Your teen age cruisin' hang outs

okay one more so when I turn 16 the local dragstrip shut down what a bummer, it used to be an 8th mile drag strip that was quite a hub of excitement Street drags where on Friday night. I never got to run my Dart there but I did see Polaroid shots of my car racing. Eugene's Maine Cruise was called the Gut it was Willamette Street and it ran right through the center of town on the south end. On a busy Friday or Saturday night it would be bumper to bumper four lanes and could take you 45 minutes to go 5 blocks 1 way in the center lanes. No matter if you were cruising or just hanging out Gut was the place to be in about 1983 the city passed a ordinance that forbid passing anyone area more than two times in like a half hour a anti Cruz law specifically to shut down the gut. The cops would just line up and write ticket after ticket and search your car or whatever it took to harass you out of the area and it served its purpose it killed Willamette Street slash the gut. It was very hard on police and youth relationships to say the least