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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." It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams Wed hang out in the park at night. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. 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. And they wouldnt flip colors. If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. Heroin was the drug of choice. The Fordham Rams are the varsity sports teams for Fordham University.Their colors are maroon and white. Fordham Baldies is on Facebook. They made us have a big meeting in Junior High School 73. But like I said, yeah, the cops beat your ass. Its even like that now. However, in this case below, the violence was actually with another white gang called the Fordham Baldies. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. So I ran down the block, and theres a restaurant there, still exists to this day, and I went into the restaurant because I knew the owner. The Woodside Chiefs, of whom I was a member were not a gang. You were whacked out of your face. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. 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. 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. I never robbed anybody. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! We went for the cheap wine. At about 4:55 p.m. after asking around where the Baldies hung out, the Red Wings rolled up on Piggys Candy store, double parking in front. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. 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. THE 5TH (EAST,TREMONT AND MAPES AVE.) area in the 1970's: THE BLACK SPADES, PEACE MAKERS, HARLEM TURKS, 7 IMMORTALS, P.O.W.E.R. To make a zip gun you buy a cap gun. Then, in a way that only the Internet can make happen, I received an email from another nephew of Ernests who was actually able to find Ernests unborn son at the time (when Ernest was killed he was married with a boy and his wife was 7 months pregnant with another son on the way). areas at 8 PM. Its something you die for, like a flag. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. 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. It was a crazy neighborhood. When this second son was born, Ernests widow moved to California leaving everyone and everything behind. I dont want to glorify it, because for todays youth theres nothing to glorify in gangs, but back then it was what we did to survive. That was the year when it started getting real serious. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. If you walked by somebodys block, they would chase you, shoot at you, and beat you down if they caught you. You have it all. These were all pretty much in the same area and were all converted store fronts with bars. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. Caleo took another bullet just about the left buttock, near his belt line. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. That was our block, so we had to protect everybody from other people who would come in and mess up the block. A lot of guys got hurt, and a couple a guys got hurt really bad. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. It went right through his forearm. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. Wed have sticks, bats, clubs, and bottles, and wed just beat the heck out of each other until the cops came or until we got tired of it. It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. Mario was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. We had a building on the Southside that we painted up with Free Sonny Barger. He was the Hells Angels national president who was locked up at the time. 42nd Street was like Mecca, where all the gangs would hang out on Friday night. 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. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. We sold it right on the street. And then he died. at the Astoria Houses at 27th Ave. Patrol cars screamed into both We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? We were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. We had fun. I think snuff is much worse than cocaine. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. I could make up to $20. The guys and I would go and take it and strip the parts off and hed get his insurance. The bullets were just whizzing by my ear. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. You get high. It would scare people. Me and a couple friends of mine went to a hooker. Everybody wants to make a name for themselves, a reputation. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. I heard that he was like that because his mother was killed. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. What they had at that time was called the Youth Squad. Baldies didn't shave their heads and in reality wore Ducks Ass hairdoos like The Fonz and were named after bald eagles? I doubt anyone walking down the street knew that in 1954 Ernest was killed and Bernard and Angelo were severely injured in a gang war. 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. When the pill came, everything changed. Just passing through. He got killed a few years later. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Astoria. It got to a point where a gang called the Fordham Baldieswho were like the biggest Italian gang in the Bronxheard about us and came down and made us a brother club. 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. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. That was my opportunity. NYC Youth Gangs - 1950s. We never really had any problem with the Hasidics. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. I didnt do that. 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. Usually it was chains or sticks; knives and zip guns occasionally. This was 1960 through 1962. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. True, that could be any college. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. We would let him go because he was with his girl. 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." hairstyle later made famous by . The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. You had to have respect. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. He was invincible. Back then, Id get up in the morning, 7:30 or so, go stand on the corner by the train station, and ask for quarters. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. We went down one night, had a fight with them, and Ill never forget it: We chased them all the way down Evergreen Avenue, and all of a sudden about 60 or 70 of them came out of a house. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. They had high collars, buttoned down, and on the back you had RR. But we didnt really go out of our way too much with the sweaters and the costumes. 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. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. He must have had a vest, cause let me tell you, this guy had fucking balls. In the 60s, the Puerto Ricans and blacks were coming in like there was no tomorrow. From the east side, are He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. I never believed in that, so I never did it. We had a gang that started in high school. Like I remember coming home and having my sister-in-law crying, and I would walk in the house and make believe I didnt know why. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. Overdosed, stuff like that. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. And I tell you, that was a fuckin fight. Everybody kept their eyes open. That happened a lot. Big car, big wallet, and next thing you know theyre doing fifty years in jail. All the gangs recognized and even esteemed one another showing respect. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. 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". Not every club was friendly. 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. Egyptian Dragons". If youre in my club, I take you at face value. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. 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. Everybody knew who we were. Search . I got in, it was dark, and then when I put on the light all I saw was coffins, so I ran out. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. They were going back to the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. That was it. Both Frank and Vincent were packing fully loaded automatic pistols. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. The battle lines between opposing armies had already Even some of the names used are real. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in Wrong place, wrong time. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. Nobody would fuck with us. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. I mean, I know I never did it. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. So thats how it happened. I was with him for 24 years, so I was a real part of it. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. The Wanderers (1979) - The Fordham Baldies MOV Clips 31.8K subscribers Subscribe 178 25K views 2 years ago American comedy-drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Ken Wahl,. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. They punctured his lung and he almost died. I had a very bad temper back then. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two Wed drink winewere talking now maybe one oclock in the afternoon. Somebody else could come and rob your mother and you wouldnt like it. So our style of dress and everything was like them. In fact, we protected people. And to make it more interesting, this gang fight happened far from East Harlem it happened in the Bronx in Baldies turf at 189th Street and Belmont Ave. Yeah, it was nice. And that would touch it off right away, because theyd start yelling back at us, and before you knew it, wed be running down on the railroad tracks, theyd be running up. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. At its centre is Italian-American kid Richie (Ken Wahl) who is one of. 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. This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. We were big wine drinkers. The 70s was real nice. If it aint from close range, you just have to wait for the pellets to come out later. They The quarterback of the Lynvettes, Thomas "Tommy" Wall, a Woodsider and former Chief QB said about the Chiefs "in the off season we were a gang." It was an opportunistic thing. Here's the spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FJNuMjFZHeQKJXR0DlmzX?si=RjpC0Rx4SpWB7sXFlct-Qg\u0026utm_source=copy-link\u0026dl_branch=1\u0026nd=1 But they looked at us and they said, It was Alicat So it was Alicat. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. Then you were on file. 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. By the way, there were always fights yet it was all handled with reverence, one on one. The balcony on 204th and the 'tunnels', and the whole area surrounding Twin Lakes was our turf! "When they were shooting the recruiting scene with the Fordham Baldies," Price recalled, "the actors were hanging out on the intersection of the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road right by Alexander's Department Store and Loew's Paradise, this massive Moorish movie palace. A lot of my buddies went in. had zip-guns. Anyway, we werent vicious kids. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? It could be that she had sex with one of the girls guys, it could be that she was just wanting to have sex with one of the girls guys, or she could have just been from another club. It took a lot of people out. 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 could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. I've watched the movie The Wanderers each time it's been on, and still get a kick out of how the Ducky gang was supposed to be represented. Often it was handled one on? Everything started out with sweaters. But as things started to change and people started with the drugs, making money off of it, a lot of violence erupted. 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. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. I got locked up in 80 and came out in 83. He was from the Marcy Projects and he would always come down with a gun. Theyd hang around. 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. It doesnt get any worse than that. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. Rivals: Allerton Avenue gang, Parkside gang, and the Wanderers gang. First, we need to find some places that we could link to this page, so it gets some visibility. That wasnt allowed in that neighborhood because that old lady may be some big shot gangsters relative. The two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. I never shot up. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. 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. They didnt like me too much. (3) Police busted up a potential rumble and arrested some Gowanus Take on the world. I went over to the South 9th Bikers in early 1980, the same year I went to jail. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. Us, the Chaplains, and the Spanish guys all got together and they gave us an ultimatum: Either we made peace or we were gonna start going to jail. A 25 year-old hanger- You go to parties and see a lot of the same faces. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. --rocketrye12 talk/contribs 03:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I moved it to Bronx gangs (mid-twentieth century), please mind your capitalization. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. Any gear you could put on, no matter how hot or cold it was, you went to 42nd and wore your colors proudly. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. We were so fuckin' broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. There were six of them and two of us. 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. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). The '50s and '60's were a time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and prestige. Naturally, there were a lot of shot-up people. Before we started getting high on dope, we were sniffing glue. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. Our program is free and empowers youth to champion mental health advocacy and awareness with their peers. It was like one big family. So this guy started going off with everybody. The Spanish guys were different. There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. I was satisfied with sniffing. You usually carried a knife, something to protect you. They werent really that strong of a weapon. 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. You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. 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 went to Our Lady of Lourdes Grammar School on Aberdeen Street. At that time I was doing a lot of harm to the Dukes, and the cops figured, lets get him off the streets. I mean, these girls could fight. Rumors often swept Bronx high schools in the 1950s and 1960s that "the Baldies were coming" to confront the student body, at the generally docile Bronx High School of Science and the more macho, all-male DeWitt Clinton High School. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. Thats how I used to get my money. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. Everybody knew who was who. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. A lot of them I met through fighting with them. When I stepped off the train, I saw all these abandoned buildings, and every night there were the sirens of the fire trucks, and people being displaced, crying, no place to go. Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. We didnt even have to do anything. If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. All except the sadistic Ducky Boys who seem to suddenly materialize at the opportune moment, are more like social clubs and do little besides partying and hanging out. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . Wasnt too much of a fight. I lived on Fulton and Rockaway, which was home to another crew, the Fulton and Rockaway Boys. That was when the neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Italian. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. Or cite a source, of course. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. So it worked both ways. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. I gave her two bucks and I came in about two seconds, then went home and jerked off ten times thinking about it. Some of the cops knew us too. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. If you want to have a "See also" section where wiki articles on bklyn etc gang-related movies, etc are handled, I guess you could, but I didn't particularly feel the need so I didn't. 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. You wanted to teach him a lesson. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. Wed be going across the Williamsburg Bridge, shooting at them, them shooting at us. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. He died in a tragic fuckin condition. I left it, but recommend changing that line. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. We were like, Nah, dont fuck with them. One time, something had happened so I went looking for this guy to get him. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Dukes, as they were waiting for the "Chaplins" (Chaplains) to arrive. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. 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. 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. 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 bond between people who were in gangs was amazing. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. 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. 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