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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. (2) Police busted up a rumble between two (South) Bronx gangs. They were like, "Who's the. Our turf was Lee Avenue and Lynch Street. Little Italy was strictly Italian. Baldies wounded.Fordham Baldies/Italian Red Wings Gang War. Third, some more trivia. Wed break into cars, stuff like that. The Hunts Point area is the poorest place you can be. We went to the roof above this nightclub and when they started coming out, we just rained bottles and bricks down on their heads. The gangs started separating. 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. Once again, I wanted to go out with someone who was in that gang. So from being 30 guys with six jackets, we became a thousand just by hooking up with them. It looked like an epidemic had destroyed the place. 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. areas at 8 PM. 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. There was a shootout and it so happens that she was working at that time, and she got killed. It was just: This is your part of Brooklyn, this is my part of Brooklyn. It got to the point where you couldnt walk outside of a radius of five or ten blocks. Well, I once carved a marzipan voodoo effigy of The Fonz after smoking some Bolivian prayer hash at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. Underneath the hill, there were the train tracks. A lot of my buddies went in. Convicted Red Wings were Frank Ciappetta, Vincent Gugliemelli, Philip Bonanno, Jerry Santaniello and Frank Giampetruzzi. 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! 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. 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. It had to be girls who were in that particular gang. Some shotguns, a .30-06, a .30-30. formed. You dont fly your colors in my hood unless youre in one of my brother clubs. Sometimes after I got done kicking her ass, one of my girlfriends would come and, you know, kick her ass some more. We used to wrap the gun up with a lot of tape, because those things had a tendency to blow up in your hands. Everybody else ran. I joined the gang so I could go out with a guy. 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. Thats how I used to get my money. 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. Most were dressed in the 'uniform If anything, wed protect them. Indeed, I started this at someone else's suggestion, with the understanding that s/he would pick up from there. A lot of shit went on. So I think a lot of it had to do with that. 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. Did it help? The 2 external links that I supplied give a lot more detail and documentation, and I suggest that the next editor of this piece start there. Chair (JMH 642) Bionanotechnology, Biochemistry, and Nanomedicine. So after a while, he would make an apartment available to us. With that money Id buy wine and cigarettes. Astoria. I didnt take no shit from nobody. 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. I would say, three out of every five shootouts, somebody would get hit. I was trying to find my way out, and I went into this room and there was an opium den. 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. 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. But there were some of us who had everything a kid could have. of the day,' black leather jackets dungarees and boots. Youd be saying, I dont give a shit who you are, calling the club out. Corona Queens - Best Italian Ice in New york City. I left it, but recommend changing that line. But that didnt last too long once they got used to it. He lived like that for a long time. It was a crazy neighborhood. - Mgm|(talk) 05:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC), this was in the HelpDesk when I had the article's name changed. One summer, we got into it with the Spanish gang. Their turf was around Jefferson Park, 116th Avenue and Pleasant Ave. Basically the territory was divided by the Bronx River that ran through the park. At that time you could buy the Robitussin AC, with codeine. After a few of them you could do anything. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. But it wasnt like they asked us to. That was my opportunity. When wed fight with the black guys, it was more or less hit and run. on/associate of the Baldies was killed--shot to the head, and two We were like, Nah, dont fuck with them. It was easier to sell. 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 rivalry was like what you see in movies and worse, because gangs back then, the people they hung out with meant more to them than their family. An ex-Wanderer had this to say: I was a Wanderer! Mary Hamilton (l. 14). Ciappetta and Gugliemelli were charged with 2nd Degree Murder and the others with 1st Degree Manslaughter. But like I said, yeah, the cops beat your ass. One gang, the Fordham Baldies were reputed to shave the heads, and other body parts, of those they caught. First, five guys would go into a club and do a dance routine. 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. 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 have very fond memories of all the people I met there. I didnt do that. There were like 20 of us. That was it. Thats all you needed, was to have on the back of your jacket: The Majestics. When they started with the knives, we started with the zip guns. Because then you cant be in your own neighborhood carrying a pistol. If they wandered to our side of the park, Bronx Park East or we into their side there was trouble. We had a riot on Fulton Street one time, and thats what we did. It really wasnt a good way to come up, but thats just the way the neighborhood was. You could find it in the grocery store if you wanted it bad enough. In fact, you dont turn around for anybody either. They werent pussies. Wed see them coming, walking up Bushwick Avenue in a line of like 20 abreast. So there wasnt one particular reason. Some people were robbing other gangs for their drugs. After that I knew it was nothing serious, so I never bothered to go to the hospital. It feels bad. On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has . He didnt see where I was shooting from, so I ran like two or three cars up and hid under the last one. I never wore Property of. In the gang, the girls used to have to wear Property of on their jackets. Turns out he was an innocent bystander. I was maybe 16. A Mother of one of the Lucky Lords was arrested with a gun. Go home. But I stole. But heres the thing: I was never a member of that gang. 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. We were so fuckin' broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. Consider: Bronx gangs (mid-20th century) or something like Bronx gangs (1940s-1960s). The parents always got along, and we always respected their parents and they respected our parents. You have it all. Wed hang out in the park at night. We werent selling, we were just using. You had to have respect. But still, they found the same guy who got stabbed before. What do you think?--rocketrye12 talk/contribs 04:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], Sorry, didn't see this discussion - I changed the name to Bronx gangs (1950s-1960s) because that is specifically what is being discussed. On Tuesday, June 1, 1954 at around noon hour, six Red Wings arrived at Orchard Beach, the Bronx in a dark-coloured 41 Cadillac, driven by Frank Giampetruzzi who was AWOL from Camp Dix. I lived down the block from an armory, and there was a sergeant who would come every morning and buy seven bags of dope. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. If he was alone, he got his ass kicked. I lost my virginity at like 14. We were big wine drinkers. They. On weekdays, there was always some 'ducky members' to be found playing hooky." Terror, cross-eyed, 150 pounds, six foot four is the war machine of the Fordham Baldies. It worked the same way for us when we were in their neighborhood. He was invincible. 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. Who was I supposed to hang out with? We used to convert it to our style, with bandanas and patches and everything. 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? Our gang was the wiseguys, you know what I mean? We didnt mess with the people from the neighborhood. They talked about it, shook hands, and then we were brother clubs. They were like, Oh, its not bad. Often it was handled one on? Back then you just hung out with the right people. This was on Fulton and Rockaway, a half block from my house. They were knife-happy. After a while, I realized that theynot just them, other clubs toowere being paid by the landlords to burn the buildings for the insurance. We started saying, Why dont we make patches? And finally we did. Apparently Mario and Ernest looked very much alike and although Mario didnt discuss the death of his brother, it was something that Marios son always knew about. 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. 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It went right through his forearm. We did not have a name but the name Duckie Boys did exist. Inside, sipping a soda, was Ernest Montuoro. 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. People hustled their money. You just couldnt believe it. If we caught someone, we gave em a beating. At that point, all everybody wanted to do was sell drugs. I only see a couple guys from the neighborhood now. Most of us came from broken homes, or parents that had two jobs or alcohol and drug problems. Im 46 now and Im still with this thing. Because of this gang fights between the two groups became the norm. That was a typical night. The resulting group took their name from the Bronx's Belmont Avenue. Colors are more respected than your whole family. Walk all the way back to where we live, just to get high, then hustle again to get lunch. Its where the old freight trains used to run out of Long Island City. There are 41 of them, and each member is a serious brawler. We ran out of a restaurant without paying one time, ran down into this building, and they had like catacombs. You could also take a chimney apartgrab a couple bricks and throw those. 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,. 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. 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. We were at war with two clubs called the Dukes and the Arabian Knights. We were always armed. Big deal.. Wrong place, wrong time. Coke was popular when it first came out, but heroin was the drug of choice because it was a better high. It didnt begin as a crime thing. There were no drugs then. So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. Robbing and stealing wasnt a big thing. So it was an epidemic, but an economic type of epidemic. one fistfights and it would be over. One time we were having a fight and we had a couple of guys up on a roof. Lost Boys of the Bronx: An Oral History of the Ducky Boys By James Hannon. Back then, if a car sat for a day, wed strip it. 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. Their gang was the Comanchero Chaplains. Thats how popular heroin was. We had a lot of guys in the gangsometimes we had 40, sometimes we had 60, sometimes we had 100. Youre walking down the street, you see somebody that you dont like, who isnt in your gang. 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. When everything was done, there was one of them dead from a gunshot and a knife wound. Me and my brother are probably the only ones that dont have a bike. The force would cause the rubber band to shoot a .22 bullet. If two women came into a bar, they never paid for a drink and nobody even went over to talk to them. 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. But you gotta remember one thing: When we were kids, we didnt have to kill anybody. Interestingly, this second nephew of Ernests that emailed me works just a few miles from where Ernest was shot and killed. And then he died. 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. He wanted to hang out so bad that he let us call him Snowball. We meet the Wanderers (Italian), the Del Bombers (Black), the Wongs (Asian Kung Fu), and the Fordham Baldies (oversized bald guys). Then wed be getting high all night till the sun came up, going to the beach, listening to music. I also had a guy who used to bring me cars for parts. I remember cars coming by and shooting at the guys, then we would jump in the car and go after them. I never let anybody get close to me or walk behind me. I do think a cross-reference to similar Brooklyn movies (and Mean Streets) makes sense, but as a Wiki neophyte and busy guy, I don't have the time to do it. We were the two stupid guys that got caught. I joined around 1960, when I was 13. We used to look up to the Hells Angels back then. Everybody wants to make a name for themselves, a reputation. If you were out to get a guy, you wanted to put him in the hospital. Actually, I wish I could go back a couple years. You see it firsthand, and its all bullshit really. If I had to stick you, I would stick you. But when wed fight the Spanish guys, theyd stand there. I proposed some sections, but there is still lots of work to be done. They had me in the bullpen with him when the witnesses came. Farmer was a polio stricken kid who was attacked by a gang called: "The They cornered him, stabbed him three times, and shot him in the ass. It was a two-way thing. Side Story. It was nothing to have like three or four shootouts a day. We were able to do that, whereas the newcomers werent. I used to steal a lot from factories. Youd fire a round in the air, and theyd say, Oh shit, theyre shooting, and theyd run. 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. Mostly a lot of chains, bats, and knives. Click here to learn more about Ernests life as well as pictures of Ernie before he was killed. It was a gangster neighborhood. So Id go back to the club, feed myself, feed my man and whoever else was there. I go to a funeral now and I dont even cry. 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. Sometimes wed say, Come on up. The official athletics website for the Fordham University Rams So they kept the neighborhood. We never had problems against each other, because we grew up in the same neighborhood. The ending was tragic and if one were keeping score on such a grim topic, the Red Wings came out on top. Joey DiMassi is leader of the Fordham Baldies, respected for his fairness and decency. Thats the bottom line. If youre in my club, I take you at face value. Then you had all these other little clubs in between. You showed up at the park at seven and we walked down Bushwick Avenue and wed do what we had to do. "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. You know what beer muscles are, right? You lived in the neighborhood, you joined a gang. I would break into the sweater factory, the clothes factory, the pillow factory I even broke into a coffin factory one day. Wed cut a hole in the fence, go in the cemetery, and have make-out sessions. The gangs -- with names such as the Ducky Boys, Del Bombers and Fordham Baldies (who really are bald) -- are racially segregated. 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. Starts out in Immortal (Crazy) Homicide Turf, Coney Island and the Original Nathans, and ends in. 98.224.236.117 (talk) 03:15, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]. But the thing is, there never is an invasion. 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. To make a zip gun you buy a cap gun. 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. We had the apartment on the first floor and even the old guys from the neighborhood would come in and play cards and dominoes. So we all hang out now, go to parties, things like that. A car can sit on the street two or three days today. 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 never wore colors. You had the Dirty Ones up by Graham Avenue. Their rivals were the Harlem Dragons, who killed one of their own in 1955.The Demons who they had vicious rumbles with. We hung around Aberdeen Park. I got into the gangs very, very early. 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? "Gang Slang" By PHILIP BENJAMIN New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1957; pg. There were opium dens down in Chinatown. And nobody could fuck with that. The police were able to trace the car to Giamppetruzzi and a week later had arrested all the defendants in the case. The University also supports a number of club sports, and a significant intramural . You go to parties and see a lot of the same faces. I got locked up in 80 and came out in 83. We had a clubhouse. It was a mixed group, Italians, Blacks and Irish boys who had grown up together. Wasnt too much of a fight. had zip-guns. I left my mothers house when I was 14. That was the end of him. 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 Fonzie from Happy Days. About ten months ago I received an email from the son of Mario Montuoro. I personally didnt believe in jumping people. We didnt have rules or initiations. It became, This is where were selling drugs. People were having shootouts left and right. There were real gangsters around too. I was too young to know much about them, except that everyone was afraid of them. The area between Pleasant and 1st, and blocks between1st and 2nd were predominately Italian. Who the hell knows whats in your brain? There would be a fight set up, and we told you to be there at seven oclock. Some Red Wings attended near-by Benjamin Franklin High School. We were so fuckin broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. Meanwhile, a local gang, the Fordham Baldies, menacing blacks and Hispanics in Roosevelt's vicinity, kept enrollment overwhelmingly white. I got convicted for a gang-related manslaughter. It was like 50 cents a bottle. We were all hanging out together already, the Unknowns and the South 9s. His laugh reflex got fucked-up. Ballistics work being done on Piggys Candy Store. I started hanging out with the Unknown Bikers around 1975, and I became one in 1976. I was a heroin addict from the age of maybe 13 to 17, but not like a falling-down addict. Now, everybody else has a bike. I'll always have the memories of those times. We were sitting on the corner of Longwood, drinking beer, and this particular club came by and started shooting. 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. We were always there. The Red Wings with Frank that June 1 were John Hall, Louis DePetris, Philip Bonnano, Jerry Santaniello and a girl only known as Bella. I never shot up. Theyd hang around. Murder Inc. came out of that neighborhood. This was 1960 through 1962. I turned out to be one of them, and it cost me a lot. The gang was started around 1955 by the older guys. 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. If they caught you, you were going to get an ass whuppin. Everybody kept their eyes open. Second, I want to expand the introduction. A 25 year-old hanger- Rivals: Allerton Avenue gang, Parkside gang, and the Wanderers gang. We ran up there, disassembled a few chimneys, and took some bricks and some bottles. Or cite a source, of course. I would go anywhere Jews worked because on Fridays, they cant put on the light, the air conditioning, nothing. I was from one side of the Southside, and the Unknowns were from the other side. The father ended up getting most of them back after people started getting arrested with them, because he came home and reported them stolen. The Fordham Rams are members of NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for most sports. One group gathered at PS 171 at 30th Ave and 14th Street, the other Every Friday and Saturday night I would go to factories on Bedford Avenue, Wythe Avenue, and Flushing Avenue. It was on 42nd between Eighth and Ninth in the back of a parking lot. They werent really that strong of a weapon. I used to hide sometimes on the corner and wait for him, just hoping to get him. All of a sudden wed start hitting each other. We buried each others brothers too much. In the 1950s and 60s the youth gangs in the Bronx, New York, emerged with a particular notoriety. If you drank that, it was like forget about it. All of us went to school together. 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