Solis said upward of 2,000 cars have turned out for cruising events, disrupting bus service and shutting down Whittier Boulevard and surrounding streets, despite a 1997 ordinance that prohibits ...

Growing crowds and rising violence led the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to shut down the weekend tradition known as cruising Whittier Boulevard. ...Whittier Blvd. on a Saturday night.

In 1965, on weekend nights in East Los Angeles, Mexican-American teenagers would hop in their cars to cruise up and down Whittier Boulevard. There, they met up with friends while listening to ...

EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A parade of classic lowriders slowly cruised down Whittier Boulevard ... The 1979 movie "Boulevard Nights" helped introduce low riding and cruising to the world.

If you happen to be driving down Whittier Boulevard, you might have noticed a sign saying that “vehicular cruising” is prohibited and warning of $500 fines and/or six-months in jail. Well, don’t take ...

More than 200 lowriders took to Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles on New Year’s Day to celebrate a new California law that lifts the restriction on lowrider cruising and rejoice in the ...

A pageant of lowriders rolled low and slow down Whittier Boulevard yesterday to celebrate Assembly Bill 436 which aims to overturn bans on cruising in California. Assemblyman David Alvarez ...

The practice began before World War II, spread across LA with the car culture of the 1950s and 60s, crested when the baby boomer hordes were at their most numerous and bored, and finally faded after ...

The city of Whittier will soon own and control its namesake boulevard. Caltrans is expected ... East L.A. saw a lot of young Latinos cruising with flashy cars in the ‘60s, as well as cruisers ...