It was a car show as much as it was a graduation. Every beautiful, well-maintained make and model of vehicle, freshly washed, went through that day. Graduation began with the slow procession of cars, students standing up in their convertibles, through their sunroofs or standing in truck beds, waving to the staff and other students as they cruised by. The staff, all masked up, had parked their cars in student stalls and set themselves up like one big tailgate party, with everyone staying 6 feet apart from one another. Students were given an approximate time to line up with their vehicles, driven mostly by parents, and then slowly they cruised through the parking lot up and down each row, waving to the staff. Other high schools had tried it, why couldn’t we? Thus, Helix Charter High School’s 2020 graduation promotion ceremony-by-car was conceived. We scrambled to put together some sort of graduation via Zoom when someone suggested a car parade through the student parking lot. ![]() High school teachers like me were all saddened for our seniors who just had all of their senior activities ripped out from under them. ![]() It was June 2020 and all high school graduations were shut down due to COVID-19. The power of misinformation is astounding and it makes me rethink many subconscious beliefs I might have.īut moreover, it was just a few years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that I got my first real experience with lowriders and what cruising was about. Yes, I believed this rubbish without ever considering what I was believing. However, I do remember believing that the word lowrider represented some sort of dangerous element - a hidden secret society that was up to no good. Thirty years ago, I was nominally aware of this lowrider ban. ![]() But my interest in the subject is deeper than that. Just saying candy apple red brings up an image I simultaneously want to stroke and then eat. They come in such beautiful colors and are meticulously clean and shiny. So maybe that is why I am interested in lowrider vehicles.
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