Mostly we drank wine. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. But I stole. A lot of guys got hurt, and a couple a guys got hurt really bad. It was a crazy neighborhood. That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. The problem with that was, if you snatched one of their hats in the wrong neighborhood, youd have a hell of a chase. On weekdays, there was always some 'ducky members' to be found playing hooky." They said, Youre not supposed to be on our block. We quit school at 16, and we went up to the park, we drank wine, and we ran up and down the street beating each other up. Everybody kept their eyes open. We were so fuckin' broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. Back in those days, we always had a clubhouse. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. They help people out. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. He had hair just like mussolini in real life, and I'm the princess of canada although I can't offically back that up with paperwork. After I received this email, I received yet another email, this time from Ernests niece who has some stories to share about Ernest that her father shared with her. It could more than double in size at that point. My mentality wasnt, I have to join that gang. It was, I like the guy, the guy likes me. Before you knew it, I married the president of the gang. Even some of the names used are real. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. Not many fights broke out there. Oh yeah, and if you went down on a girl then, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood afterward. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. one fistfights and it would be over. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. If you remember the scene where they tied a rope to the penises of two guys on a bridge and threw a cinder block over the side down to the a river, that was the Bronx River near French Charlie's baseball field. Then another five would do another dance routine, and it became like a fucking dance-off. A lot of shit went on. We rumbled with their guys, and that started a war between the clubs. We werent selling, we were just using. Like 12 or 13. Apparently Mario and Ernest looked very much alike and although Mario didnt discuss the death of his brother, it was something that Marios son always knew about. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. banerjee@fordham.edu. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. We had a clubhouse. That happened a lot. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. Wed drink winewere talking now maybe one oclock in the afternoon. In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. This page is not available in other languages. Everything started out with sweaters. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. And of course, you dont let nobody take your colors. If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. Yeah, it was nice. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. You usually carried a knife, something to protect you. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price; its screenplay was written by Philip Kaufman and his wife Rose. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. The 70s was real nice. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. One guys father was a hunter, and he went on vacation. Somebody else could come and rob your mother and you wouldnt like it. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. But back then, if you had a girlfriend, if you were getting laid, you were the king of the mountain. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). To make a zip gun you buy a cap gun. Theres a lot of people walking around messed up to this day, and a lot of people dead. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. Set in the Bronx in 1963, the film follows a gang of Italian-American teenagers known as the Wanderers and their ongoing power struggles with rival gangs such as the Baldies and the Wongs. At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. The Fordham Baldies were one of the gangs featured in the movie "The Wanderer". However, in this case below, the violence was actually with another white gang called the Fordham Baldies. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. Our big thing was buying cough medicine. The apartments were filled with rats and roaches, we had no heat or hot water half the time, pipes were falling down, ceilings were leaking. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. So it worked both ways. Then he became the President of the Majestics. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. We didnt even have to do anything. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Sometimes people got hit by cars. I do think a cross-reference to similar Brooklyn movies (and Mean Streets) makes sense, but as a Wiki neophyte and busy guy, I don't have the time to do it. If you walked by somebodys block, they would chase you, shoot at you, and beat you down if they caught you. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bronx_gangs_(1950s1960s)&oldid=1101692437, This redirect does not require a rating on the project's, This page was last edited on 1 August 2022, at 09:49. Life magazine ran a big story on us. Our turf was Lee Avenue and Lynch Street. Its cheaper than coke, and you get whacked on it. Wed fire at a guy standing three feet away, and wed miss. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. Here is what Piggys Candy Store looks like today now it appears to be an Islamic school. If you want to talk about family members alone, Ive lost five. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. This is my hood. Giampetruzzi, Bonano, Santanielli and the rest of the Red Wings high tailed it out of the Bronx back to East Harlem, seething over the insults and plotting revenge. It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. Sweater by United Bamboo, jeans by Levis. Big deal.. My kid brother ended up dying. In the 1960s, among students citywide, truancy increased and socializing gained priority, whereby other high schools often issued diplomas once their requirements were met via Roosevelt's evening and summer . We went for the cheap wine. But it wasnt like they asked us to. Two friends of mine once had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the argument happened. With a peculiar frequency, a click of the cable remote shows the Fordham Baldies hanging out at the corner of Fordham Road and Grand Concourse, the foot chase through 1963 central Bronx alleyways . They didnt look like they bathed. Most were dressed in the 'uniform In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. It was like 50 cents a bottle. This was 1960 through 1962. You won. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. I saw a lot of people get killed and a lot of people go to jail. Anybody who had a Boy after their nameJohnny Boy, Frankie Boythey were always in trouble, cause they were always trying to prove they were a man. Nobody would fuck with us. I think I was under that car for half an hour, until I heard my guys yelling my name. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. For everybodyespecially our people but even for strangers, what we called Merigans, like Ameriganswe had respect for all of them. I got into the gangs very, very early. Everybody fights to kill. All those clubs that were fighting back then hang out together now. I'm kind of busy so don't know if I can do much here, but if I come across things that are relevant, I'll add them. We had a gang that started in high school. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. It went right through his forearm. Just passing through. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. There were also after school programs Stephanie went to that had a lot of activities for the kids. Our "uniform" was teal bowling shirts with black velvet vertical stripes. Not every club was friendly. And we used to ride over to East 3rd in Manhattan, to the Hells Angels, and visit with them and whatnot. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. During the day wed just be hanging out, walking the streets of Brooklyn, meeting people, going to parties. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. I ran up and down the fire escape, taking a lot of the tenants out. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. There were like 20 of us. And sometimes it didnt. Egyptian Dragons". Then you tie the hammer up with rubber bands, pull it back, and let it go. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. We were big wine drinkers. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. I carried guns for them if we had to go to a rumble or something because at the time the police wouldnt check the girls. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. Every time he came by the block there was a shootout, so everybody was always aware when he was passing by. He suffers from asthma. The fordam baldies aka belmont baldies aka baldie mob shaved their heads as far back as the 1940's and hung out at a candy store on belmont between 189th and fordham. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. I remember the older guys coming around and passing the word that if any white kid in the neighborhood stole an old ladys pocketbook, they would have their hands and legs broken. I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. Baseball Baseball: Facebook Baseball: Twitter Baseball: Instagram Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Facebook Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: Twitter Cross . Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. The bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. Then you had the Satans Souls for a while, who were on South 5th and Hoover. You know what beer muscles are, right? Im 50 now, and I havent been back. You lived in an apartment with four rooms and four people, and it was so close that you really lived in the street because you had to get out of the house. You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. Jumping back in Giampettruzzis Cadillac, the five Red Wings headed back to Orchard Beach. I never did, but I know there were guys in the gang that did. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. Why you crying? You know whyyou shot my brother. It was crazy. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. As mentioned above, they were a powerful gang and continued to make their presence known up to at least 1959, which by that time had killed two more times. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. I always sniffed. I added a stub to stave off the CSD folks - the article does need fleshing out, but as a stub you should be given some time to do so. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. I got arrested October 1980, came home December 1993. The bullet penetrated his abodmen wall and because of the injury his leg became gangrenous and he had to have his right leg amputated several inches above the knee. We made sure nobody messed with them. Or somebody would tell me, Listen, I got a van, brand new, and I wanna collect insurance. So he would tell me where he parked it. Mario was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. Having an Active Minds Chapter in your school can be an important step in changing the conversation about mental health. formed. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. But thats the way they did it in those days. The battle lines between opposing armies had already The memories are all roughly the same, or close to it. In them days, it was no big thing. We just got along. Before that, date rape was the usual. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. Bucks, the Gents and the Garrisons gangs. He got killed a few years later. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. There was one place on South 9th where the landlordhe was a Hasidicsaw that as long as we were in the building, none of the tenants complained about the addicts burglarizing them or people shooting up in the hallways or on the roof or anything like that. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . He couldnt show up to collect his rent. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. Like one time, I saw it was clear through so I just patched it up, and forgot about it. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. Dusty Vision TV on Facebook and IG Hit the subscribe and notification (bell) button!BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Wanderers Ducky Boys Lost Boys of The Bronx James HannonI dont not own the rights to any music in this videoDusty Vision TV Instagram: Dusty Vision TVFacebook: Dusty Vision TVIf you would like to be a guest on my program please email me at dustyangeloddcast@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram \"Dusty Vision TV\"Check out my other youtube channel \"Dusty Vision Radio\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCpoV0wVvjtGQN5ijpjGKACheck out my music. It was an abandoned building. After 1940, the Jewish population faded and their diaspora paved the way for the hispanics to settle there. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. You showed up at the park at seven and we walked down Bushwick Avenue and wed do what we had to do. She used to be a dispatcher for a car service. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. That was my opportunity. Unlike the idiotic movie the wanderers, however, they didn't have any blacks in the gang, they went around to other neighborhoods to see if they could find some to beat up. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. You had to have respect. Then Id go into this one restaurant, talk to the guy I knew there, find out if there was any food from breakfast left99 percent of the time there wasand hed pack it up and give it to me. at the Astoria Houses at 27th Ave. Patrol cars screamed into both I got locked up with another friend of mine. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. BRONX, UPTOWN SPADES,HARLEM TURKETTES, SATAN ANGELS, SAVAGE SKULLS, ROYAL JAVILINS, GESTAPO CREW, THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION, and THE REAPERS 1ST DIV/MAIN DIV/ AND Juniors. Little Italy was strictly Italian. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams If youre in my club, I take you at face value. Second, I want to expand the introduction. Looking to gather allies to their fight as the Del-Bombers have bigger numbers, The Wanderers get rejected (humiliatingly) by the Fordham Baldies and by the Chinese Wongs. We had a buyer for every piecenot even from garages. Italians were Italians in those days. I got in, it was dark, and then when I put on the light all I saw was coffins, so I ran out. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. We didnt have rules or initiations. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. People started making money on their own and they forgot about their buddies. We had nobody left, so we said, Whats the use in fighting? We got to the point where we got older, we had girlfriends, we started getting cars, and we left the neighborhood. You could see how things escalated. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. The rest of them are scattered to the wind. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . True, that could be any college. This guy Georgie Grout, he had a car antenna and he threw it down and this guy must have been, I dunno, 40 feet away? We burned fires in the tunnels in the winter to stay warm, and we went swimming in the Bronx river when it was hot. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. Its even like that now. What was so funny was that a lot of the people were intermingled, family-wise. I went into the service in 66. They heard that the Italian Dukes were brother gangs with the Fordham Baldies, so if you were walking around with an Italian Dukes jacket, they didnt fuck with you. It was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the areas at 8 PM. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. I was already scared by being in jail. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. It was a mixed group, Italians, Blacks and Irish boys who had grown up together. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. NYC. Its something you die for, like a flag. I remember them strutting their stuff on the boardwalk dressed in black bikini bathing suits with red piping. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. Their gang was the Comanchero Chaplains. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. They were a very big club. They yell one word in Yiddish, and everybody comes out the woodwork. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. When you left your house you had to worry about somebody grabbing you and kicking your ass. Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. They were all afraid of us. What do you think?--rocketrye12 talk/contribs 04:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], Sorry, didn't see this discussion - I changed the name to Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s) because that is specifically what is being discussed. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. You stick a car antenna in it and file down the part that you cock backthe hammer. TRIKER1 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply], I read the article twice and I still have no idea what most of it was talking about. The reputation of the Baldies name had preceded them and the mere mention of Baldies, was good enough to get everyone worried about an impending gang attack. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. the Saracen Lords and the Nobles. One of my friends who I wanted to get high with said, You wanna get high, you gotta watch this. And he shot up and he said, Im doing this so you can see what I do, and I said, I dont want nothing to do with that. And I never did it. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. And then when youre like 13 or 14, you start to hang out a little bit and the older guys start to notice you and start to talk to you and before you knew it youd been groomed into what they were. People hustled their money. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. My brothers were making money selling drugs but I didnt want to get into it. They werent very accurate, either. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. When they got back to East Harlem, they dropped off Hall, Bella and DePetris, but picked up two new Red Wings, Frank Ciappetta and Vincent Gugliemelli. It was like a game. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. had zip-guns. I am currently researching these two killings one in 1958 and the other in 1959 and hope to write about them in more detail in the future. We were able to do that, whereas the newcomers werent. I could make up to $20. This was found to be a nice touch in the Wanderers movie, but in reality, the Fordham Baldies were named for the Bald Eagle and had the Duck's Ass or "D.A." They were knife-happy. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. It was something for show. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on We had a lot of guys in the gangsometimes we had 40, sometimes we had 60, sometimes we had 100. There was always some guy who got beat up and they took the sweater and we had to go find out who took it and get it back. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. I didnt do that. When he died, my brother Carlos took over. In that neighborhood, if you werent in a gang, you just went to school and you were fine, but if you were in a gang your chances of survival were 50/50. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. That was East New York. 1926), Words gane to the kitchen,And words gane to the ha,That Marie Hamilton gangs wi bairnTo the hichest Stewart of a.Unknown. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. Ive snorted a lot of cocaine in my fuckin life, but these guys I know who used to do snuff, their noses used to fuckin bleed. I always used to buy magazines just to check out the bikes. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. Actually, I wish I could go back a couple years. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. Bernard Caleo and Angelo DiVincenzo were seated on the stoop in front of the candy store, unaware of what was about to happen. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. It didnt begin as a crime thing. With us in the building, there was security. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. On that day the Baldies happened to be in Section 11 and when someone asked for help, they proceeded to Section 17 to inform the Red Wings that this was their area. And then it got built up even more. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. Its much harsher than coke. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. It was a gangster neighborhood. I never robbed anybody. This guys sister might be living with that guys brother, or you might have a kid with that guys sister. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. It was the stomping grounds of both the real-life Fordham Baldies gang, immortalized by Richard Price in The Wanderers, as well as where then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed a. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. Wed break into cars, stuff like that. We were fighting with everybody. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. I had a very bad temper back then. Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. If we had a problem between us, wed all go meet over at City Hall and wear different color bandanas so people knew where you were from. It was just a lucky shot and it went right through this guys arm. 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