Cruising on 6th Avenue - Do You Remember?

Do you remember how on a typical Friday night, after a basketball game, a few friends would pile in some kind of car and go cruising along 6th avenue, driving up and down with "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones and other songs blasting from the radio tuned to KJR?



People would honk at each other, someone would lean out the window and yell over to another car and there would be yelling back and forth. We'd get hungry after a while so someone would tell every classmate within earshot that we were all going to meet at Busch's Drive-In.

We would pull into a parking spot at Busch's just outside the building, read the menu from the menu board and not have to get out of the car because we would give our order through the intercom at each post, it could get pretty chaotic ordering sometimes. Then when our order was ready, a car hop, always a female, would bring out our tray of food and hook it to the side of the car. We would get big, meaty, delicious hamburgers, maybe some hot dogs, French fries, milkshakes or cokes. She would take our money and leave us to our fast food feast.

More music would play through the night: the Yardbirds, Petula Clark, the Kinks. It was the British Invasion!

There was more yelling between cars. We would talk and laugh. Sometimes someone would get out of one car and sit in another car.

When we were done we would push the button and the car hop would come take our tray covered with wrappers, paper cups, straws and food baskets.

What are your memories of '64-'65?