Petaluma's Annual May Salute To American Graffiti

Turn off your iPods and cell phones, step away from the computer and… stand by for justice!

Remember flat tops, dancin’ the bop, and Friday night sock hops? What about white bucks, blue suede shoes and bobby sox? Petticoats, peggin’ your jeans and root beer floats? Goin’ steady, American Bandstand and getting’ your kicks on route 66? Cruisin’ the main drag, and grabbing a coke and a 15 cent burger at Mel’s!

This is American Graffiti!!

Join us each year in May as Cruisin’ The Boulevard honors George Lucas’ timeless, coming-of-age film, American Graffiti, most of which was filmed here in Petaluma in the early summer of 1972. Grab your favorite squeeze, jump into your hot rod, candy-colored screamin’ machine or the family car for that matter, and cruise on back to the “happy days” of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

Petaluma’s Salute to American Graffiti is a community-wide celebration! It’s family fun for everyone…. from boys and girls to grandmas and grandpas! It’s also a time to help save a life as we raise funds to purchase Automated External Heart Defibrillators for our police department, community buildings and schools.

So, put on your poodle skirts, peggers, jeans, white sox and loafers, and come kick up your heels to our live rock ‘n roll bands! Grab a root beer float, see if you can still hula hoop and check out all of the cool American classic cars and trucks cruising the same streets where the movie was filmed 35 years ago!

As the Wolfman would say….. Be there or be square baby!