Flashback Weekend

This weekend was another trip down memory lane. Old cars, old music and old friends made it a great weekend.

I love old cars, and Pampa has a classic car rally and car cruise each year in June. Owners come from as far as New Mexico and Kansas to show off their antique cars. You just have to remember that the rule for cars is the same as it is for women: "You can look all you want, but don't touch!"

There was a lot to look at. My favorite at this year's show: a '40s model Lincoln Continental limousine. I didn't know there were Lincolns back then. I also liked the 60s' Chevy pickups.

After displaying their cars during the day, drivers then paraded them up and down Pampa's main street in the evening. People lined the sidewalks to sit back and watch the car cruise. It was a lot of fun, remembering the days when cars used to cruise the drag in downtown every weekend. Anyone remember the drag and Caldwell's Drive-in?

I got another taste of nostalgia at Kenny Rogers' 50 years of hits concert in Amarillo. He sang a lot of the great old songs that were hits for him during the past 50 years. He's had a lot of them! "The Gambler," "Lucille" and "Coward of the County" are a few of the songs he did last night.

He's quite a showman, too. At one point in the concert, he threw out $10 bills to a guy in the audience for each Kenny Rogers' hit song the guy could name. The guy got more than $100, a pretty good deal for him.

Billy Dean opened the show. He was a popular singer in the '80s, and I'd always wondered what happened to him. I pulled out my old cassette tape of him and am listening to it as I write this. He's still a good performer as last night's concert proved.

Good weekend, good times and good memories... it doesn't get much better than that!