Flashback Friday

This is Oaks day here in Louisville, aka Derby Eve.  This day has become a holiday for schools and a lot of companies and businesses here in the city.  It's a company holiday for us at ZCO, and when I was in junior high and high school, Derby Eve meant a day off for us, too.  Back then, the public schools were still in session on Derby Eve, and businesses and companies were open.  But my school was just a block away from Churchill Downs, so we didn't have school on Derby Eve so the school/church could make some extra cash parking cars. Back then, some thought it was horrible that the school/church made money parking cars for Oaks and Derby days; today, every church within 3/4 of a mile from the track parks cars to make extra money. A buck is a buck.

I still think it's cool that my school was the frontrunner for closing on Derby Eve.