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Hello owners of exquisite, exotic, and interesting cars, the 2024 Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show is calling you! Our second annual show will be held on June 29th, 2024 in Campbell, CA.

🚗 Car Show Registration Site

Awards and Judging

It will be an all-day show from 9am to 3pm with closed streets. This is a juried show with professional judges that also judge at the Good Guys shows. Custom fabricated one-of-a-kind trophies will be awarded for:

• Best in Show
• Best Muscle Car
• Best Truck
• Best Import
• Best Hot Rod
• Best Street Machine
• Staff Pick

Types of Cars

We're looking for cars of all types. Our goal is for this show to have a little bit of everything. Please see our photos from the 2023 car show for examples of the kind of mix we're aiming for.

We're not doing motorcycles at this show. Cars and trucks only please.

Entering Your Car

Space is limited for our car show and all entries will be screened by our review panel. If you are accepted, the entry fee is $45 per vehicle and includes a t-shirt. There is no charge for submitting an entry.

You may enter more than one car, but in order to give more people a chance to be in the show, we may ask you to cut back to one car if we run low on space.

By entering, you are committing to exhibiting your car for the entire duration of the show (8:00am-4pm). Once you're placed, you will not be able to leave until the police department re-opens the street at 4pm.

To enter, please go to carshow.downtowncampbell.com.

Thank you all for your patience while we worked on getting our 2024 Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show Registration site online. We're now taking entries for our upcoming car show to take place in Downtown Campbell on Saturday, June 29th.

To enter your car, please visit: carshow.downtowncampbell.com.

All entries will be screened by our panel of professional judges. Once your entry has been approved to enter the show, we'll email you to collect your entry fee and complete your entry into the show.

We're going to be swamped with entries in the first two weeks so please allow us a little extra time to get through the flood of initial entries.

Last year we ran in an issue with the number of cars we were allowed to have in the show and we had to ask some people to volunteer to withdraw cars that we had already accepted into the show. If you were one of these people, please mention it in your submission to receive priority for entry.

Hopefully we won't need to repeat that painful exercise again this year. After a good showing in our first year, our police department is allowing us to have more cars in the show this year. We still won't have unlimited space, but we'll be able to accept a lot more cars than we did last year.

UPDATE: The Car Show Registration site is up.

Thanks for your patience everyone. We're getting ready to start taking registrations for our upcoming car show on Saturday, June 29th.

Registration for the 2nd Annual Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show will begin at 9am on Saturday, May 4th.

There is no charge for submitting your car. If your car is approved by our judges for entry into this year's show, there will be a $45 entry fee required to complete your entry.

This is a juried car show with professional judges. We will hand out custom trophies for the best car in seven categories:

• Best in Show
• Best Truck
• Best Hot Rod
• Best Muscle Car
• Best Import Car
• Best Street Machine
• Staff Pick

You may enter more than one car, but if we start running low on space, we may ask you to limit your submission to only one vehicle to allow the most number of people a chance to participate in our show. The good news for this year is that we've been approved to have at least 100 more cars than we were allowed in last year's show so we'll have more space to work with.

Entry details will be finalized and announced on DowntownCampbell.com prior to the start of the registration period. There will be an official announcement on the homepage with a link to our Car Show Registration site on Saturday, May 4th.

We're really looking forward to building on our first show last year. We'd love to feature as wide of an array of unique and interesting cars as possible.

Every year the Campbell Chamber of Commerce chooses someone to honor as the Citizen of the Year to recognize their outstanding contributions to the community of Campbell. The Downtown Campbell Business Association (DCBA) also chooses a person to recognize for their contributions toward making Downtown Campbell the place that it is. It's a rarity that the same person gets named for both awards in the same year, but we're pleased to say that Brooke Ramirez was chosen for both honors.

Later this year, Bombshell Boutique will have been in business for 18 years and nearly all of it in Downtown Campbell. We're paying tribute to our DCBA Person of the Year by publishing some photos of Brooke doing what she's been doing right from the day she got to Downtown Campbell.

The earliest photo is from 2009 at our annual Creepy Crawly Halloween. Can you believe that our Trick 'r Treat was once a tiny event? At the time, Downtown Campbell was also a small downtown that was teetering on being a dead downtown.

Fast forward 15 years and we're still a small downtown with some challenges that most popular downtowns don't have, but if the difference between that Halloween and our current ones are any indication, we also have some advantages. The greatest one is culture. One event at a time and one year at a time, a rotating cast of characters kept working together to create culture in Downtown Campbell and Brooke's been one of those characters the entire time.

Brooke will be the first to identify a long list of other characters who should also be mentioned in the same breath and that much is true. The culture of Downtown Campbell is a culture of many hands and we're all standing on someone else's shoulders, but very few people manage to show up so consistently for so long.

Since you can't really summarize someone showing up all time for nearly 2 decades, we'll keep it simple and say this: Brooke, thank for having a big heart and thank you for always being ready to give without having concern if it'll ever come back to you.

2024 Parade Canceled Due to Weather

Unfortunately, it's looking like there's a good chance of rain coming at us this weekend so we had to make the difficult decision to call off the Bunnies and Bonnets Parade on Saturday, March 30th. Preparing for our annual Easter parade is a huge amount of work for the organizers as well as the participants. Waiting until the last minute to make a decision risked creating a lot of disruptions for everyone involved. We felt it would be better to make the call now.

Downtown Campbell is meant for these kind of community celebrations and we're very disappointed we couldn't have the parade this year. It'll be back next year and we're also hoping that the Eggstravaganza Easter Egg hunt can also return with it.

The next opportunity for a family day in Downtown Campbell will be in three months. It'll be on June 29th and you'll want to save the date for our 2nd annual car show in Downtown Campbell. It'll be a family friendly good time with prize winning show cars on display for your viewing pleasure.

Save the Date

After a successful inaugural show, the Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show is returning for 2024 on Saturday, June 29th. This time there will be a little bit more of everything. We're still working out the details and we'll have more to tell you soon.

Car Show Entries

We don't yet have a date when we'll be opening up for entries into this year's car show, but we will post an announcement in advance of the opening date as soon as we have a date. If you want to be among the first to know, please watch the DowntownCampbell.com homepage or sign up for the Downtown Campbell mailing list. You can also follow us on Facebook or Instagram to get our announcements.

Spring break is just around the corner! Keep your children active with one of our Spring Break Camps!

Design your own Resource Packs for Minecraft Camp (8-11 yrs) 9am-12pm

Joyful Melodies Spring Music Camp (6-10 yrs) 9am-12pm or 12:15pm-3:15pm

Skyhawks Spring Break Multi-Sport Camp (7-12 yrs) 9am-12pm

Spring Break Art Camp (5-12 YRS) 9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm

World Cup Soccer: Junior Academy (5-6 yrs) 9am-12:30pm or 9am-3:00pm

World Cup Soccer: Classic Skills Camp (7-9 yrs) 9am-12:30pm or 9am-3:00pm

World Cup Soccer: Development Academy (10-13 yrs) 9am-12:30pm or 9am-3:00pm

Tennis: TDA Junior Beginner (7-12 YRS) 9:05am-12pm

Modeling and Animation with Blender Camp (12-14 yrs) 1:30pm-4:30pm

Mornings on the Move (3-6 yrs) Thursday, 4/11 9:30am-12pm

We've got some bad news. There won't be an Easter Egg Hunt this year at the Campbell Community Center.

The Eggstravaganza Easter Egg Hunt is an event produced by the Campbell Kiwanis Club and was spearheaded by one person, J.R. McKee, whose community contributions to the Campbell area community runs a mile long. He made that Easter Egg Hunt happen for many of its 41 years and he decided that last year's hunt would be his last.

The Campbell Kiwanis Club and their friends haven't found anyone to keep the event going so there won't be an egg hunt this year, but there are conversations happening to explore possibilities of bringing the event back next year.

The good news is that the Bunnies and Bonnets Easter Parade will still be happening at its usual time and we'll be stocking plenty of sidewalk chalk and bubbles for kids to play with before the parade starts. You're invited to come out early to have fun on the street in Downtown Campbell instead of spending the morning waiting for the egg hunt to start.

The annual Bunnies and Bonnets Parade in Downtown Campbell is less than two weeks away and we could use some extra volunteers to help us run the event. We'll be needing some people before the parade to hand out bubbles and chalk to kids and we may need help providing information to people coming to watch the parade as well as those coming to be in the parade.

If you'd like to help out at the parade, please fill out our Volunteer Registration Form. We also have other fun community events coming up that we'll need a hand at.