People check out the old cars along Chicago Street during the first of of three cruise nights in downtown Joliet, IL on Thursday June 21, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media .
Larry Bailey checks out the old cars along Chicago Street during the first of of three cruise nights in downtown Joliet, IL on Thursday June 21, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media .
People check out the old cars, like this VW, along Chicago Street during the first of of three cruise nights in downtown Joliet, IL on Thursday June 21, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media .
People check out the old cars along Chicago Street during the first of of three cruise nights in downtown Joliet, IL on Thursday June 21, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media .
New Orleans North, a new festival created by the Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce & Industry, drew 3,000 people to downtown Joliet. | submitted photo
More than 3,000 people visited the Joliet Public Library for its Star Wars Day on June 2. | submitted photo
JOLIET — On one end of Chicago Street, men with classic cars remembered their teenage years in Joliet in the 1950s when they cruised from Silver Fross on the East Side to Dog ‘n Suds on the West Side. A block up the street, hundreds …