Ride into Route 66 Summerfest
FOR DIEGO LUCERO, deputy director of the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts & Culture, this year’s Route 66 Summerfest will feel like walking through the evolution of the Mother Road. With four…
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Tag: Car Culture
Where Route 66 Still Moves
ON A WEEKEND NIGHT on Central Avenue, Route 66 does not feel historic. It feels active. Cars move slowly beneath old motel signs and storefront lights, an Impala rolling low, a Monte Carlo on wire…
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Take a Little Trip Through Lowrider Culture
I’D GROWN UP in Albuquerque seeing lowriders my whole life, but mostly in passing. One Sunday in 2017, I took my camera to Seventh Street and Central Avenue. I wanted to photograph scenes I’d only…
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Faith, Culture, and Lowriding
T HERE’S A CERTAIN SKILL —a vibe—to driving a lowrider. “You’ve got to lean back, turn on your radio, and just cruise it,” Arthur Angelo Medina says. Known to most as LowLow, Medina and his wife, Joan…
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