Residents@JV

32nd Annual Frog Follies

We all like to go to car shows and the ‘Grandaddy’ of them all was being held Saturday morning, August 26, 2006, at the Vanderburgh County 4-H Center. E’ville Iron Street Rods LTD was sponsoring the 2006’s 32nd Annual FROG FOLLIES. It is one of the largest car shows in the country drawing over 4,000 pre 1949 autos. The E’ville Iron Street Rod Club has been putting on a car show since 1975 and at their first event; there were only 44 registered street rods and it featured a bull frog jumping contest and since...has become known as The FROG FOLLIES. It continues to grow into a world-wide event that registers over 600 commercial street rod vendors with an automotive swap meet. Jacob’s Village residents Michael, Scott and Home-Coordinator Joe left to meet Caroline Nellis, our designated newsletter photographer, at the 5/3 Bank branch located at the intersection of HWY 41 and Booneville-New Harmony Rd. All roads were stacked up with bumper-to-bumper street rods and on-lookers trying to find their way into the FROG FOLLIES. The Indiana State Police was directing traffic the best they could while putting up with a slow moving 100-car train that was rolling along side Hwy. 41 and blocking all the entrances. We made it inside the grounds and was directed to park in a large grassy area East of the horse arena. Many people and many cars were crowding the access lanes trying to find where to go. Walking by all the vendors and dealers that were set up, looking at the goods of the street rod paraphernalia, we noticed a car raffle and signed up for the 20th Century Chevy, Inc. Car Give-A-Way. They were giving away a 1976 Corvette and the winner would be announced at their forth-coming 29th Annual Carfest in Washington, IN, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006. We met Charles Huck, Jacob’s Village board member, at the information booth and signed in to help a vendor out. Volunteers are in high demand for this event and a Frog Follie representative did find a place for Michael and Joe to work. An ice and drink stand half way up the hill towards the convention center was in need of volunteers because on this hot day, drinks and ice was a hot commodity. Caroline took some photos of Michael filling cups with ice and Joe man-handling bags of ice out of a cooler and passing them out. Later on, Michael and Scott looked over the displayed commodities and purchased a commemorative t-shirt for this years event. Caroline snapped many photos of us around the autos and one of the ‘Frog’ himself with Scott in front of one all decorated up with many frogs on it. That one was very appropriate for the day and it was hard to pass up. We had to pick Mike up from work at G. D. Ritzy’s at 2:00pm so we left a little early knowing it would take us longer to leave the place than it took us to enter. On this hot day we were glad to be back inside the van with the A/C. and we arrived at G.D. Ritzy’s with time to spare and have an Ice Cream treat. A good time was had by all.

posted by J V Resident Blog @ 9:13 AM