For eight years, DJ Tom Brooks has entertained folks from his Travlin’ Tunes trailer parked on W. Dearborn Street in Englewood. Brooks, a former electrical contractor, is best known as the host of the monthly Cruisin’ on Dearborn event that takes place the first Saturday of every month.

What started as a hobby years ago turned out to be what Brooks called, “The best of all possible worlds.” “I get to play music I like, see great cars and meet really nice people,” he explained. “In the eight years that I’ve been coming to Dearborn Street, I’ve never seen people acting rowdy or anything like that. I hold dozens of cruise-in’s in big and small Florida towns, but Englewood,to me, is the most ‘homey.’”