It turned out that he was hosting a cruise night on Van Nuys Blvd. Suggested attire for men includes trousers and collared shirts (ties and jackets are optional but not required). Mostly we would run the Sunset Strip, but cruising with the door windows down (rears were fixed) and the radio blasting was the thing to do. And the typical American cars got terrible mileage, so fueling a car back then was significantly more expensive than today. In fact, its the car clubs who implore attendees to respect the boulevard the most. After the heavy cruising crackdowns in the 1980s and '90s, locals began reviving the cruise night around 2009. People riding in the back of a pickup truck without getting arrested. dutifully
In the San Fernando Valley, Bobs Big Boy drive-in restaurant opened along Van Nuys Boulevard in the early-50s and quickly became the center attraction and collection point, the place to be and be seen. Those pictures and gas prices remind me of what I got to drive in the early 70s, after I got my license Dads 67 Chevelle hardtop. In 1979, William Sachs shot the movieVan Nuys Blvd.with actress Cynthia Wood about cruising the famous boulevard. Im 50, wife is 61. And there are definitely trade offs in skills or lack there of between generations. Blue Collar Americans, College Students etc. Exact blocks on Van Nuys Blvd may vary each Cruise Night. The photos
All of these pictures would make excellent album covers. My wife and I made it out to the Valley from South Bay once in a while in my 56 Chevy with its 66 327: it did DRINK Premium quite rapidly! were exposed at 1/8th of a second, and some at faster, slightly more normal,
of anyone reacting unpleasantly, I could wait for the best instant to
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But still. A yellow Volkswagen bus, parked along the road, drew smiles and waves from the the spectators. Now they just pulled in the alley, backed
grabbed on Friday and Saturday nights. Most products today are soulless. It would be interesting to see where everyone is at now. . change I might add. border-color: #000000; For the past 25 years cars have been too boring to be part of the party and the youngest generations have lost interest. YouTube. Since I have always tried to own vehicles that avoided being bland, I felt kind of out of place driving the rental white Fairmont Futura we were in. Anybody that lived in SoCal back in the 70's and 80's and. document.write(''); Get the Fuel Curve Insider and get the top posts delivered to your inbox each week. But I still sent it to him. from my days at Van Nuys High School in the early sixties. In Van Nuys there are a lot of coffee shops and parks. Cool pics, my Firebird was assembled at the Van Nuys plant in late 1991 and was then shipped to the old continent. border: 1px solid; 1940-ish six unit apartment complex that occupied the space between 'our'
I was there in 72, got my license on my 16th birthday on Jan 28th, totaled my 66 Beetle that summer and replaced it with the 63 a few days later, along with switching the 66 1300 with the 63 40 horse engine and 71 high back seats and removing the Clarion stereo with its 12 volt converter. In the mid 1960s I remember the local bargain gas station at the intersection of Rt. Does every cruise have a captains dinner? So glad I read your post about these pics probably being taken on a cruise night. border: 1px solid; my folks did not. Back then in NY we still had fun street racing on Francis Lewis Blvd with our GTOs,SS 396, Mustangs and the like. The hair and the clothing styles, those were spot on through the rest of the 70s until I guess I stopped paying attention to what people were wearing at some point in the early 80s. in the boulevard scene since the beginning of 1966, I knew it well, and
The Van Nuys cruise night has been going on and off since the 60's and is currently popular again. The sign? United States. border: 1px solid; It speaks from so many angles. . for very long exposures. I cant for the life of me figure out if the biker in Pic 6 has his lady with him, or his kid. border: 1px solid; Have to admit I like the times better in the mid-60s than the 70s. NEXT. (Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News-SCNG, Vintage cars and trucks line Van Nuys Blvd on Wednesday cruise night in Van Nuys. Muscle cars in the pro touring mold today are all essentially Foose clones as far as I can tell, and growing up in the 90s hot rods all had that boydster look to them. Greene located same car model, bought it, and now cruises the Blvd again on Wednesday cruise nights. Cool to see elements of what many would consider to be the early days of the Lowrider scene here. Endeavor to discover something new everyday, no matter how big or small. . Those garages served a small, quaint
The candy paints, the graphics in the side sculpting, low profile white line tires, low stance(hydraulics?) Yes; me too. by the way, was the northernmost boundary of Sherman Oaks, if you crossed
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