Closing Main Street

Usually when a community hosts a car show they put all of the cars and vendors in a local park or in the lot of a large shopping center. Not the Rides On Monmouth. You see, Monmouth is the main street through downtown Newport. This is where many of the town's businesses are located, where there are a bunch of funky little shops and old school restaurants. Shoot, this is event he street that at one time housed the famous Cinema X theater that became a Supreme Court test case when it was showing the film Deep Throat.

There was nothing "obscene" about this year's annual Rides On Monmouth car show except perhaps the number of great cars that showed up on this bright summer's day.