The annual Community Expo and Classic/Exotic Autos event will take place Sunday, June 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., sponsored by the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce. One highlight on Antioch Street will be booths promoting health, environment, education, financial, camps, home and garden, travel and technology A record 70 classic and exotic cars will be parked and waiting for perusal on Via de la Paz. This display will have two gold sponsors: Stokes Tire Pros and Just One Touch Video & Audio Center, both in Santa Monica. Silver sponsors are Palisades Pit Stop Detail (located off La Cruz, below CVS), Toyota Santa Monica and U.S. Bank on Swarthmore. Participating in the various booths are (so far): Aldersgate Retreat Center; Altour Travel; American Legion Post 283; Brentwood Art Center; Chabad of Pacific Palisades; eCenter Wellness; Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center; Gibson International; Adam Glazer of Liberty Mutual Insurance; Innate Chiropractic; Just One Touch Video & Audio Center; Katie O’Neill’s Fine Art; Kehillat Israel Congregation of Pacific Palisades; Luxe Home Care; Mountain Meadows Ranch; Oasis Palisades; Pacific Palisades Dentistry; Pain Management & Injury Relief; Palisades Charter High School; Palisades Dentistry Group; Maria Elena Tapia, DDS; Palisades Pit Stop Detail; Riverway Ranch Camp; Rotary Club of Pacific Palisades; Stokes Tire Pros; Suntricity, Inc.; Super Soccer Stars; Technology for You!; Toyota Santa Monica; UCLA Health System; U.S. Bank and Village School. Last year at the Classic/Exotic Autos display, the 1957 Dual Ghia, a four-seater convertible owned by singer Vic Damone, was a crowd-pleaser. It’s back! Only 117 Dual Ghias were designed and produced by Chrysler in the U.S. between 1956 and 1958. At the show, along with Fords, Chevys, Cadillacs, DeSotos, Plymouths, Studebakers and Porsches, check out the Ferraris, Bentleys, Austin Healeys and Jeeps. Additionally, look for the 2012 Lotus Evora and a 2012 SLS Mercedes Benz. Displaying more than one automobile are Michael Dituri, Vincent Foster, David Houston, Tim Marschall, Tim McNulty and Michael Slutzker. Rocking the streets will be Amazing Music under the direction of Patrick Hildebrand. For the children, as well as for the young at heart, multi-entertainer Michael Cladis and his One Man Band will play from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Other entertainment will be provided by Emily Kay’s Fancy Feet Dance Studio from 1l:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and by Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Keeping the streets clean all afternoon will be Chrysalis StreetWorks. Keeping the streets safe and secure will be ADT Security. The hard-working Community Expo committee includes chair Joyce Brunelle (Suntricity, Inc.), co-chair Zara Guivi (Oppenheimer & Company) and Roberta Donohue (Post Printing and the Palisadian-Post), chair of the Auto Committee. Other committee members include Chris Erickson, Aldersgate Retreat Center; Neil Godsey of Capstone-MassMutual Financial; Ed Lowe, Post Printing; Tim Marschall, TMC Construction; Ramis Sadrieh, Technology for You!; Jon Stokes of Stokes Tire Pros; Dr. Shannon Watson, Vital Force Chiropractic; and Greg Wood, Chamber of Commerce president and chief business officer at Palisades Charter High School, plus the office staff at the Chamber of Commerce. There is still time to participate. Call the Chamber at (310) 459-7963.
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