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Welcome to An American Footprint - Business Circular Our Footprint logo consists of my son’s footprint at birth and my father’s flag at death.

I buy American Made, read the labels, ask the questions and do my homework on each and every product I pur-chase - just ask anyone who knows me. I also love building a paper wrapped around American Muscle - it’s an American tradition and a good number of car products are all made right here.Look closely at who is here in print; each business brief-ly tells their own hometown story and every product is worthy of examanation! Visit their websites and enrich yourself with what they offer, its worth the time.

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Beach Barons2nd Annual Swap Meet

September 6 - 7, 2014

Beach Barons Car ClubPO Box 237

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Cleaning out the shop? Got car parts or car related items you would like to sell? Come to one of the largest car shows in the area and sell them!The Beach Barons Car Club will once again hold a Swap Meet with the “Rod Run to the End of the World.” For $25 you can display your “Treasures” to thousands of prospective buyers. Reserve your spot now!Just �ll out the form, write a check to Beach Barons and mail to us at:

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BEach BaRons 31st annual Rod Run to thE End of thE WoRld

sEptEmBER 6 & 7, 2014

During the 1950’s the Beach Barons Car Club was formed by a bunch of local fellows involved in flat head Fords, small block Chevys and a few Oldsmo-bile powered hot rods. The club flourished in its first years as a group of enthusiastic young men and women getting together with one common inter-est: Their automobiles. Guys with names like Duey Ames, Bill Morse, Al Degenhart, Monte Baker, and Jim Howerton were actively participating in the everyday chore of keeping these rides alive.The hangout was Ferguson’s Richfield gas station in Long Beach near the intersection of 8th Street and Pacific Highway. The meetings were held in the old Peninsula Court House. Several U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard members were instrumental in forming the original club and when the government pulled the Air Force out of the area and the envi-

ronmentalists started pulling horsepower from the Detroit engines, the Beach Baron Car Club slid into the annals of history.In 1983 the Ocean Park Chamber of Commerce was asking members of the community for ideas that would encourage visitors. Max Morehouse and Bob Langendofer, two local Lone Wolf car buffs came up with the idea of a car show. The Rod Run to the End of the World was born. A total of 68 cus-tom cars showed up for that first show on Labor Day weekend and everyone felt it was a success. The following year, 120 cars were in attendance and Bob and Max were helped by several of the ex-Beach Barons members. Someone suggested reforming the old car club using the Beach Baron name. By this time about 20 car buffs had come out of hiding and the Beach Barons Car Club was formed and incorporated as a non-profit group for the betterment of the whole community.

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theaters), until finally, my Dad was able to buy his first brand new car. I remember very well that it was right around his birthday in 1975, August. That car would be the one to have the most profound influence on me for its time served (150,000 miles in 9 years) and the age that I was. It was a 1975 Plymouth Valiant in light green with a white vinyl top, and dark green vinyl bench seats. All five of us could easily travel (Dad, Mom, Brother and Grandma as well as myself) within in its boxy structure. The Valiant took us to Mexico and back, and over most of the back roads in Oregon. It wasn’t exactly a paradigm of vehicular engineering, there were many issues with it, but that allowed my father the opportunity to teach us kids the ins and outs of repair and maintenance. My 16th birthday was spent assisting my father in grind-ing valves in order to pass the DMV inspection and renew its plates. I learned to change a tire, check oil, and a myriad of other fairly routine maintenance tasks, along with a whole slew of pretty colorful words as we sweated it out. I think it’s fair to say that my Dad and I bonded a little bit in and around that old green Plymouth. I can still almost see his briefcase occupying the back seat for his daily commute, something that was relegated to the house for our family drives to the Columbia River Gorge, the Willamette Valley, or any combination of back roads. Dad would also relay stories of the vehicles that he had owned during his youth. His first, a 1941 Chevrolet Coupe which he purchased using money earned picking berries, and how his own father and he had worked together maintaining and repairing it. A 1973 Mercury Comet was added to the family when my father remarried. That was my step mom’s grocery getter until it was replaced by a 1980 Mercury Mon-arch; two cars couldn’t be more different if they tried. Interwoven within the human relationship, if you look to the past century, has become a tapestry of makes and models pertaining to the automobile.As they say it’s not about the destination, it’s the jour-ney, and so is the car not so much about what you’re driving as who you’re riding with. While it may be cooler to wax poetic about the 1968 Chevelle SS, I can get a little starry-eyed over that Valiant just as easily. I’m so glad my father loved driving. We traveled many miles and saw many wonderful sights, but along the way, we shared stories, recited poems, laughed, and yes we argued. How long can a family of five strong-willed people stay cooped up without having a disagreement here or there, anyway? Most of all we spent time together, built memories that endure and arrive within my thought process many times when I am on a familiar

stretch of road, or see a car like the ones we used to have. When I attend the Rod Run as a spectator - while ogling the beautiful cars and enjoying the sound of the horsepower display, I am also traveling down a memory lane courtesy of those cars, even the (now very cool) ones my Dad owned before I was born and spoke about both fondly and not so fondly. Sure, I might even see a 1975 Plymouth Valiant out there one day, and hope to peek in the window at the backseat where I once rode, privy to a view of the Western United States roadside glories, but also my family’s conversations and comfort-ing presence. Cars represent all of these things; the freedom, the ability to look cool by proxy, to get a job done, to get to a job...but most of all, the memories and the connection to our family and friends created within their reinforced structures. Enjoy the memories, and experience the moment as you build more.I now drive a 2010 Ford Flex, it’s been a terrific car, already rolling up on a century in the miles depart-ment. It carries my kids, friends, and myself safely and comfortably, and already has four years worth of great memories contained within its existence.

Too early to wax nostalgic on these, but one day....

© 2014-Liz [email protected]

Making new memories in the 2010 Ford!


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Saturday, September 6, 2014Registration Booth Open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Spectator Gate Open 8:00 a.m.Free Continental Breakfast for Participants 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.Vendors Open 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.T-Shirt Sales 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Music by DJ 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Auto Swap Meet 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Bobby Sox and the Juke Box 11:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.Rhonda Goldsmith 50-50 Dance Team 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.Brick It 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.Show & Shine 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Poker Run Registration 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.Door Prizes 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m..Cruise Line Up 4:00 p.m.

– Schedule of Events –Registration Booth open Friday, Sept. 5th – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Only participants can pick up packets on Friday at the Field

Sunday, September 7, 2014Registration Booth Open 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.Auto Swap Meet 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.Vendors Open 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.Spectator Gate Open 8:00 a.m.Poker Run 9:00 a.m. to NoonMusic by DJ 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Seafood Barbecue 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.50/50 Drawing 2:00 p.m.Trophy Presentations & Awards 2:00 p.m.

Canned food donations appreciated for local food bank.

Show Information & Registration Requests:

Beach Barons Car ClubP.O. Box 237 • 25515 Sandridge Rd.

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