I carried a .25, then later a 9 mm. Violence back then, if you put it on a scale, Id say it was about a seven. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). When they got back to East Harlem, they dropped off Hall, Bella and DePetris, but picked up two new Red Wings, Frank Ciappetta and Vincent Gugliemelli. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. 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 was like one big family. Right now, the Majestics is a motorcycle club. Basically the territory was divided by the Bronx River that ran through the park. Im 50 now, and I havent been back. Everybody else had to shoot, because we already were. Id get up, go to my friends house at eight in the morning, and knock on his door. 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. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? Everything started out with sweaters. Big car, big wallet, and next thing you know theyre doing fifty years in jail. Its even like that now. They werent allowed to date outside girls. From the sweaters we went to a shirt, and from the shirt we finally got to patches. And nobody could fuck with that. Everyone pleaded not-guilty and a trial proceeded the following year in April 1955. People from the neighborhood never called the cops on us because we were never troublemakers. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. 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. This page is not available in other languages. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. (1) The Harlem Redwings did a "drive-by" on the Fordham Baldies, on A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. bayonets, brass knuckles, and garrison belts before officers swoop I remember a particular time when a group of us girls had a rumble with a gang called the Seven Immortals. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. He got killed a few years later. We went up there and basically we started hanging out and we became the Railroad Boys. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. 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. There were six of them and two of us. SM28, Mount Carmel Candy Store Home of the Best New York Egg Creams. They help people out. 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. 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. And then it got built up even more. 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. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. That was right before the Kennedy assassination. Then you tie the hammer up with rubber bands, pull it back, and let it go. By the time Henry and Stephanie reached junior high school, gangs were becoming an issue, particularly the Fordham Baldies. They punctured his lung and he almost died. Our big thing was buying cough medicine. Its like a family, or the police department, or the priesthood. 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. I got my head split open with a piano leg one night too. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. That was it. I saw him on the corner at South 10th and Bedford, and I started shooting. I snorted it, sometimes I shot it, but not often. Or cite a source, of course. There were like 20 of us. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. Egyptian Dragons". The '50s and '60's were a time when loyalty actually meant esteem, consequence, and prestige. We got your neighborhood. And wed turn around and say, Yeah, yeah, you got so much. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. They fought on the handball court with no shoes on. A Retired member described the Duckies, a gang featured in the Movie "The Wanderer": "The Ducky Gang (not just boys) lol. In the summer we were always out there, like 15 or 20 of us, sitting on the steps in summer, drinking beer, and bullshitting. What used to happen was, wed hang out at someones apartment, but then theyd move out. He couldnt show up to collect his rent. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. 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. I lost my virginity at like 14. 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. I was like, What the hell is this? Then, slowly but surely, I started to gravitate towards them. Thats how the whole biker thing came about first. 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. 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. 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. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. They were a big crewwhite gang, mostly Italian. Department Chair: Dr. Ipsita Banerjee (JMH 642) Associate Chair: Dr. Joshua Schrier (JMH 616) Administrator: Adriana Magnotta (JMH 642) Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D. You get high. In 1959, a member of the Dragons was killed in a fight with the Viceroys. Big deal.. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. Then you were on file. The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. You have your murderers, your rapists, your thieves. Back then, gang-wise, there werent too many guns used. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. Pichon, President of the original Latin Kings of Highbridge Park, '63, currently living in the West Coast. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. I think I was under that car for half an hour, until I heard my guys yelling my name. 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. The guys in the restaurants were cool with us, and in return, we took care of them. Oh yeah, and if you went down on a girl then, you couldnt walk around the neighborhood afterward. Later on we had a clubhouse where wed hang out all the time. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. So it worked both ways. If you want to see somebodys colors, you walk around the back and look at them. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. Over the course of one or two summers, they outnumbered us. They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. I think Frankie got the best of him, and they got back in the cars, and Frankie chased him. If you want to talk about family members alone, Ive lost five. This was not the end of the Red Wings gang, however. From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. Second, I want to expand the introduction. Nobody fights to hurt anymore. Nobody would fuck with us. But thats the way they did it in those days. That was my opportunity. It was because of who you were. 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 . He lived like that for a long time. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. In 1957, the Viceroys stabbed and killed an Enchanter. But down in Chinatown, you could buy a tin of cocaine snuff for 25 cents. Thats where the money was. Chair (JMH 642) Bionanotechnology, Biochemistry, and Nanomedicine. Eventually everybody said, Were not going to dance no more. There was nothing you could do about it. Plus, if you had a leather jacket on and I shot you, chances are the bullet wouldnt even go through the jacket. Thats all I ever wanted to do. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. Astoria. There was one Irish kid, I think, and one black kid. That was all tongue in cheek. There were no real initiations. Theres still a lot of people around. 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. That was like Jersey to me, Avenue D. And the drugs? You go to parties and see a lot of the same faces. He was so fuckin mad he didnt pay attention, and the guy went around the corner and when Frankie came after him, he was waiting, and hit him with a two-by-fourwhamright across the head. We did most of our dirty business on the railroad tracks, so we got the name The Railroad Boys. I think I shot two or three times with my .25 before it jammed. A lot of shit went on. You have every type of person in every club. When I lived in the Bronx, prior to 1953 - there was a gang called the Fordham Daggers. So a lot of guys ODd. Sometimes. I think he got arrested. THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Main Navigation Menu. I got locked up with another friend of mine. We were coming down Freeman Street to the club, and they started calling us out. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. He might have been black, he might have been Puerto Rican, and then that was it, the shit started. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. We were always armed. Did it help? At that time I was doing a lot of harm to the Dukes, and the cops figured, lets get him off the streets. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. He left behind a wife and child. We were able to do that, whereas the newcomers werent. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. But it isnt like we were setting out to take over the building. If you looked down the hill toward Evergreen Avenue, there was a schoolyard, and thats where all the black kids used to hang out. Why you crying? You know whyyou shot my brother. It was crazy. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. Lost Boys of the Bronx: An Oral History of the Ducky Boys By James Hannon. Wed hang out in the park at night. Wake him up, hustle. This is how I remember it because I was raised in El Barrio and in Washington Heights from the early 50s and 60s. Mary Hamilton (l. 14). You just couldnt believe it. They yell one word in Yiddish, and everybody comes out the woodwork. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the We were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. A lot of times, people would come back all beat up and bruised. Its cheaper than coke, and you get whacked on it. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. Your chances of going to jail were even worse. 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. Thats how I used to get my money. Rainy days, wed be inside watching TV. 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! They were a very big club. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. Go home. They said, Why should I buy drugs to sell when I can steal his and sell them? It happened all the time. 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. They were knife-happy. If anyone stepped in, (stepped out of turn) he was accounted for verbally and brutally. One guys father was a hunter, and he went on vacation. His mind was OK, but hed be talking and hed start laughing cause he couldnt help it. Dusty Vision TV on Facebook and IG Hit the subscribe and notification (bell) button!BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Wanderers Ducky Boys Lost Boys of The Bronx James HannonI dont not own the rights to any music in this videoDusty Vision TV Instagram: Dusty Vision TVFacebook: Dusty Vision TVIf you would like to be a guest on my program please email me at dustyangeloddcast@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram \"Dusty Vision TV\"Check out my other youtube channel \"Dusty Vision Radio\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCpoV0wVvjtGQN5ijpjGKACheck out my music. One group gathered at PS 171 at 30th Ave and 14th Street, the other The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. Meanwhile, a local gang, the Fordham Baldies, menacing blacks and Hispanics in Roosevelt's vicinity, kept enrollment overwhelmingly white. down on them. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. I was first in a gang when I lived in East Harlem. Or wed buy a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser, a quart of Ballantine, sit up on the hill and drink that. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. If you made someone look bad, theyd wanna retaliate. The official 2023 Women's Volleyball Roster for the Fordham University Rams This let anyone down in the park know you were coming. They gave you your JD card, which means juvenile delinquent, so that was the label you carried, you know what I mean? Thats the way the neighborhood was. Who was I supposed to hang out with? Indeed, I started this at someone else's suggestion, with the understanding that s/he would pick up from there. It was a gangster neighborhood. But that was once in a while, you know? So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. It was like a game. He was invincible. Little by little the white gang broke up. I would buy it from Italian guys over on Avenue D, but not guys that we actually knew. I gave her two bucks and I came in about two seconds, then went home and jerked off ten times thinking about it. Prostitution was everywhere too. When we were on Lee Avenue there was this black guy. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. They didnt have to worry about getting robbed or nothing on the block. I didnt do that. For about ten minutes the two groups faced off against each other, calling each other names, threatening each other, and in the Baldies case, jeering Bella. Mostly it was breaking into factories in Brooklyn. That was a typical day. Our gang was the wiseguys, you know what I mean? For more information on the Baldies, please visit James Hannons website, Lantern-Media where he shares some of his research on the Fordham Baldies as well as another period gang called the Duckys. In the case I am talking about here, there are no school rumours about a Baldie invasion. It was a crazy neighborhood. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. The Ducky was not predominantly irish or anything else, but yes, we were certainly a 'large' group. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. I also had to fight some of the guys in the club. One of the bullets hit Montuoro, hitting him in the aorta, killing him. The 70s was real nice. 1954 Red Wings & Fordham Baldies The Red Wings were a well-known and powerful Italian gang situated in East Harlem. By the way, there were always fights yet it was all handled with reverence, one on one. I never wore colors. I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. DiVincenzo and Caleo were both members of the Baldies but had no criminal record. Can't remember all their name and only some of their last names. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. The landlord wasnt going to come and tell us we couldnt do itwed kick his fuckin ass. Our "uniform" was teal bowling shirts with black velvet vertical stripes. Take on the world. I buried three of my brothers because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the ghetto. It was just fighting all the time. Girls drank free. It was a black guy who did it to him, in a fight over a girl. 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. 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. You were whacked out of your face. 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. The son made it seem like it was a burglary, and we made off with all his weapons. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. Next thing you knew, youd be fighting. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. I left it, but recommend changing that line. One of us would move out of a place, and ten families would move in. That means turn your jacket around or take it off. They gave my brother a summons, and I stood in jail for a decade and change. So that kind of shit won over a lot of the tenants. Caleo took another bullet just about the left buttock, near his belt line. People hustled their money. His father was a building super. You came, you hung out, you drank a bottle of wine, you went crazy like everybody else. The battle lines between opposing armies had already Hustle to get money for breakfast, eat, get high. Not many fights broke out there. 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. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. Belmont Avenue, near East 189th Street. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. They were called the Flaming Satans. 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. I never did, but I know there were guys in the gang that did. Dukes, as they were waiting for the "Chaplins" (Chaplains) to arrive. 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. He got hit in the head with a two-by-four, and it numbed him. People were sniffing glue, so the bodegas began to sell glue because it was so popular. Tully High School seniors Richie, Joey and Perry run with a gang called The Wanderers in the Bronx. There were some crazy kids, though. You went home, you needed a couple of stitches, you know, you went to the neighborhood drugstore, you got butterfly stitches. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. It took a lot of people out. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. I guess I was lucky. Not embarrassed to say I was a member and yes, they were very real. Then he became the President of the Majestics. Jun.1, 1954 - Several Members of the Red Wings' gang from East Harlem drove to Fordham Baldies turf in the Bronx and shoot dead Ernest Montuoro after being insulted in a fracas at Orchard Beach. Id be there for a few hours. Many of us had guns, although I never knew of any used in a fight. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. Unless this was a separate incident, the gang was not the Redwings, but the Sinners. You have it all. There would be a fight set up, and we told you to be there at seven oclock. Premieres in 64 minutes February 20 at 4:30 PM BRONX GANGS Of The 1960s - FORDHAM BALDIES Dusty Vision TV - DVTV 36.5K subscribers Subscribe 0 1 waiting Premieres Feb 20, 2023 Dusty Vision TV on. And I tell you, it was a great fuckin scam. We spent a night one time stripping a whole car completely down to the chassis. 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. Sometimes people got hit by cars. Mario was Ernests brother but passed away a couple of days prior to his son emailing me in March 2012. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. You showed up at the park at seven and we walked down Bushwick Avenue and wed do what we had to do. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. Hell no. 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 . After a few of them you could do anything. But there were girls where I had to kick their ass. 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. 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. 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. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. 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. 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. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. But I stole. I got in, it was dark, and then when I put on the light all I saw was coffins, so I ran out. Often it was handled one on? Wed be going across the Williamsburg Bridge, shooting at them, them shooting at us. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. During this time, both began to listen to rock and roll and go to dances on Friday Night. He must have had a vest, cause let me tell you, this guy had fucking balls. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. I used to hide sometimes on the corner and wait for him, just hoping to get him. If we had a problem between us, wed all go meet over at City Hall and wear different color bandanas so people knew where you were from. 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). Baseball Baseball: Facebook Baseball: Twitter Baseball: Instagram Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Facebook Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: Twitter Cross . If you had war with somebody, then you could walk around their block wearing your colors, trying to be funny. All the gangs recognized and even esteemed one another showing respect. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! When I moved to the Bronx, I saw guys with long hair, cut sleeves, kneepads, and motorcycle boots. The Majestics started in the early 70s. I never shot up. Factories close up at night, you break in, get what you want, and sell it. The Dukes were on Roebling and South 3rd, over to South 1st. True, that could be any college. The last thing we wanted was heat on the block. That happened a lot. So wed form a line, walk right down and stop. 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 If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. Robert Beer, Ph.D. (JMH 634) 71.184.65.20 (talk) 19:53, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply], That can't possibly be a real gang. Who the hell knows whats in your brain? The memories are all roughly the same, or close to it. When we were done I carried him up four flights of stairs on my shoulders to his house, stoned out of my head. We spent a couple nights in jail. The only time I ever went to the hospital was the first time I got shot, because I didnt know what to expect. And they wouldnt flip colors. Puerto Ricans were moving into East Harlem at greater rates as the 1950s progressed. Their leader is Terror, a 6'6", 400-pound monster of a man. 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." They didnt like me too much. It wasnt about, This is where were hanging out, anymore. If you remember the scene where they tied a rope to the penises of two guys on a bridge and threw a cinder block over the side down to the a river, that was the Bronx River near French Charlie's baseball field. This time it was a Red Wings invasion. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. 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. He got stitched up, and we hung out and got high afterward. We were always there. By todays standards, there would have been a lot more lawsuits. Houston Street down to Canal, and Bowery over to Lafayette. The South 9th Bikers turf was around Broadway, from like where the BQE starts at Havemeyer to what was called Jew Town, where the Hasidics start. In fact, sometimes the girls would rumble with other clubs without the guys knowing. 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. The Woodside Chiefs were a Pop Warner, multi-division, football team from 1955 thru 1965. The Red Wings with Frank that June 1 were John Hall, Louis DePetris, Philip Bonnano, Jerry Santaniello and a girl only known as Bella. 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