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Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. They were like, Whos the president? and a couple of guys went over, and we had this truce. It made his brain all fucked-up. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. Puerto Ricans were moving into East Harlem at greater rates as the 1950s progressed. 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. They werent pussies. Little by little the white gang broke up. It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. 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. Lots of guys were fucking up, but all I wanted was to have our club, and for everybody to have bikes and go places together and ride. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. It was a sanctuary, this rectangle here. I never robbed anybody. Because if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you took an ass whupping. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. We spent a couple nights in jail. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. They didnt look like they bathed. And nobody could fuck with that. Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. Astoria. Everybody wants to make a name for themselves, a reputation. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. 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. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. 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. They thought I had control over their leader. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. 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 used to walk around with a gun every day. In 1957, the Viceroys stabbed and killed an Enchanter. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. We used to make choppers with four- and six-polesextensions, you know? Lot of guys went to jail. Richard Price lived in Parkside Projects and hung out with a different crowd then us. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. The Fordham Baldies were one of the gangs featured in the movie "The Wanderer". SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. Our "uniform" was teal bowling shirts with black velvet vertical stripes. At the same time, Henry remembers . So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. It was like a game. 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. Because we were like brothers. Tvoz | talk 06:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I agree with and understand all the changes. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. This was our life. After that it was acidPurple Haze. Who was I supposed to hang out with? Thats when we were first coming up. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. It doesnt get any worse than that. We all got along. It was an opportunistic thing. From time to time, wed bump into them and theyd make fun of us like, Hey, we got your park. You have every type of person in every club. There was a lot of acrimony between the Red Wings and Puerto Rican gangs from East Harlem like the Dragons and Viceroys. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. The Jewish part of East Harlem was mostly west of 2nd Avenue. Basically, the Dirty Ones was the only gang that was friendly with us. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. It wasnt like the guy on the corner was a doctor, the one across the street was a lawyer. That wasnt allowed in that neighborhood because that old lady may be some big shot gangsters relative. 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 . down on them. Me and a couple friends of mine went to a hooker. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. 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. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. Homicide Dozen, The Hustlers, The Web, El Kavons, Cobras, and The Murder Junkies. We were never really into robbing people. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . 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. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. The last thing we wanted was heat on the block. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. I never shot up. It made more money. They were going back to the Bronx to pay the Baldies a visit they would never forget. There were real gangsters around too. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. In Williamsburg, where we were, it was the Majestics, the Dukes, the Unknown Bikers, South 9 Bikers, Spanish Kings, Devil Rebels, Dirty Ones, and a bunch more. 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. "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. I went into the service in 66. He died in a tragic fuckin condition. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. I could make up to $20. Side Story. It went right through his forearm. We burned fires in the tunnels in the winter to stay warm, and we went swimming in the Bronx river when it was hot. DiVincenzos elbow took another bullet, which passed through his arm. I guess some guys, you know, went with them. We gotta watch our back. Youd bring a girl with you so she could hold the gun. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. Lost Boys of the Bronx: An Oral History of the Ducky Boys By James Hannon. But thats the way they did it in those days. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. Then you were on file. hairstyle later made famous by Fonzie from Happy Days. They didnt like me too much. This page is not available in other languages. We could see them from the hill. 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. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. The Viceroys were a Puerto Rican gang from 103rd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. It was easier to sell. Wed hang out in the park at night. A loosely organized street gang with fewer than 60 members and a name inspired by a cartoon has taken on near-mythical status among high school students in New York City, the police and school. Fordham Baldies: As their name suggests, they are all bald, reportedly to prevent their hair from getting in their eyes during a fight. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. It was about territory. It was just fighting all the time. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). His father was a building super. Some of the cops knew us too. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. No matter where you went, even the toughest gangsfuckin Puerto Ricans, blacks, whateverthey wouldnt fuck with us. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. However, when they got there, the Fordham Baldies who had been frequenting Orchard Beach on a regular basis, found out the Red Wings were hanging out on Section 17 of the beach. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. 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? Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. 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. Everybody fights to kill. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. Everybody knew who we were. Dion, whose last name is DiMucci, had been a member of the Bronx, New York street gang the Fordham Baldies when he joined musical forces with Carlo Mastrangelo, Freddy Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo, who were part of a rival gang, the Imperial Hoods. So thats how it happened. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. Usually it was chains or sticks; knives and zip guns occasionally. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. And the drugs? Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. About a month later, when he got out of the hospital, they invaded us again. After 1940, the Jewish population faded and their diaspora paved the way for the hispanics to settle there. After a few of them you could do anything. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. Bucks, the Gents and the Garrisons gangs. 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. I was first in a gang when I lived in East Harlem. Heroin was a big thing in the 60s. 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. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. You lived in one building, and the buildings to your left and right were abandoned, because they were gutted out by fires. Sometimes. I lost my virginity at like 14. If somebody says, Oh, let me see your colors, turn around, its not something you do. This was 1960 through 1962. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. Theyd hang around. If two women came into a bar, they never paid for a drink and nobody even went over to talk to them. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? Like 12 or 13. We went to Our Lady of Lourdes Grammar School on Aberdeen Street. In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety.. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. They were called the Flaming Satans. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. This is my hood. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. 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. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. 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. 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. We were in the papers more than the president. 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! Indeed, I started this at someone else's suggestion, with the understanding that s/he would pick up from there. One of us would move out of a place, and ten families would move in. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. The Brooklyn clubs were OK, but the clubs from the Bronx and Queensthe Savage Skulls, the Nomadsthey could cause some problems. The gangs started separating. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. 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. Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. You come running through the building with the cops after you and you could run into any door. They still have them down there, these buildings where the cellars have all these different rooms. We were fighting with everybody. Someone please remove this, its a rap music term. "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. 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 how the whole biker thing came about first. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. I also belonged to a gang from Mount Vernon, a somewhat more serious group. Today, thats what the gangs call itthe Bloods, the Crips, all of them, they call it flagging: I die for my flag. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. Wed drink winewere talking now maybe one oclock in the afternoon. You just couldnt believe it. Teenage Gangs Kill One, Injure Six: one shot and killed, one stabbed, and four beaten in a gang fight We went to the same school and we were all young. That was a typical day. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. It was because of who you were. People started making money on their own and they forgot about their buddies. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. There were six of them and two of us. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. People from the neighborhood never called the cops on us because we were never troublemakers. Everybody knew who was who. In fact, you dont turn around for anybody either. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. They help people out. The Spanish guys were different. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. 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 . You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) 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 were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. And we used to ride over to East 3rd in Manhattan, to the Hells Angels, and visit with them and whatnot. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. Everything started out with sweaters. Unknown Bikers were just big in Williamsburg, South 9 Bikers the same. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. It also made us brother clubs with the Redwings, who were in East Harlem. 42nd Street was like a neutral area, unless you ran into clubs from different boroughs. So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. 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. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. He was invincible. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. Big car, big wallet, and next thing you know theyre doing fifty years in jail. All the gangs were there: The Sportsmen, that was a big black gang, pretty tough guys, and the Dragons, that was the Puerto Rican gang. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. 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. 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. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). This guys sister might be living with that guys brother, or you might have a kid with that guys sister. If anything, wed protect them. I used to steal a lot from factories. 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. He got killed a few years later. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. In fact, we protected people. Thats the way the neighborhood was. Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. The ones that didnt go in are the ones that died along the way. Before that, date rape was the usual. We had colorsblue sweaters. Just passing through. That was the end of him. Some people were robbing other gangs for their drugs. They were like, "Who's the. Now, everybody else has a bike. I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. I removed the references to Brooklyn gangs in popular culture - does not make any sense to have them there - this article is not about Brooklyn. It was something for show. Its something you die for, like a flag. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. Before the pill, you mostly just had blowjobs. I was with him for 24 years, so I was a real part of it. It happened on a fateful late spring day in 1954. There was hookers toohookers is what we mostly fucked. Thats when we started realizing that we had lost the numbers. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. *Click on Fullscreen to see the full trial minutes*. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. If they caught you, you were going to get an ass whuppin. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. Jumping back in Giampettruzzis Cadillac, the five Red Wings headed back to Orchard Beach. The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. And they wouldnt flip colors. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. We were just crooks, you know what I mean? There were like 20 of us. 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. The biggest place we would go was the Starship. But I never did. A lot of my buddies went in. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. 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 - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. But that was once in a while, you know? I never wore colors. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. I mean, these girls could fight. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. Italians were Italians in those days. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. What they had at that time was called the Youth Squad. It was a two-way thing. And then it got built up even more. 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