RSS 2.0 FeedMarch 24, 2011, Bellmore Life
Car Show cruises in
Entertainment will be a part of the summer months.
The Friday Night Car show, a mainstay of Bellmore entertainment for years, will open up on Friday, April 1, for the first time under management of the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores.
“We’re excited that a lot of people will be coming once again,” said Kevin McKinnon, member of the car committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and owner of Days Gone By candy store on Bedford Avenue. He reported that members from up to four car clubs will be coming to show off their mechanical handiwork, as they’ve done for years.
This year the show will boast a new entertainment stage provide by the Town of Hempstead, a partner in the show, with a band from Bellmore’s Rock Underground kicking off the entertainment season on Friday, May 6.
Jill Bromberg, a car committee member, said that the entertainment stage will host a variety of acts, all for free, during the summer months.
Cars wishing to exhibit at the show will be charged $3. Mr. McKinnon told Bellmore Life that funds collected from the cars will go to fund the portable toilets that will dot the show, another new feature of the reconstituted car show under the chamber’s management.
Hours of operation will be from 6-10 p.m., and Mr. McKinnon said that because the members of the chamber will be patrolling the car show – as they do during the annual street festival – there will be minimal police presence. “This is a permitted show,” he said.
Families and car show patrons who attend the show will get in free, as they have in the past. There will be no food concessions at the show, but plenty of food and drink will be available to all from the eatery establishments, such as up Bedford Avenue.
