Posted by Goose on July 04, 2018 at 21:31:56 from (166.181.83.41):
My home town bills itself as "Nebraska's Fourth of July City".
With a population of some 7,000, the crowd of visitors and celebrants in town today was estimated at 40,000. That's in addition to the original 7,000. It dawned on me today that it's gotten so big it really isn't much fun anymore.
My wife and I went to a breakfast our church put on at the Civic Center this morning, walked through the antique tractors, and called it quits. She went back for the parade this afternoon, I didn't.
The tractors are the same over-restored units every year. Heaven forbid one even get a speck of dust on it, let alone do some honest work. I don't recall Allis Chalmers ever putting a $5,000 full clearcoat paint job on a WD.
Even the antique auto show has gotten so big it covers a full five blocks on both sides of the street. There was a time 20-30 years ago when I was in charge of the antique auto show, but back then it was small enough you could still have some fun with it, like the year I added an Ugly Truck contest. Now it's so big I don't see how they can even do a fair job of judging.
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