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FROSTBURG – Members of Cruisin’ Main Street Frostburg appeared before the Frostburg City Council Thursday night to present plans and a sponsors’ booklet for the 9th annual parade of classic cars and timeless fun, to be held Thursday, Sept. 2 in the Mountain City.

“Please mark your calendar,” said Maureen Brewer, Frostburg’s Main Street Manager.

In its ninth year, Cruisin’ Main Street has grown from a “wacky idea,” as organizers described it, to a much anticipated event that draws classic-car enthusiasts and just plain folk from throughout the region. Last year’s event, held on a beautiful late-summerevening, drew more than 800 cars.

An celebration like Cruisin’ Main Street just doesn’t happen, though, and the organizational brains and brawn behind the event is the Cruisin’ committee, 2010, which is comprised of Michael Shockey, chairman, Barb Armstrong, Gary Kimmell, Mark Monnett, Wade and Margie Phillips, John and Debbie Rafferty, Rudy and Sandy Shockey, Mike and Shirley Wade, and Brewer.

“The committee is strong,” Brewer said. “Each year we want to grow larger and expand.”

Bowing to that philosophy, this year’s event will feature more than just “classy chassis” cars, many of which are in town for the Labor Day cruise in at the Allegany County Fairgrounds. It will also feature three bands – The Chinese Bandits, Crick Rats and Cumberland’s We’ve Got Talent, Rickey Howsare. One of the bands will even literally be mobile, traveling up and down Main Street with all the cars.

As he notes in the welcome message for the glossy program book produced for the cruise in, Mike Shockey reports that Cruisin Main Street “has grown to become our community’s premier event.”

Central to the successful organizing effort is the collaborative efforts of the Classy Chassis Car Club, which works in direct partnership with the committee.

“The Classy Chassis Car Club and FrostburgFirst are continually working to make the event bigger, better and more fun than ever before,” Shockey said.

To commemorate the big event, the Frostburg City Council Thursday night declared Sept. 2 to be “Back to the ‘50s Day.”

“So enjoy the evening,” Shockey says in his introduction. “Stroll past the cars on Main Street, see them in action as they cruise the “Burg, tap your toes to the great music all evening, and enjoy a laugh with someone you haven’t seen for a while…”

In his presentation to the Council, Shockey hinted at some of the events already being planned for the big 10th anniversary Cruisin’ Main Street. “We want fireworks next year,” he said.