I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. Houston Street down to Canal, and Bowery over to Lafayette. This time we were up on the roofs throwing things down on them: Bricks, bottles, cans you could kill somebody if you hit em with a garbage can of rocks from 50 feet up. You push a guy up against a wall with a car, just push him till he hits the wall. It was just fighting all the time. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. 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? But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. We also used the 'whistle' as an all clear after the cops had given up chasing us around and it was safe to come back out. It was like one big family. Now, everybody else has a bike. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. 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. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). Theyd hang around. I saw a lot of people get killed and a lot of people go to jail. Basically, the Dirty Ones was the only gang that was friendly with us. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. It was just a lucky shot and it went right through this guys arm. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. 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. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. But he tires of being a Baldie, and the nail in the coffin, is when all the good members in a drunken stupor, sign up for the US Navy. One of the Red Wings yelled out, Are you the Fordham Baldies? At hearing this, Bernard, Angelo and Ernest approached the vehicle, standing about seven feet from the curb. I heard that he was like that because his mother was killed. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. I was already scared by being in jail. If you walked by somebodys block, they would chase you, shoot at you, and beat you down if they caught you. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. After 1940, the Jewish population faded and their diaspora paved the way for the hispanics to settle there. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. When you got caught doing something, they handcuffed you, took you down to the precinct, beat the shit outta ya, then took the information down. Wed drink winewere talking now maybe one oclock in the afternoon. After a few of them you could do anything. Little Italy was strictly Italian. One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. I caught a few. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. It was just: This is your part of Brooklyn, this is my part of Brooklyn. It got to the point where you couldnt walk outside of a radius of five or ten blocks. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. They became my brothers and sisters. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. A lot of shit went on. That was it. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. It would scare people. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. A lot of them I met through fighting with them. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. His father was a building super. Wed eat, drink wine, hang out, bullshit, discuss what we were going to do that day, whether we were going to go visit another club or if there was going to be some kind of party. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. I remember them strutting their stuff on the boardwalk dressed in black bikini bathing suits with red piping. Their members use racial epithets to describe their rivals. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. By the time they got there, however, the Baldies had left for their regular hangout on Belmont Ave a candy store called Piggys, hanging out and lolling about on the stoop. At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. It goes something like this: While at school, a rumour makes the rounds that the Baldies are coming to the school (insert school name here). Students are in an uproar and are on pins and needles, waiting for a Baldy invasion. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. They had another Italian neighborhood, down on Cherry Street and Madison that was just the same as ours. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. You were whacked out of your face. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. There was nothing you could do about it. At that time I was doing a lot of harm to the Dukes, and the cops figured, lets get him off the streets. They were knife-happy. You have to flip your colors. They started getting nasty. The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. The year is 1963 but their experiences are universal: falling in love, surviving in school and defending their turf against rivals like the Fordham Baldies, the Del Bombers and the Ducky Boys. There was hookers toohookers is what we mostly fucked. At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. We had colorsblue sweaters. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. 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. 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. Lost Boys of the Bronx: An Oral History of the Ducky Boys By James Hannon. 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." The book is 6x9 and has 370 pages! Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. Baldies didn't shave their heads and in reality wore Ducks Ass hairdoos like The Fonz and were named after bald eagles? Naturally, there were a lot of shot-up people. You had to have respect. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. Heroin was a big thing in the 60s. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. The next time you went to the club, theyd be there and it would be like, Oh, we had a fight with these guys last time. They said, Youre not supposed to be on our block. It didnt begin as a crime thing. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. His mind was OK, but hed be talking and hed start laughing cause he couldnt help it. In them days, it was no big thing. Bucks, the Gents and the Garrisons gangs. The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. Now were going to wear these denim jackets with patches on them. And then all of a sudden, youd find yourself claiming a piece of Brooklyn as your fuckin real estate. We buried each others brothers too much. I carried a .25, then later a 9 mm. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. Then they got out of the cars a second time and the guy ran away and Frankie ran after him. You wanna have a game of football? or sometimes wed say, F youse, were gonna come down and kick your asses. When we were drinking, wed scream down at them, Hey, you fuckin black bastards! Wed say something racial, you know? The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. 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 . It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. And nobody could fuck with that. But like I said, yeah, the cops beat your ass. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. Thats the bottom line. Wrong place, wrong time. And of course, you dont let nobody take your colors. Then, you know, the blacks started coming in and naturally there was tension and we banded together. formed. The battle lines between opposing armies had already It was where I was going to end up, whether I wanted to or not. Everybody else ran. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. 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. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. Wed get harassed by the cops all the time, but then again, that was a time when if you had a fight on the street, the cops would grab you, kick you in the ass, and send you on your way like, Get outta here. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. They werent very accurate, either. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. And a lot of these girls from these clubs, let me tell you, a lot of them could have been better fighters than Alis daughter. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. Dukes, as they were waiting for the "Chaplins" (Chaplains) to arrive. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. Little by little the white gang broke up. At the end they looked like gladiators. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. On Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at around noon hour, six Red Wings arrived at Orchard Beach, the Bronx in a dark-coloured 41 Cadillac, driven by Frank Giampetruzzi who was AWOL from Camp Dix. Unless you also plan on making an article for the early 20th century, I'd suggest you leave of 'mid'. All of us went to school together. 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. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two We made sure nobody messed with them. They parked the Caddy and settled in at Section 17 of Orchard Beach which at the time was divided into 27 sections (now it is divided into 13 sections). But I never did. one fistfights and it would be over. In fact, we protected people. I was always aware. 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. I never jumped anybody. This event took place in Washington Heights, This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. We hung around Aberdeen Park. 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 . The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. If anything happened to one of us, we had all of these guys. Heroin was the drug of choice. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with So there wasnt one particular reason. I never let anybody get close to me or walk behind me. Like if we were walking down the street and we saw one of the Spanish guys with his girlfriend, we wouldnt beat him up. It was easier to sell. The gangs started separating. And the drugs? Everybody kept their eyes open. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. We would hang out in these abandoned buildings that we had electricity running into. It was a crazy neighborhood. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. I used to steal a lot from factories. Its much harsher than coke. --rocketrye12 talk/contribs 03:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I moved it to Bronx gangs (mid-twentieth century), please mind your capitalization. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. I would go anywhere Jews worked because on Fridays, they cant put on the light, the air conditioning, nothing. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. You have every type of person in every club. Some of the cops knew us too. Most were dressed in the 'uniform In the back of the park there were freight trains that ran underneath and there was one tunnel that was closed off due to an explosion. We were able to do that, whereas the newcomers werent. 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. He left behind a wife and child. All of them met violent deaths. It wasnt too hard to see the handwriting on the wall. "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. In 1957, the Viceroys stabbed and killed an Enchanter. To Manhattan, then back across the bridge, and once we got to Brooklyn they would just split off to their side and wed keep driving to our side, like it was nothing. That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. 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. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. I remember my first encounter with a drive-by. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. 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. Who was I supposed to hang out with? They didnt look like they bathed. Chair (JMH 642) Bionanotechnology, Biochemistry, and Nanomedicine. I dont have any emotions anymore. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. They were like, "Who's the. They were a very big club. 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. Thats all I ever wanted to do. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. That was the year when it started getting real serious. Its even like that now. Search . Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. You just couldnt believe it. He got killed a few years later. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. We were just crooks, you know what I mean? Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. He was from the Marcy Projects and he would always come down with a gun. Before that, date rape was the usual. The Duckies got their name because the original guys hung out at the Duck pond in the Bronx Botanical Gardens and shot at the ducks with slingshots, therefore, they eventually called themselves "Duckies". For each institution, films are listed by release date, starting with the most recent. The son made it seem like it was a burglary, and we made off with all his weapons. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. I got into the gangs very, very early. Prostitution was everywhere too. After that it was acidPurple Haze. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. We were always armed. Also, we used to have a lot of gay guys come around and theyd get us a couple pills, some marijuana, and bullets for our zip guns. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. Mostly we drank wine. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. They thought I had control over their leader. We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. 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. There was a guy called the Baron and a guy called Bob the Queer, and theyd get us whatever we wanted. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. Gang wars were very infrequent and when they did occur hardly ever was there any firearms used. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. Overdosed, stuff like that. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. lol" Another former gang member from the Garrisons had this to say about the Duckies: "If you were planning to visit the Botanical Gardens in the Bronx you needed to concern yourself with the "Duck(ie)s." Legend has it, if you are visiting the Bronx Botanical Gardens and blast out a 'Duckie Whistle', Duckies will show up to greet you till this day! Its something you die for, like a flag. Everybody fights to kill. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. It was something for show. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. I got locked up with another friend of mine. Read more about Bronx Gangs (1950s1960s): Popular Culture, who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Batteryto holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and childrenbrought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain and drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo,Allen Ginsberg (b. So our style of dress and everything was like them. Id be there for a few hours. And they wouldnt flip colors. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. Wed get high and go into the city. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). There were opium dens down in Chinatown. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. The 2 external links that I supplied give a lot more detail and documentation, and I suggest that the next editor of this piece start there. They made us have a big meeting in Junior High School 73. It was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. Back then you just hung out with the right people. I ran up and down the fire escape, taking a lot of the tenants out. Fordham Baldies: As their name suggests, they are all bald, reportedly to prevent their hair from getting in their eyes during a fight. Someone from the car said, you called us punks. Both pistols were then brought out and six shots rang out from both guns, brandished by Ciappetta and Gugliemelli. I always sniffed. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. The gangs -- with names such as the Ducky Boys, Del Bombers and Fordham Baldies (who really are bald) -- are racially segregated. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. Film Details Also Known As Wanderers MPAA Rating R Genre Adaptation Comedy Drama Period Release Date 1979 Distribution Company KINO LORBER/ORION PICTURES Technical Specs Duration 1h 53m Sound Stereo Color Color (Technicolor) Theatrical Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1 You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. 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