America's 60s Headlines Cruisin' For A Cure

 Cruisin' for the Cure is the world's largest one day charity car show with over 3,400 vehicles and 200 vendors and exhibitors, all of which are gathered together to raise money for prostate cancer research, and through the City of Hope, to offer on-site blood tests to detect possible prostate cancer in men.
   
This idea originated in 1999 through the host club Hot Rods Unlimited because there was little publicity about the disease and most men affected were in the general age range of the guys who owned the hot rods.  The show has saved over 1000 men as a direct result of the on-site PSA blood testing and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for prostate cancer research.


     
Christy Passoth, Beauties of America, 60s, worked in Building 16 at the screening area.
(left to right) from the City of Hope with Christy Passoth: Amanda Arceo, Margie Caldera,
and Jessica MacDonald who administer blood tests to detect elevated PSA levels.

Helping Robert McCullogch fill out his paper work before his blood test.

She made sure the paperwork was correctly filled out as some of the men had forgotten their glasses or couldn't see the small boxes.  She said it felt gratifying to have help in this way and enjoyed talking to the men and hearing about their lives and current situations.
 
One out of six men in the United States, will contract prostate cancer in his lifetime, and 200,000 men this year alone will be diagnosed; 31,000 will die.  If we can do anything to lower
those numbers, it is imperative that we do iso.
   

This was the 12th annual event, held at the Orange County Fair and Events Center in Costa Mesa, California and the largest and most successful to date.