BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (CNS) — A moving car rally and stationary concours-style auto show will be held in Beverly Hills Sunday to mark Father’s Day.
The rally portion of the 27th Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance will begin around 9:30 a.m. from Beverly Hills City Hall.
What organizers are billing as “50 of the world’s finest, fastest and most unique automobiles” will receive an escort from the Beverly Hills Police Department and head north on Crescent Drive to Sunset Boulevard, west on Sunset Boulevard to Cañon Drive, south on Cañon Drive to Beverly Drive, south on Beverly Drive to Wilshire Boulevard, then one block west to Rodeo Drive, where it will conclude.
The best viewing area will be along Beverly Drive between Sunset Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, organizers said. An Instagram livestream will begin around 10 a.m.
The Concours d’Elegance will run from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Rodeo Drive between Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, with Rolls-Royce the featured brand. An Instagram livestream is set for 11:30 a.m.
The Instagram link is at #rodeoconcours.
Archbishop José H. Gomez will give fathers a special blessing at the noon Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
The video of Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary’s Father’s Day Remembrance Service is posted at hillsidememorial.org/fathers-day.
In his Father’s Day proclamation, President Joe Biden said, “Every year on Father’s Day, we honor the men who help shape our character through their love, guidance and devotion. Dads and father figures across the country sacrifice so much to support their families and to ensure that their children can lead fulfilling lives.
“I remember my own father, who instilled in me some of the most important values that guide me to this day. He taught me to treat all people with dignity and that there is no higher calling than to be a good parent.”
Father’s Day began when Sonora Smart Dodd wanted to honor her father, William Jackson Smart, a single parent who raised six children in Spokane, Washington. She initially suggested June 5, the anniversary of his death.
However, when that date would not provide organizers with enough time to make arrangements, the first Father’s Day was celebrated in 1910 in Spokane on the third Sunday in June.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge recommended Father’s Day be a national holiday. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed Father’s Day as a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday in June, while President Richard Nixon signed a bill into law to do so in 1972.