Lowrider Day takes place at San Jose City Hall plaza on Saturday, Aug. 30, from noon to 6 p.m. The event is organized by the United Lowrider Council of San Jose and Councilmember Peter Ortiz's office. Custom cars and lowrider bikes will be on display, with hop exhibitions and live music by the Santa Cruz Latin Collective. Santa Clara Street will be closed between Third and Seventh streets for the celebration. The event commemorates the day the city lifted a decades-long cruising ban originally enacted in 1986 and highlights efforts by Raul Peralez and community partners to end enforcement practices that targeted Latino drivers.
Get ready to get low, when Lowrider Day returns to the San Jose City Hall plaza on Saturday, Aug. 30. The smooth celebration of San Jose's lowrider culture - organized by the United Lowrider Council of San Jose and Councilmember Peter Ortiz's office - runs from noon and 6 p.m. The custom cars - as well as lowrider bikes - will roll onto the plaza and on Santa Clara Street, which will be closed between Third and Seventh streets.
The annual festivities commemorate the day when the city lifted its decades-long ban on cruising. The restrictions were put in place back in 1986 because of legitimate concerns about public safety and traffic congestion, but as then-Councilmember Raul Peralez pointed out, the law was sometimes misused as a pretext to pull over Latino drivers or anyone in a tricked-out lowrider.
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