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Sunday cruising and car culture on the South Side

CTL-E-1303 · Practice · other · 1940–2026

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Cars as display, status, and social life: dressed-up evening cruising and the practice of "gawking and being gawked at" on commercial strips; modern continuation in Chicago lowrider shows and cruising culture.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-039; source research type(s): practice.

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