They looked at both of us, and I was a little relieved because I said to myself, well, they really was there, so Im gonna walk. You know, if somebody needed to get high, you made sure they got high; if someone got locked up, you make sure when they got out, you threw a party. FInally, since when was DeWitt Clinton "docile"??? Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. I caught a few. We didnt even have to do anything. Thats the bottom line. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on By the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies. They werent very accurate, either. 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. Finally the Youth Squadthe special police squad they set up just to deal with the gang problemgot involved. That was my opportunity. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. The year given is the year of the film's release or first season of the series. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. Originating in the late 1940s, the Red Wings appeared on the record until at least 1959. When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. 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 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. Wake him up, hustle. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. We were just crooks, you know what I mean? I guess some guys, you know, went with them. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. When he died, my brother Carlos took over. There were no drugs then. A couple times, wed take somebody down there and leave em, maybe tied up, and he had to get out by himself. I got stabbed in the head one day with an umbrella. When the pill came, everything changed. 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. (3) Police busted up a potential rumble and arrested some Gowanus About Us Site Map Contact Us Great American Youth Book Lords Of Kilbourn Book, Greaser Magazine: "Rising Up Angry:" Stone Greaser Grapevine, Debbie Kozlarek/Carolyn Vandermolen Murders, The Teddy Girls Gang - Great Britain 1950s, Mighty Zulu Nation, Universal Zulu Nation Gang history, Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War, SBB Garfield Boys verses Red Hook Tigers article, Brass Knuckle Tales 50's Street Gang Looks Back, Jimmy the Gent Burke Rest in Peace Article, Harlem Red Wings/Northmen Street Gang article. 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,. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. And nobody could fuck with that. A lot of shit went on. Heroin was the drug of choice. You know, you pull it out or you just display it, and people say, OK, were not gonna mess around. Most of the time when you would shoot, you did it not to hurt somebody, but to scare them. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. Nobody fights to hurt anymore. I never shot up. 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. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. This was our life. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. Mostly we drank wine. We all got along. Police break up gang rumble in the making on a Saturday night in Everybody knew who we were. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. Often it was handled one on? You lived in one building, and the buildings to your left and right were abandoned, because they were gutted out by fires. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. I wasnt hit too often. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. 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). It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. We used to wrap the gun up with a lot of tape, because those things had a tendency to blow up in your hands. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. In football, the Rams play in the Patriot League of NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. There were no real initiations. Theres still a lot of people around. The Woodside Chiefs, teenage boys, were self funded. They were like, Oh, its not bad. That was when the Bronx was burning. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. I knew so many people that everybody would open their doors for me. Now they were even stronger, hardened by. of the day,' black leather jackets dungarees and boots. The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. In the summer we were always out there, like 15 or 20 of us, sitting on the steps in summer, drinking beer, and bullshitting. One of our guys got stabbed 20 times by the Flaming Satans. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. Wed drink Night Train. Third, some more trivia. When I was in Spanish Harlem, the guys in gangs wore silk jackets with their name on the front and the club name on the back. 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. Wed hang out in the park at night. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. By the time I started with the Unknowns, I already had a little reputation. Bellagio99 20:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. 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. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two 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. Ill be honest with you, the Spanish guys had a little more guts than the black guys. Now all girls think giving a blowjob is nothing. Everybody knew who was who. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. It was just fighting all the time. Even today, in 2012, the Fordham Baldies still bring memories to many people I have talked to. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. You just couldnt believe it. 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. You get high. 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. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. We never went crazy in our neighborhood, and whoever did, they would hear about it from us the next day. It could more than double in size at that point. You wanted to teach him a lesson. In the back of the park there was a cemetery, and in the cemetery there was a hill. Was a wild time growing up, some bad, some good, but many learning experiences came from those times. Ducking from shootouts and things like that. 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. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. It was like 50 cents a bottle. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. In the 60s, the Puerto Ricans and blacks were coming in like there was no tomorrow. 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. We were always armed. Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. We had a buyer for every piecenot even from garages. Stripping you means taking your jacket by force. We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. Not in my memory! 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. 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. I left my mothers house when I was 14. Life magazine ran a big story on us. 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. Both Frank and Vincent were packing fully loaded automatic pistols. These are the people that we grew up with. The 70s was real nice. However, in this case below, the violence was actually with another white gang called the Fordham Baldies. That wasnt allowed in that neighborhood because that old lady may be some big shot gangsters relative. But I stole. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. Fourth, sources.I will be doing some more research and adding much more information. 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 . Hispanics and Blacks were just coming into prominence in the late 50's. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. Such rumors would often bring along a large police presence, and long disruptions. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. On the next block, one block past Bushwick Avenue, was Aberdeen Park. When I was growing up, stealing old ladies pocketbooks was the big thing. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. I went into the service in 66. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. There were some crazy kids, though. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. We sold it right on the street. I buried three of my brothers because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the ghetto. 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. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. From the Jewish girls mostly, not from Catholic girlsnot when I was a kid. Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. Me and him got along because there was no competition and we really loved each other. Chapter leaders, members, and advisors will be part of the Active Minds Chapter Network upon activation and will . 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 only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. There was nothing you could do about it. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. I never wore colors. I had a very bad temper back then. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. In fact, all three people who were involved in the murder ended up dying within three years of it. It's an in-depth look into the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels gangs from Brooklyn in the 1950s. 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. Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. But it wasnt like they asked us to. at the Astoria Houses at 27th Ave. Patrol cars screamed into both The RailRoad Boys, East New York/Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. All the defendants were found guilty and the shooters Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were sent to prison for twenty years. banerjee@fordham.edu. 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. It took a lot of people out. 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. 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. I left it, but recommend changing that line. So this guy started going off with everybody. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. He lived like that for a long time. 1926), Words gane to the kitchen,And words gane to the ha,That Marie Hamilton gangs wi bairnTo the hichest Stewart of a.Unknown. But you can find where it was filmed on this list. I could make up to $20. When I last saw them, they were street fighters, members of the Fordham Baldies, a gang that made our Little Italy neighborhood unsafe for outsiders. At that time I was doing a lot of harm to the Dukes, and the cops figured, lets get him off the streets. Back then, Washington Heights neighborhood consisted mainly of Irish and Jews. We spent a couple nights in jail. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with Chemistry Faculty. They didnt look like they bathed. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. His father was a building super. We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. They gave my brother a summons, and I stood in jail for a decade and change. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. We were fighting with everybody. They. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Now, everybody else has a bike. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. After 1940, the Jewish population faded and their diaspora paved the way for the hispanics to settle there. You had to have respect. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. All the gangs recognized and even esteemed one another showing respect. 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". Thats all I ever wanted to do. 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 left in Mean Streets temporarily, but I am pretty sure that the Little Italy it depicted was Manhattan's, and therefore it should be out as well. Eventually everybody said, Were not going to dance no more. We werent selling, we were just using. The gangs -- with names such as the Ducky Boys, Del Bombers and Fordham Baldies (who really are bald) -- are racially segregated. They were on the highway, and the guy said something out the window to his girl, and they went back and forth, then finally pulled off the highway up by Bryant Park. It was a gangster neighborhood. Homicide Dozen, The Hustlers, The Web, El Kavons, Cobras, and The Murder Junkies. Nowadays, everybodys got a gun or a knife. It was a black guy who did it to him, in a fight over a girl. In them days, it was no big thing. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. People hustled their money. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. It was two carloads of the fellas, just headed toward the block, coming from Greenpoint. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. 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. I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. Search . "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. Big deal.. Two friends of mine once had to fight at Coney Island because thats where the argument happened. This is my hood. It was easier to sell. And then he died. You stick a car antenna in it and file down the part that you cock backthe hammer. This guy was always strapped. Or if you get hit with a shotgun, forget it. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. I was 12 or 13. Theyd hang around. So it worked both ways. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. And of course, you dont let nobody take your colors. The story is really about our group of friends, our football team and yes, a rival crowd on the other side of Bronx Park. There were a bunch of white gangs fighting each other. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. After a while, if he called the police, then we would be angry at him. Any girl that wasnt a virgin, if you went out with her you couldnt let her get away, because there werent many around. We had no real guns, just the ones that we made, which were a joke. So Id go back to the club, feed myself, feed my man and whoever else was there. So wed take the apartment over. For each institution, films are listed by release date, starting with the most recent. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. He got killed a few years later. If the cops wanted to see who was who, they just had to look there on Friday and Saturday night because everybody wore their patches, all dressed up down to their boots. Click here to order your copy of Brooklyn Rumble today! I told him to open the garbage can, one of those big silver ones, and I went in there, and I told him to put everything on top of me and put the lid on. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. Every time he came by the block there was a shootout, so everybody was always aware when he was passing by. If you want to talk about family members alone, Ive lost five. At the same time, Henry remembers . Here is what Piggys Candy Store looks like today now it appears to be an Islamic school. It was 60 years ago today (October 16th, 1960) that Dion announced his split from the Belmonts.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.The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's . Everybody kept their eyes open. Me and another Unknown Biker were convicted for it. 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. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. 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. 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My kid brother ended up dying. Belmont Avenue, near East 189th Street. They were all afraid of us. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. Wasnt too much of a fight. That was all tongue in cheek. It was like a game. 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. He must have had a vest, cause let me tell you, this guy had fucking balls. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. 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. I remember them strutting their stuff on the boardwalk dressed in black bikini bathing suits with red piping. 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