out life as a 1950 Studebaker.

First ever Pine Ridge Mall Spring Auto-Fest in Chubbuck, Idaho, 20th-21st April 2024, and they are already planning a 1st ever Summer Auto-Fest!

My walk-around video:

My youtube ‘short’: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btwd6Wim3vQ

Dude, the Stude has left the building:

Nothin’s for free: TIME TO GET DOWN AND BOOGIE!