Cruising
 

Cruising

Is it legal in your area?

If it is: Do you actually like to participate in it or do you just like to watch it?

Where are some popular spots?

Note:Cruising can mean different things in different areas.

:D

Hmm..when -I- think of cruising I'm thinking of basically driving slow/revving your engine/etc really slowly around a certain area to show off.

It's goes both ways on the legality of it. The cops around here are kinda cool about it, as long as you're not waking anyone up they won't really say anything to you.

Places, places, hmm....probably around the Riverfront Park, it has a drag strip right next to it, so it's pretty popular around here. However, it's populated with really nice homes and old people, so the cops do get called in quite a lot.

edited to add: I like to be the person -inside- the car, not just watching everyone else's. My bf has a sweet Eclipse that's at the moment getting ground effects and a custom pait job, so I plan on taking it down there.

Re: Cruising
 

True. Cause I know cruising to mean going to bars or other pickup spots with the intent to hook up.

Cruising was a big thing when I was in high school. I grew up in a small town where there was really nothing to do after 10:00. I think they put a ban on cruising shortly after I graduated.

I don't think it happens much where I am now, but I live in a large city where there's almost always something going on. At any rate, it's not really something would be into anymore.

Oh God! My friends and I used to cruise "the strip" all the time! Have you noticed that downtown Wyandotte has turned into a scene from "the Fast and the Furious?" lol I think it's hilarious too see all those 16 year old guys with their souped-up Ford Focuses trying to act like badasses. Don't they realize that it's not impressive, just really funny?

There's a strip of beach in a neighboring town that everyone "cruises." There's a hurricane dike to prevent the city from flooding during a hurricane and people park on the sidewalk and sit on the dike. Or they park in a parking lot down the way and walk from one end to the other along this low cement wall. The dike is at one end, and there's an old Fort at the other, complete with old cannons and stuff.
Then there's the "Ave" which I assume is kind of like "the strip" in other places...except that it's really raunchy- complete with cheap commercial sex and all. Greasy portuguese bars complete with greasy portuguese men everywhere. Yuck.

at school you can usually see the townies cruising down court street on friday and saturday nights while the collge kids are at parties or at the bars. i had never seen anyone cruise until i got to OU.

Welcome to southeastern Ohio!:p

There's nothing else to do except to watch rednecks and white trash.

Ps: have you seen the pink "pimped-out" neon yet?

I used to cruise all the time in high school! Makes me smile thinking about it! We have one pretty long strip in town, and it is still pretty popular! I avoid the area on the weekends after dark!

I see a fair number of Ohio posters on this thread. We used to cruise a lot in Columbus in the 60's. Unhappily, most of the drive-ins (the restaurant variety, not the movie theatres) have been closed.

Unless you had a fake ID, and went to the Ohio State bars, it was a huge part of the teenage social scene.

There is a Sonic drive in reasonably close to us now, and a lot of old car enthusiasts "cruise" it on the weekends. Kinda fun to watch.

It doesn't just happen in southern Ohio. I went to school in northeast Ohio, and one of my sisters - who grew up fairly close to our campus- met her now husband cruising when she was in high school.
I've never been, myself, but I know my brothers went cruising all the time in the 80's. It's possible that one or two of them met their (now ex) wives that way...

LOL cruising in miami can mean many things


if you are under 21, and you are "cruising" in coconut grove...(a place that is mainly bars and lil shops and 21 type places) then your cruising is called "looser laps!" LOL

example speech: (sitting at wet willies watching the cars go by)
"Hey look at all those little kids doing looser laps"

LOL they just drive around and around the bars looking "cool"

HILLARIOUS!!

the other place in miami where people "cruise" is in South Beach
usually Ocean Drive or Washington
OceanDrive is where all the art deco hotels are versaci's house etc. ...for the most part cruising on OceanDrive is allowed, but at certain times (usually Friday Saturday nights) there is a lil light on a yield sign looking thing that blinks with a yellow light when it is NOT allowed

people cruise on washington more to see what good clubs are around,

young lil kids do looser laps here too

:D

Miami is more fun when you are 21

CTFU! That is some funny shhhh! :D

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