“Cruising is a tradition, and if the cruisers get yanked out of one area, they’ll just go somewhere else.” “It’s essentially a problem of migration,” the paper quotes a Rampart Division captain at the time, Frank Patchett, who states a fact that sounds as true to last week as it does to four decades ago. In 1985, the paper noted frustrations that cruisers, locked out of Van Nuys and Whittier boulevards by enforcement measures, were meeting in Elysian Park, drawing as many as 2,000 vehicles at a time, largely young people and “almost exclusively Latino.”
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Law enforcement and city governments have long sought to crack down on the practice, with the issue frequently making front-page news in The Times. has had a love-hate relationship with the culture for generations. The gathering returned in late August after local leaders negotiated among car clubs, residents and law enforcement in East Los Angeles. cruise night centered on Whittier Boulevard because other motorists were swarming the surrounding parking lots and residential streets. Last summer, Ramirez and his coalition of veteranos had to call off the East L.A.
The car club gatherings have also been drawing other types of vehicles driven by a younger set of motorists influenced more by the “ Fast and the Furious” franchise than the 1979 barrio classic “ Boulevard Nights.”
“A lot of people are starting to adapt to this culture,” Ramirez says. It’s never gone,” says Juan Ramirez, a member of the Just Memories Car Club and an organizer with the Los Angeles Lowrider Community coalition.īut he acknowledges that fresh popularity is drawing people to the cruises with no cars to show off at all. “I hear people saying lowriding is making a comeback. Cruising is back in a major way all around Southern California. Masks are mandated, at least on the fliers. The sounds of funk, freestyle and R&B oldies ooze loudly from passing cars. Onlookers post up on the sidewalk, sometimes with folding chairs and coolers. It’s a monthly meetup of lowrider and custom vehicle owners but also a street party. Molina is one of dozens of car lovers drawn to Van Nuys Boulevard for a long-running cruise night. “It’s a rare find, because it’s a shorty box, no windows.” Molina says of his father’s van. But it emotes a certain character, in the way a well-loved car often does. Parked on Van Nuys Boulevard, the in-process remodel looks a bit out of sorts, not quite as polished as the other lowriders and vintage cars drifting by.
Consider Mike Molina’s powder blue 1972 E-100 Econoline Ford van, which he inherited after his father and then his mother died during the early months of the pandemic.
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