{"id":370186,"date":"2026-06-22T14:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370186\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:04:20","slug":"sacramento-lowriders-celebrate-holiday-cruise-on-capitol-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370186\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento lowriders celebrate holiday cruise on Capitol Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lowriders<\/p>\n

Lowriders cruise along Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

HG BIGGS<\/p>\n

hg.biggs@sacbee.com<\/p>\n

June 21, 2026<\/p>\n

Over 150 brightly colored, lovingly detailed cars cruised down Capitol Mall on Sunday for the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration. The event was organized by Cruising for Community, a local volunteer organization committed to sharing lowrider culture with the public.<\/p>\n

Frank Franco stood next to his 1937 Dodge, as he recalled the early days of lowriding in Sacramento. Franco credited his oldest brother with instilling the love for cars that he still carries today. He remembers helping his oldest brother throw rocks in the back of his truck to lower the back end of the car.<\/p>\n

\"Frank Frank Franco poses for a portrait with his 1937 Dodge during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Franco credits his oldest brother with getting him into lowriding and recalls helping load rocks in the back of his oldest brother\u2019s truck to lower the back end of the car. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Streets once posted with \u201cno cruising\u201d signs now play host to a joyful gathering of hundred of lowriders, their families and friends and car enthusiasts from across the western United States. In June 2022,<\/a> the final \u201cno-cruising\u201d sign was removed from Sacramento. While Sacramento police had not enforced the ban for years, the repeal of the 1988 ordinance and the signs along Franklin Boulevard and Broadway was a milestone.<\/p>\n

Antonio Cardenas, known as \u201cOG\u201d to many, remembers when that ordinance was first enacted. Cardenas is a member of The Originals car club, which he founded as a 20 year-old in 1976. \u201cI\u2019ve been lowriding for 54 years. That\u2019s a lifetime, so I\u2019m not gonna quit anytime now,\u201d Cardenas said.<\/p>\n

\"Antonio Antonio Cardenas, known to many as \u201cOG,\u201d poses for a portrait in his 1954 Bell Air during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Cardenas is a member of The Originals car club, which he founded as a 20 year-old in 1976. \u201cI\u2019ve been lowriding for 54 years. That\u2019s a lifetime, so I\u2019m not gonna quit anytime now,\u201d Cardenas said. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Feathers Feathers adorn Antonio Cardenas\u2019s hat at the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Cardenas founded The Originals car club and has been lowriding since 1976. He is known as \u201cOG\u201d to many. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my brother that inspired me because he used to be an artist,\u201d said Cardenas. He remembers his brother drawing roses on the dashboard of his car. \u201cThat\u2019s when I took a liking to lowriding,\u201d he said. When Cardenas first started lowriding, drivers had to build all the car\u2019s hydraulic components themselves to raise and lower the front or back tires. \u201cWhen the cops came by, and they\u2019d seen us and we were low, we\u2019d pick it up. Raise it high, so they couldn\u2019t stop us anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favorite memory is Franklin Boulevard,\u201d said Cardenas. \u201cBack in them days, we didn\u2019t have cellphones, so it was by word of mouth. We used to drive all the way to San Jose, and tell \u2018em to come down to Sacramento and visit us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lowriders Lowriders cruise along Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Cardenas described lowriding culture as starting within the family. \u201cThe car would stay in the family for generations, and then they started fixing them up because they had so much love for the car,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like a rolling art.\u201d The car Cardenas stands beside today has been his work of art for 40 years.<\/p>\n

Cardenas was one of the lowriders instrumental in changing the local ordinances that allowed enthusiasts to cruise around Sacramento again. \u201cI made a promise to myself that I would get them \u2018no-cruising\u2019 signs down,\u201d said Cardenas. \u201cBefore I pass away, I wanted to do these things, and they\u2019ve been done. I\u2019ve crossed them off my list.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lowriders Lowriders cruise along Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Yazlyn, Yazlyn, left, laughs, as she chats with Mayra of the Lady Lowriders car club in Mayra\u2019s lowrider, Ms. Champagne, during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Gold Gold detailing adorns one of the cars from the Lady Lowriders car club at the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Amari Amari Touray dances alongside lowriders on Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Edgardo Edgardo Garcia poses for a portrait in his 1965 Chevy Impala during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Garcia has owned the car for over 30 years. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Gold Gold detailing adorns the headlights on Edgardo Garcia\u2019s 1965 Chevy Impala during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Garcia has owned the car for over 30 years. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Lowriders Lowriders and car enthusiasts admire cars parked along Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com \"Lowriders Lowriders cruise along Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21, 2026. HG BIGGS hg.biggs@sacbee.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lowriders cruise along Capitol Mall during the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration in Sacramento on Sunday, June 21,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-370186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}