Subj: awesome web site
Actually was looking up any info on SCR`s from my old neighborruled the hood, Rogers Park. When I came across this site. I can remember coming out the front door place on Greenleaf and Western and seeing a whole wall covered with Gaylord slogans. It said something like what I saw on the site. Welocome to our town where the fork goes down, something like that. The dumpsters they stood on to spray paint it were still on the side walk. The very next morning it was all covered in blue Cambell and Lunt SCR`s slogans. I was never in a gang myself, but did manage to rack up a couple felonies for residential burglary in Skokie. I was 18 and spent the first day of spring till the last day of summer in division 4 of Cook County jail. The judge told me the next step was prison I knew I wasn`t tuff enough for prison and besides a DUI I have never been arrested since. But over the years I`ve heard a lot about Gaylords and their legacy. I`m a Union Ironworker here in Chicago and there`s a lot old timers from the Northside. They told me a lot of stories I never believed till I saw this web site. When I was young I knew a Royal from Farwell and Clark named Hayes who was murdered. And a tall blond girl named Jennifer who disappeared. I also knew some of th Cambell and Lunt Royals but they were`nt really like a gang. They just drank and got high in Rogers Park next to the school every night. But the Gaylords were oviously the real deal. They would have been able to recruit me back then no problem As I wasn`t too smart and just wanted to belong to something. I cant imagine white kids living at Lawndale and Fullerton, it`s all hispanic. And now the yuppies are moving west, so far their up to Western Ave. I remember going to a school for messed up kids just north of Peterson on California. It was in a 3 story apartment building. I went to school with kids from group homes (Cambell house etc.), and a tall skinny kid named Pete had Gaylord business cards. Also had Royals, Insane Popes, and Chicago Party Boyz. But the Gaylords ones were the coolest one, and most professional. I cant wait to tell some of the older Ironheads from the old hood about this site tomorrow. Hell if my Dad was alive he would have appreciated it. It really tells a story about a Northside that's no longer exists. White blue collar neighborhoods. Where the gangs got into fight more then anything, and maybe did some grafitti. But they were`nt slinging crack and shooting innocent bystanders. Whatever you do keep this site alive. I`d like to show my son some day what the neighborhoods were like when his father and grandfather grew up there.
Actually was looking up any info on SCR`s from my old neighborruled the hood, Rogers Park. When I came across this site. I can remember coming out the front door place on Greenleaf and Western and seeing a whole wall covered with Gaylord slogans. It said something like what I saw on the site. Welocome to our town where the fork goes down, something like that. The dumpsters they stood on to spray paint it were still on the side walk. The very next morning it was all covered in blue Cambell and Lunt SCR`s slogans. I was never in a gang myself, but did manage to rack up a couple felonies for residential burglary in Skokie. I was 18 and spent the first day of spring till the last day of summer in division 4 of Cook County jail. The judge told me the next step was prison I knew I wasn`t tuff enough for prison and besides a DUI I have never been arrested since. But over the years I`ve heard a lot about Gaylords and their legacy. I`m a Union Ironworker here in Chicago and there`s a lot old timers from the Northside. They told me a lot of stories I never believed till I saw this web site. When I was young I knew a Royal from Farwell and Clark named Hayes who was murdered. And a tall blond girl named Jennifer who disappeared. I also knew some of th Cambell and Lunt Royals but they were`nt really like a gang. They just drank and got high in Rogers Park next to the school every night. But the Gaylords were oviously the real deal. They would have been able to recruit me back then no problem As I wasn`t too smart and just wanted to belong to something. I cant imagine white kids living at Lawndale and Fullerton, it`s all hispanic. And now the yuppies are moving west, so far their up to Western Ave. I remember going to a school for messed up kids just north of Peterson on California. It was in a 3 story apartment building. I went to school with kids from group homes (Cambell house etc.), and a tall skinny kid named Pete had Gaylord business cards. Also had Royals, Insane Popes, and Chicago Party Boyz. But the Gaylords ones were the coolest one, and most professional. I cant wait to tell some of the older Ironheads from the old hood about this site tomorrow. Hell if my Dad was alive he would have appreciated it. It really tells a story about a Northside that's no longer exists. White blue collar neighborhoods. Where the gangs got into fight more then anything, and maybe did some grafitti. But they were`nt slinging crack and shooting innocent bystanders. Whatever you do keep this site alive. I`d like to show my son some day what the neighborhoods were like when his father and grandfather grew up there.
posted by Pacman at 5:49 PM
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Hey whats up. I was an Insane Pope from Washtenaw and Glenlake. I Knew all of the Royals from Farwell and Clark. A couple are still around here and there. And by the way for the record, The Popes and the Gaylords got over their differences in the 80's. My generation knew that we(the white bangers) needed to stick together. It was the older ones that didnt want it. That also included a lot of the SCR's. Wonder what it would have been like if we all had gotten UFO back together.
Wow I feel 20 years younger
thank you for putting this site
together I was a jouster in the
mid 80s
you are doin a great job with this
site ill check in often
STAY UP PEOPLE
I'm a old skool Simon City Royal from F/C I'm also not white I'm black(with a little mix of irish and American idian)which wasnt the average thing you seen in the 1980s now you see it alot.What I wanted to say was that I had my share of run ins with the S/A GLs and the S/M GLs but it's cool to see folks talk about the real deal about what it was like to be in a real gang setting cause the reason I say that is gangs now dont seem to have the same respect for their hoods let alone themselves it used to be a time when you knew who was a bad ass not from how many people they could shoot but by how they could throw down with the fists.And no matter if you were in the same gang or not there was a respect for that person.So although I fought against GLs its good to hear some real stories that I can relate to.Oh and to the I/P from Glenlake st. I've never heard a Pope to ever get along with GLs so it makes me wonder about you
GLOCK P 34TH -N- HAMILTON
Im a 30 yr old,still active pope from the south side, we're five alive . the gaylord's are kool with us. I was locked up with fish and wizard from kilbourn/newport. the bad thing about white gangs are that we are a dying breed. the reason is, is that white young adults are not happy or proud of the race. they would rather be in a latino or black gang. a white man in a latin or black gang does not get the respect that he would get in a white brotherhood. my brothers are the popes the come to family dinners , holiday's , they are uncles to my kids, they are brother-in-laws to my wife. WHITES, BLACK, AND HISPANIC WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT! ARE CULTURES, MUSIC, OUR WAY OF LIFE . LOVE WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE. I LOVE BEING WHITE AND IM NOT ASHAMED OF IT! POPE LOVE..... IF YOU LOVED YOUR CHILDHOOD AND THE MEMORIES OF YOUR WHITE BROTHERS LET TRY HARDER TO KEEP THE WHITE GANGS ALIVE (FOLKS&PEOPLE)
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