[Boys on Lowrider Bicycles at Cinco de Mayo Festival]

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Photograph of three unidentified young men riding lowrider bicycles along Bell Avenue during the Denton Cinco de Mayo festival with Johnny Joe's Convenience Store & Gas Station visible in the background. Two of the boys can be seen with the wearing the colors of Mexico on their bikes. The boy in the green shirt is wearing a gold necklace that says, Juan. Their bikes have chain steering wheels, twisted handlebars, forks, and spokes, and white trim lowrider wheels.

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1 photograph : col. ; 4 x 6 in.

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Cabrales, John May 6, 2000.

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Photograph of three unidentified young men riding lowrider bicycles along Bell Avenue during the Denton Cinco de Mayo festival with Johnny Joe's Convenience Store & Gas Station visible in the background. Two of the boys can be seen with the wearing the colors of Mexico on their bikes. The boy in the green shirt is wearing a gold necklace that says, Juan. Their bikes have chain steering wheels, twisted handlebars, forks, and spokes, and white trim lowrider wheels.

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  • May 6, 2000

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Cabrales, John. [Boys on Lowrider Bicycles at Cinco de Mayo Festival], photograph, May 6, 2000; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1138609/: accessed April 17, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.

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