Keep in mind I live 2216.87 miles west of The Totem Pole [[22538 Woodward Ave.), and have for almost 40 years. But when I grew up in Ferndale, cruzing Woodward Avenue was THE THING, and although I did it in my daddy's Fury III, it didn't prevent us from hitting the drive-ins like the Big Boy, Teds, the Totem Pole and others in a vain attempt to 1) look cool and 2) pick up chicks. This was back when the car was king, and the king of the radio was WKNR-Keener 13.
In 1995, as a fundraiser for something I don't remember, a Ferndale plumber organized a cruise through Ferndale, Plesant Ridge, Royal Oak and Berkley, expecting to draw maybe 25.000. It drew a quarter of a million folks, many with cars of the 60's era. In 2002, the owners of the then WXDX, which was what WKNR had become, allowed Mike Austerman [[?), he of
www.keener13.com to get a bunch of the old jocks back together, along with period music from '63 to '71 or 2, jingles, commercials and the like, and for a couple of days in August of 2002 on Dream Cruise weekend, 1310 AM sounded like 1967 all over again.
It got a lot of buzz around here. The folks putting the whole thing together made a call for requests on SDF and it went crazy for a few days, and when the broadcast hit the air, it went crazy all over again. I wish someone would do it again.
BTW, the Woodward Dream Cruise is coming up in a couple of weeks. I won't be there, but if someone shows up in a Green over Green 4 door 1968 Plymouth Fury III, my spirit will be along for the ride. Info here....
http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/
So shine up your GTX [[I'm a Chrysler guy) and go. Sure with I could....
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