The Van Nuys Lineup
Wednesday nights. The boulevard. Lowriders rolled low and slow from the 1950s through the 1970s, surfers caravanned 40 miles from the South Bay just to cruise. The city killed the cruise. They never killed the pride.
Van Nuys Boulevard, sundown to midnight, Wednesday nights. From the early 1950s through the late 1970s, this was the cruise capital of Southern California. Lowriders rolled low and slow. Mustangs revved at the lights. Bob's Big Boy parking lot was the meeting place. Surfers drove forty miles from the South Bay just to be there.
The city passed traffic ordinances against cruising in the early 1980s and the boulevard cruise officially ended. The legend never did. Lowrider clubs still come back. The chrome still shines on summer nights.
From 1947 to 1992, the General Motors Van Nuys Assembly plant built 6.3 million vehicles. Camaros. Firebirds. Impalas. The same Impalas that became the foundation of lowrider culture. Van Nuys did not just witness the lowrider scene. We literally manufactured the vehicles.
Van Nuys is the most populous neighborhood in the entire San Fernando Valley. Eight point ninety nine square miles. The Heart of the Valley is not a marketing tagline. It is geography and history.
Van Nuys Original carries blue and cream gothic script with the Born Here seal. Van Nuys California is a cleaner cursive read with the VN emblem. Both Pro Club heavyweight black cotton. Both built for the cruise night that never really ended.
$28 S to XL. $32 for 2XL through 5XL.
Premium Pro Club heavyweight tees built for the people who never left where they came from. Pacoima. San Fernando. Canoga Park. Van Nuys. North Hollywood. LA.
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