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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Cruisin....

I grew up in a town where cruising was the social network of the day. Every weekend that is where you hooked up with your friends and met a whole lot of new ones. There were all these smaller farm towns that were all around this main city. Those teens would drive to Enid to cruise VanBuren, we called it VB. There were different stops you would risk hanging out at until the cops would shoo you along for loitering. If you had a cool car with a revved up motor you would have to show it off and peel out. I am sure there was the occasional fight or under age drinking, but for the most part it was good clean fun. Where you could blare your favorite song as you drove down the street..and honked at ones you knew or wanted to know as they passed ...you could have watergun fights...grab a cherry vanilla coke at Sonic...or just park behind McDonald's and hang out. Those were the days!
I started a group page the other day on Facebook called, "VanBuren Cruisers of Enid" and in just four days there were already 200 people signed up as members or cruisers..lol. That tells me that Facebook is where a lot of those cruisers have gone. We all want the social interaction with each other. It is what encourages and inspires us. This group of people that we shared our youth with has this special connection or bond. By reaching out and sharing our memories of those times helps us to enjoy them all over again. Thank you Facebook for making a virtual time machine for us to reach back into our glory days and relive them.
It is sad to think that our children do not have that same luxury of "safe" carefree independence that we had growing up. They need more outlets like that that are not tainted by the fear of gangs and abductors. I guess our children will have to cruise the virtual drag called Facebook..in safe quarters to have that social network. Somehow it doesn't have the same appeal that we had behind the wheel. If we get to have a reunion and catch up with our old friends on VanBuren you might want to bring your kids along just so they have a little taste of how it was when we were young.

4 comments:

  1. Our personal hang out was the parking lot besides Long John Silver's. It was right on the drag and we would flag down the other "cool" kids we wanted to hang out with. Or laugh at the ones we didn't deem appropriate for our click. My car was once abducted from that parking lot by my best friend's future husband and I still claim to have absolutely no knowledge of what happened to the missing parking curb from there. And I will neither confirm nor deny that I ever made out with anyone in a car in that parking lot! lol!

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  2. You Darla are definately younger than I,I remember the days before micky ds came to enid-It was a much better town then,We had 1 hamburger chain then-remember Hardees?-the food was much better then,a&w,vans,brites on grand,judons on grand, lenox also-think we had 8 cops-knew 'em all by first name,people had jobs,at least 50k people-99% spoke english,Vance AFB was the most secure place to work-anyway 'nuff ranting

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  3. Wow, this brings back old memopries. My car wasn't really "hot" (couldn't peel out for example) but it *was* a '57 Chevy and we'd drive that thing 300 miles a night round trip between Sonic and A&W Drive-Ins (and I could fill the tank for 5 bucks). The only other place to get a burger back then was Vans (this is way before Hardees, MacD's, etc. etc.)

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  4. i still cruise vb i will allways cruise vb its some much fun to see what people do to there cars so much fun i drive a 2004 hyundai tiburon blue

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