Hundreds Brave the Heat for the 5th Annual Bumpers, Bikes and Bands Festival
Hundreds of car and motorcycle enthusiasts poured into Plymouth's historic Old Village on Sunday for the Bumpers, Bikes and Bands festival, Plymouth’s annual showcase of classic cars and custom motorcycles.
“It’s really nice,” said Plymouth resident Melody Johnson. “It’s definitely Plymouth. It brings out some of the things in the Old Village that made it the little town it was when I was growing up.”
Car enthusiasts and admirers alike jammed the streets, peeking under the hoods of some of the finest Michigan-made muscle cars in the country. They swapped stories of the trade and swooned to the sounds of live music provided by local cover band Steve King and the Dittilies.
From noon to 5 p.m., people strolled the block, ducking into the shops, nibbling on foods offered out on the sidewalks and looking in awe at the crisp paint jobs and polished chrome of vintage cars that looked as though they had just rolled off the assembly line.
“Between the live music, the cars and the people, it’s a great event,” said Roger Heikkinen, a Northville resident who had his 1967 Chevy Camaro SS on display. “There’s also a lot of commonality among those who come to these shows.”
Organizers said they expected between 75 and 100 cars, as well as up to 50 motorcycles to be registered for the event, though most car owners seemed to agree that the trunout wasn't quite what it was in previous years.
"The number of cars is down this year," said Greg Carrier, an Ann Arbor resident who brought out his 1972 Oldsmobile 442. He cited Sunday's near 90-degree heat as the main deterrent. "It's a really great show, though. It's nice to be able to sit back out here in the grass and relax."
Despite lighter-than-usual participation, those on hand weren't worried about a decline in interest of show cars. Ypsilanti resident John Ottino — who was showing off his 1967 Plymouth GTX — said car enthusiasts spend most weekends of the summer at shows throughout the state, and sometimes can't make them all.
"You probably have more guys involved in car hobbies in Southeast Michigan than anywhere else in the country,' he said.
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Plymouth residents Matt and Melody Johnson admire a cherry red 1967 Plymouth GTX, owned by Ypsilanti resident John Ottino, at the 5th annual Bumpers, Bikes and Bands festival in the Old Village on Sunday. Hundreds of car and motorcycle
A restaurant in Plymouth's Old Village is apparently relocating to Plymouth Township in the midst of its current landlord's financial problems — and its own. Jeff Lindsey, who with brother Jay runs Amici Italian Bistro on North Mill, said Thursday the
University of Victoria Professor Kerry Mason with a 1912 Emily Carr painting of the old village site of Yan, in Haida Gwaii. The canvas, titled Yan, depicts not only the physical scene,
Quite curiously, it also calls to mind a depressingly but unrelated case that took place a long time ago in the village where I grew up, when the community water taps suddenly went dry after we had spent a lot of money to ensure they never would,
Norman Rockwell would have been hard-pressed to paint a more endearing vision of small-town life: the lawn of the pristine white Congregational Church crowded with families, Cub Scouts, and veterans, the entire tableau unfolding beneath a deep blue sky
In Greenwich Village, Paint Makes Old Sign History | Real Estate Flat
Cherished by some as a window into Greenwich Village’s rich musical past, the faded black letters marking the former home of the Fat Black Pussycat Theatre on Minetta Lane brought back a different set of memories for the building’s current owner.
“The Pussycat represented the worst of what the Village was,” said Bob Engelhardt, 84 years old, who has owned the building since the theater closed in 1963. “When you wanted to get drugs, get into fights and get with underage girls the Pussycat was where you went.”
Engelhardt opened Panchitos Mexican Restaurant in the building in 1972. In what he describes as a summer spruce-up, he recently concealed the 40-year-old, faded black letters above his restaurant with a coat of bright red paint.
But the paint job has prompted an outcry from preservationists who believe the sign was a culturally significant landmark. The seized on the lost sign to intensify their campaign to expand the Greenwich Village Historical District, which currently includes 3,060 buildings.
Other sites will continue to fall victim to demolitions and repainting if the city doesn’t act soon, warns Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation. “Once you paint over an iconic sign like that it’s gone forever,” he said.
The original sign was painted in the early 1960s, when the theater former known as the Commons was renamed. In about a two-year span as The Fat Black Pussycat, the theater played host to performers including Mama Cass Elliot, Tiny Tim and Shel Silverstein. Some biographies of Bob Dylan credit the theater as the location where he penned his 1962 hit “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
“It was a destination beloved by people in the neighborhood and known throughout the world, especially by Bob Dylan aficionados,” Berman says.
Berman’s group mourns the loss of the sign as just the latest on a long list of lost historical sites, including the Tunnel Garage at Thompson and Broome Streets and the Sullivan Street Playhouse.
In 2006, the Greenwich Village Historical District requested that the entire South Village, with about 800 buildings, be classified as a historically landmarked district. If granted the distinction, building owners would have to apply for permission before making alterations.
Last year, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved one third of that request, protecting the blocks between West 4th and Broad streets. But it has yet to rule on the remaining portions.
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