When we were on Lee Avenue there was this black guy. They werent pussies. That was the year when it started getting real serious. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. In the 60s, the Puerto Ricans and blacks were coming in like there was no tomorrow. It doesnt get any worse than that. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. Clubs may be doing their dirt, but the people on the block aint bitching because they do good for the block. 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? So I think a lot of it had to do with that. If they caught you, you were going to get an ass whuppin. A 25 year-old hanger- 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. Mario felt partially responsible for his brothers death and it was something that troubled him for his entire life. If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. Gang wars were very infrequent and when they did occur hardly ever was there any firearms used. Wed drink Night Train. He was out on the street. You had to have respect. Everyone was ready to enjoy the wind, sun and surf. 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. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. 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. Someone happened to see two of the guys from the Arabian Knights so we pulled over. Montuoro, who was 25, was not in the Baldies but did have a criminal record for assault and robbery in 1947 and possession of a firearm in 1949. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. There were also after school programs Stephanie went to that had a lot of activities for the kids. A lot of the guys would be with their girlfriends. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. 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. I left my mothers house when I was 14. They had some young girls on like Oprah or something who said that. You won. You werent even allowed to kick the guy once he was down. It was all music and sex and everybody getting high. We went for the cheap wine. We just got along. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. I guess I was lucky. 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 two toughest guys would fight it out, and that was how it worked. I lived in abandoned buildings with them. My brother Alex started wearing patches when he was hanging out with this other club, the Dirty Ones. I buried three of my brothers because of being in gangs and being involved in drugs and living in the ghetto. He had hair just like mussolini in real life, and I'm the princess of canada although I can't offically back that up with paperwork. They ran books, they stole, they shylocked money They ran the neighborhood, whatever they did. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. On the west side of Astoria, members came from the They loved us, you know, because they were fags and they loved young kids. Both Frank and Vincent were packing fully loaded automatic pistols. Sometimes people got hit by cars. If you want to talk about family members alone, Ive lost five. I am currently researching these two killings one in 1958 and the other in 1959 and hope to write about them in more detail in the future. 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 . 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. 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. Our drug of choice then was heroin. For each institution, films are listed by release date, starting with the most recent. at a dance between the Lucky Lords and the Counts. Basically the territory was divided by the Bronx River that ran through the park. It took a lot of people out. Each of us bought our own uniforms and equipment and we all chipped in for our bus fees for away games. I mean, we liked to have a good old-fashioned fight and beat the hell outta each other, but we never had no intentions of, Lets go down there and kill a few of em. We all lived in the same neighborhoodthat was another reason why we werent out to kill each other. We had everything sold by sunrise. He didnt have to worry about his building getting messed up, because we wouldnt allow that. All of them met violent deaths. 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. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. Teenage Gangs Kill One, Injure Six: one shot and killed, one stabbed, and four beaten in a gang fight From Spanish Harlem, we moved to the South Bronx. I have very fond memories of all the people I met there. 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,. Forget about iteverywhere you went, every corner, the drugs were there. They wear leather jackets with a skull on the back and "FB" (Fordham Baldies) on the arm. Nobody would fuck with us. I always used to buy magazines just to check out the bikes. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. Side Story. I stayed in there for what seemed like three hours, but it was probably 15 minutes. Or if he was with his mother, we wouldnt say nothing to him. one fistfights and it would be over. We were just crooks, you know what I mean? Everybody knew who we were. Five leather jacket clad Astoria gangs almost mix it up with There were six of them and two of us. Ernests son is now 58 years old and just now found out about his familys history in New York City. the Saracen Lords and the Nobles. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. There were no drugs then. Not many fights broke out there. Even the cops told my mother one time they knew I didnt have nothing to do with it. There were some crazy kids, though. You have to flip your colors. They started getting nasty. 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. We didnt shake nobody down or hurt nobody. That was a typical night. We called ourselves the Capris if you can believe it. There was nothing you could do about it. He suffers from asthma. It made his brain all fucked-up. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. On a warm Saturday night, wed all be up on the hill. They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. Want to go to the college that inspired <i>Animal House</i>? When I did get arrested, my little brothermay he rest in peacehe was involved. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. You get high. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available! The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. 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. We came into a lot of weapons at an early time. On the next block, one block past Bushwick Avenue, was Aberdeen Park. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. Back in the early days, we used to have a habit of snatching their hats. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. She used to be a dispatcher for a car service. 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. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. They had another Italian neighborhood, down on Cherry Street and Madison that was just the same as ours. At our peak, we were only about 100 strong, but the Dirty Ones had chapters in Bay Ridge and the Bronx. 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. So the guys said, If you dont do it, were gonna strip you. And thats where the war began. 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. Everyone had a little more respect in them days. The Baldies, who outnumbered the Red Wings eventually chased them off the beach. The battle lines between opposing armies had already A lot of the guys started moving out of the neighborhood or going off to Vietnam. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. I mean, I could have been arrested for date rape a million times. Wed look down on them and theyd look up at us. I wound up doing like 13 years and change in jail. With us in the building, there was security. You know what beer muscles are, right? Thats the way the neighborhood was. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. 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. You have every type of person in every club. 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. We were trying to hide, actually, because the NYPD Youth Squad was always down here, asking us questions like who was who, and who was our leader. Me and another Unknown Biker were convicted for it. It was like one big family. This was way before anybody was selling drugs. To this day, we still hang out, and wed do anything for each other. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. And I think using full years instead of century description is better. This guy was always strapped. I was 12 or 13. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. 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. Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. It was a bunch of detectives whose primary job was to try and keep tabs on the gangs and see what was going on. It was a handful of us that really made most of the noise. The father ended up getting most of them back after people started getting arrested with them, because he came home and reported them stolen. There were like 20 of us. 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. After that it was acidPurple Haze. Problem-wise, you know, we had a few here and there. I would go anywhere Jews worked because on Fridays, they cant put on the light, the air conditioning, nothing. We had no real guns, just the ones that we made, which were a joke. Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.32.229.106 (talk) 11:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. 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. Theyd hang around. "I was a member of that Ducky gang, did some streetsmart growing up with them. Wake him up, hustle. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. 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