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UPDATE: Entries for the 2024 Car Show have been closed.

The Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show is coming on June 29th! Many of our favorites from last year are returning along with a whole fleet of stunning newcomers of all kinds and vintages that we can't wait to show you.

If you want to enter the show, we're still taking entries, but don't wait too long. We're going to run low on space soon.

We also have a few sponsorship slots left for local businesses and organizations.

See our official car show event page for more information.

A couple of months ago we announced that the RetroFix in Downtown Campbell was intending to go out with a bang on April 14th.

There was a loud bang alright, but it wasn't the sound of RetroFix leaving. It was the sound of racous cheering when the shop's owner, Rudy, announced with his entire team and community standing there with him announced that at the last minute he was able to work something out with the building owner to continue building the community hangout and business that he'd been dreaming of building his entire life.

On their "last day" the RetroFix held what was to be their final swap meet and mini-con. Normally their mini-cons have a single theme. It's retro games, Anime, or collectible toys. As a farewell, they blended their two biggest communities for the last hurrah. The Anime people and the retro games people were all there together for a sendoff.

At the end of the event, Rudy gave a straight from the heart talk from memory where he thanked everyone who had sacrificed for him and with him to make the place even possible. Instead of saying goodbye, he teased that with this new lease on life, they have plans, but couldn't talk about them yet.

The Downtown Campbell Car Show is a great opportunity for your business or organization to be seen. Because our car show is about doing fun things to create community and supporting small locally owned businesses, we've kept the sponsorship rates affordable to allow more businesses and organizations that love Campbell to participate.

We're keeping this simple. It's just one rate. $350 gets you on the back of this year's t-shirt plus you get on our sponsor grid on the official Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show Page.

If you'd like to join in and support our car show with a sponsorship, please email [email protected] for details. Space is limited to 24 sponsors.

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.

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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.

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Brain fog is not a medical condition recognized by the DSM-5. Rather, it’s a symptom of another underlying issue, commonly caused by one of these mental disorders. Chronic stress and anxiety, along with other underperforming elements of your health, manifest in this annoying state of mental cloudiness. When experiencing brain fog, this murky state of mind causes you to forget things and traps you in a total haze. To that end, it’s important to note that brain fog ranges in intensity and duration on a case-by-case basis. Here are some other symptoms that indicate your inability to focus is, in fact, brain fog.

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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.