If you’re into cars at all this is a must see event. There really is something for everyone, custom rat rods, vintage Impalas, chopped Mercs, you name it (as long as it is older than 1964!).  The Back to the 50’s Car Show is put on by the Minnesota Street Rod Association and from what I read it brings in some 11,000 cars from all over the United States and Canada and over 100,000 spectators. This must be for Saturday! It was nice on Friday though because there wasn’t that many people there but still plenty of cars to look at.

The show offers all the typical fair foods, cheese curds, pork chop on a stick, burgers, etc. Most of the “big” stands weren’t open though, like Famous Dave’s and the French Fry stand but still plenty of food to choose from. The one thing that really surprised us and lets face it, down right disappointed us was the lack of a beer stand. Not sure what was going on there but a beer in hand while checking out the cars would have been nice. One thing to note, there were people walking around with beer but they must have brought it in.

There was a band playing but we didn’t stick around long enough to comment on them. They did have a decent crowd though.

All in all I wish we would have went on Saturday but we had to be out of town. I think the offering of cars there would have been better and hopefully they opened some beer stands!

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