From Scott Park
to the whole world
August, Scott Park, Carson
Over dinner at Kita’s house, he and Daniel Hunkin decide to start their own club. Ten members roll out of Scott Park in the Harbor Area of Los Angeles. "Uso" is Samoan for blood brother. The membership is mixed from day one, and the requirement for getting in is the person, not the car. The rides still had to be clean.
"No Color Lines"
The early motto pushes the club, and lowriding itself, past the boundaries of neighborhood and flag colors. Chapters start opening across California and then out of state.
Club of the Year
Lowrider Magazine names Uso its Club of the Year, the first of two. The magazine runs its first full feature on the club the next April.
Ten years. A new spelling.
For the tenth anniversary the family adopts the motto "Same Team, Same Scheme, Same Dream." Around the same time the United Service Organizations sends a cease-and-desist over the name, and partly out of respect for what that organization does for the military after September 11, the plaque becomes Uce: pronounced like deuce without the d, a short way of saying Uso. Same brothers, same blood.
Hall of Fame
Kita is inducted into the Lowrider Hall of Fame with the Leadership Honor at the fourth annual ceremony in Long Beach. By then he had counted 42 chapters at one time and a second Club of the Year.
Tribal King
After his Cadillac is totaled, the family buys and builds him a 1981 Coupe De Ville. It debuts at the Las Vegas Super Show for the club’s 25th anniversary.
Rest easy, Kita
Kita passes on February 8, 2020 in Elk Grove, California, at 61. More than 600 people fill his celebration of life in Roseville, outside Sacramento, two weeks before the world shut down.
Thirty years
The family comes home to Carson for the 30th anniversary. Detroit, flying the plaque since 2007, marks 15 years the same summer.
Thirty-plus chapters, worldwide
Hawaii to Australia, Sweden to Guam, Alaska to Canada, and up and down California. And a motorcycle club riding alongside. This site is where the whole family looks to see what's next.