A
Ghetto Glider could also be a tricked out motorcycle. The routine was to slowly "Cruise" through the
Hood...ie;..
"Profiling" ..at slowspeed so you would be SEEN by the inhabitants.

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PS: Part of my upbringing was in Paterson, NJ, in the fifties. I moved out in 1959 when I went in the NAVY. It wasn't the Hamptons.