LOL glad i could be of assistance,

its even funnier to see it when it happens...

You always can tell a looser lap in the making...

when a guy is hanging out the window of his friends car with the radio blaring...and windows all open (in 90 degree heat!!)
yelling..."hey baby, yeah you honey you lookin' GOOOODDD...my friend wanna get with you...wanna go for a ride with us"

yup that is a total looser, you know he isn't old enough to pick up girls at the bar...so he is reduced to "cruising" or "looser laping"

LOL! There wasn't much in the way of cruising back in my days of high school in Miami, but there were plenty of illegal drag races on SR (State Route) 9 (the stretch that connects NW 27th Avenue to US 441 (SR 7)).

Hell, I remember when South Beach was nothing more than a 'geriatric ward' and one step away from being bulldozed into the ground by greedy developers. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed.

They have cracked down on drag racing alot..even when there is just a group of people that LOOK like they may be into drag racing the cops show up right away.

i dont know much about what is like on SR 9 and if they still do it, but for the most part it always seems like little kids just showing off thier cars..

oh well :) thats miami for you...lol

I never cruised in high school although some kids did.

I am going on a cruise on July 13th so I thought that this thread was about cruises.

We cruised occasionally - usually Highway 100 or Bluemound. Not like that will mean anything to those of you not from Milwaukee. Most of high school was spent in a car driving around - I put almost 50,000 miles on my car in 2 years, when work was 30 miles round trip and high school was a mile round trip. :D

In Virginia Beach, the tourists cruise the strip all throughout the day and night. But, it's illegal to pass the same point more than twice in a 3-hour period- otherwise known as "cruising". Traffic gets so congested that it takes 15 minutes to get 4 blocks to a parking garage or your hotel. Yes, they can find out if you've been cruising (cameras, cops all around), and believe me, nothing's more embarrassing for someone than being pulled over by a bike cop or mounted policeman on a busy saturday night with EVERYONE watching.

Now the funniest thing I've ever seen is a Friday night in Clifton Forge, Va on the way to Marietta, Ohio. The kids go from the BK up on the hill, around through the K-Mart parking lot and back in their big ass trucks. It just goes on and on, and I must admit... it looks pretty retarded. I'm glad we always had something to do where I came from that did not include cruising, and even more to do now in DC.

Boy, this brings back memories of high school. Back in the day, we cruised "The Circle" which was more like a lopsided square. You had to drive through a couple of residential streets to get back to the commercial area of it. When we got tired of driving, we parked in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot (called PWPL) and talked to everyone.
When I was in college, my dad bought a house right on the Circle (the house I live in now) and after he moved in, he called me in Austin and asked what the hell was up with all the traffic on his street!

Ah, for the old cry "We'll see ya around the Circle!!"

Where is this area? It must be in the north section of Miami?

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Hell, I remember when South Beach was nothing more than a 'geriatric ward' and one step away from being bulldozed into the ground by greedy developers. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed.

It was also where a lot of homeless or near-homeless were living at the time. Definitely not a safe area to go into during the 1980s, esp @ night...

Then again, there really WAS no reason to go to South Beach before the 1990s, unless you wanted to go to the deserted beach (which we did - we hated the crowds @ Crandon!)

Cruising is huge out here for the high school kids and it always has been.

You all know the movie "American Graffiti" by George Lucas right?
Well, that movie is based off my good ol town, Modesto. (His home town, too)

The main street to cruise is McHenry and it is packed on Friday and Saturday nights. (Even though its now illegal here, they are still out there) At one end of McHenry towards downtown there is an intersection (called five points) that has a statue of a guy and a girl sitting on a hood of a car. (Its hard to describe; think like 50's style) and it is dedicated to George Lucas and the movie.

I went cruising only a couple times in high school. We never actually went out looking for a hook up but we used to play games with everyone else out there. We would get two cars packed full of girls and race to see who could get the most "real" numbers in 10 mins. Then the losers had to go flash someone on McHenry or something stupid like that. (man, memories :) ) :p