Lowrider Magazine #1 from 1977 -- complete scan

Iowahawk says: "Digging through my magazine stash yesterday, I found a pop-cultural artifact that might be of interest - the very first issue of Lowrider Magazine from January 1977."

I've written before about my admiration for lowriders and lowrider culture; but when it comes to chronicling the ranfla lifestyle, the real horse's mouth is Lowrider Magazine. After a humble birth in 1977 San Jose as a one-color mag distributed at area car shows, Lowrider has grown into an publishing institution with over 1.5 million readers worldwide, and spinoff publications like Lowrider Bike, Lowrider Truck, Lowrider Arte and Lowrider Euro.

As luck has it, in my magazine stash I have a copy of that very first issue: Lowrider Magazine #1, January 1977. Return with us now to those thrilling Cheech & Chong days of yesteryear, and enjoy a few hits.

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• [Tony Indindoli]

  Wow it’s amazing how so little has changed. The girls all wearing those trench coats, I never understood.

• [anangbhai]

  “There seems to be something missing here… like a link of some sort, maybe?”

  YTMND made using the pictures and the whole “nagger stole my bike” meme?

  Women with large posteriors and non-denial by all brothers?

• [devophill]

  There seems to be something missing here… like a link of some sort, maybe?

• [Tgg161]

  Is there a link? I don’t see it :-(

• [dculberson]

  http://iowahawk.typepad.com/

• [Kevitivity]

  Iowahawk is especially brilliant when it comes to politics… love his site.

• [MrBaliHai]

  Great stuff. I went to a high school in Los Angeles back in the ’70s that was about 40% Mexican and 60% Anglo, so the school was pretty evenly divided between surfers and low-riders. They hated each other with a passion because the low-riders lowered the rear ends of their cars and the surfers jacked ‘em up.

• [Dave X]

  Here’s a quartet of short operas, partially about lowriding– Robert Ashley’s “Now Eleanor’s Idea”…
  http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1009.html