The year is 1987. It’s a May evening in Longmont, and summer is just around the corner. Local high school graduations are expected to draw heavy traffic downtown.
For a brief time that spring evening, Main Street is wide open. That is, until the cars start filing onto the city’s central thoroughfare, motorists taking their sweet time driving up and down the lanes. After all, it’s a perfect night for cruising.
Longmont’s cruising culture appeared to be at its pinnacle in 1987. However, that was also the year a community forum was planned to address what was considered a major problem and to put the brakes on the beloved activity that had been embraced by Longmont residents for decades…