Thunder Roads Magazine of Oklahoma/Arkansas November 2014 | Page 34

EVENTS

OLD TIME SATURDAY NIGHT
CELEBRATES 5 YEARS
Photos by Reed Reavis and Brad Sewell
Article by Kat Boss

Pawnee’s annual motorcycle and hot rod cruise
in just keeps getting bigger! Held Saturday night,
August 2, hundreds of motorcycles, classic cars
and jeeps, made the cruise to Pawnee, Oklahoma
for the fifth annual Old Time Saturday Night
(OTSN).
OTSN is like the old days, when people came
to town on Saturday and stayed through the
evening to visit with friends and talk about whose
car was fastest.
One night a year, they drag them out of sheds
and barns and head to Pawnee, where the shady
old brick streets around the square provide the
perfect venue for a gearhead get together.
Although many of the vehicles weren’t
registered, probably because of the rebellious
nature of the owners, 191 did register. The drag
of Main was extremely well organized this year, so
that the entire town was full to overflowing with
vehicles of every type. OTSN doesn’t discriminate,
as some car shows do, as the motto of OTSN is “if
you think it’s cool, we will too!” according to Doc
Henderson, coordinator of the event.
The music was happening all over with the
Rural Route Hippies, a Pawnee band, and Red Dirt
Rangers, a well-known Glencoe/Lone Chimney
band echoing both ends of town. Both bands play
a wide range of country/folk rock/original music.
Red Dirt Rangers, one of the founding bands of
the Oklahoma red dirt music scene, have more of
a bluegrass flavor.
Lots of places to eat and the Pawnee Bill
Smoke Off was held during the day, and began
serving at 6:30 p.m.
Visit Old Time Saturday Night on Facebook,
give it a like and see awesome bikers and cars
from 2014.
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