By Professor of MNGL:
MNGL WHITEY is BLACK!!! Thats why we named him WHITEY!! His whole Familly was Mostly White & Hispanic and he was the only Black Kid in Ha-Ha Heights by Montrose & Naraganset.. His older Brother was a KPGL...

Kinda funny, We all "CRASHED" a Keggar-Party on Naragansett by Merrimac-Park and we dint know anybody there so we were all in the Basement sitting on the couch drinking Beer..

There were 4 or 5 of us?? These TEEN-AGERS dint kno that we were really US!!

This is the Funny-Part... This Kid starts talking sh*t about what assholes the MNGL's are... Were just playing along trying to keep "str-8 Faces"!!!

These guys are all talking smack about us behind our backs rite in front of our faces!!! Oh yea!!! There all describing altercations with us and sh*t that theyre making-up as the go along....

"Have you ever heard of that GAYLORD Professor??"

They had lots of UN-TRUE sh*t to say about me!! I was feeling kinda PROUD about being known as a "GREAT-BIG HUGE MONSTER"!!!

They said I was the "Ring-Leader"!!!

"Do you know WHITEY or LiL Animal???" JUNIOR asked... "Oh yea.. They hang with Professor!!!

OK, like I said... MNGL WHITEY is BLACK!! So I ask these Kids, "Whats WHITEY look like???" Oh he's a big Monster too and Blah, Blah, blah...

Then I asked this Kid "WHAT COLOR IS WHITEY???" He looked confused and said "He's WHITE!!!"

HaHaHa!!!! JUNIOR says "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO YOUR TALKING TO??? Thats "PROFESSOR", thats "WHITEY", thats "LiL ANIMAL and Im "JUNIOR" from the "MONTROSE & NARRAGANSETT GAYLORDS!!!"

HaHaHa!!!!! They looked SICK!!!

larkin in lennies story. Gaylords Popes and Ringo

Ringo, from Kilbourn Park, tells his Larkin story.

Many thanks to the Popes that bring out the truth,these stories can get a little blown up sometimes but the truth is enough ,we all will have a hard time with telling our stories,you just can't seem to put it into words ,when I finally told my kids some of the stories,they said wow it sounds like you guys were always having fun.....we tell the fun stories but the truth is alot of times were hard,like trying to get back to the bus stop and back to the hood after getting released from 26th and Cal ,when you went in with your colors and left that way too ,or partying for days....everybody young and throwing up everywhere LOL and trying to find that one little spot to sleep it off....in a kitchen chair....everything else was trashed with bodies lying everywhere...LOL last one.....slipping into a 3 story abandoned building drunk as hell on wine and dark as hell you have to crawl around to find a place to sleep....Then the sun finally comes up and you look around and the whole place is full of OLD BUMS .....I was glad to turn 15 and the guys started gettin cars.....growing up in the city was .....a trip.....DC Playboys

RIP Tesse - December 29th, 1976


RIP Harpo - December 26th, 1972

Some of Ratt's last comments to the author M.Scott:

...Brother, you have no ideal how honored to be in both your books and and to have known you all my youth and adult life..to have up and downs and still friends and brothers of a belief. Thanks so much for your accurate account of the truth. Keep on writing!

...if anything ever happens to me, and I can't get a hold of you, please know that in my life it was a honor and pleaser to know you and grow up as lords on the streets in our youths....I miss our days Rock.

Ratt was honorably characterized in both books:

Lords of Lawndale

Lords of Kilbourn

Wow. Just found this site.

I was a midget at the little set of A/A, back in mid '80s. I met a lot of older guys, none I remember now. I remember a few first names, like Keith, Norbert, and Mike. If anyone was around Avers/Altgeld then, please help me remember some of it, and fill in the gaps. I remember also, the Ridgeway/Fullerton battle on July 4th, some of it ran right past my front door. I was like, 13. Dad said there was no way I was going outside, and he meant it.

To try me, somebody told an older kid named Ragweed(?) to rough me up, he lost... after he got up, he had dogs*** on his back, they called him Greg the s***man. My memories are fuzzy now, I remember Hunter, who got me in, and the outrage over Toker and Spy. But I was supposed to get a nickname, and didn't end up getting it. Something big happened, and suddenly everything kinda fell apart. No one was around anymore.

I lived kitty-corner from Mozart, at Palmer and Avers. When I needed cover the most, suddenly no one was around. I learned to fight my way in and out of my own neighborhood alone, with the IGs constantly harassing me and my family. My dad scared the s*** out of the local IG crew chief, picked him up by his neck and told him that if anything happened to me, he would come looking for this guy. If another gang came after me, he would hold this little 'rican responsible, so to look out for me. The IG said he'd bring his boys, my dad told him to bring enough body bags for all his boys.

We moved to the Brickyard area in '87 or '88, just ahead of some POS Cobras and Disciples. In about 1993 I chased a Cobra through Bell Park (Wellington/Oak Park) in broad daylight, in my car, with a shotgun on my lap. He ran like a little bitch. I'm settled now, and I know it's all long gone. But I still got it, if I have to.

BRUTAL Gang Fight at Fenger HS, Chicago, IL

Old School Gang Member Comments on Chicago Gang Fight: Been wanting to comment on this since it happened. This kind of fight is what most of us were involved in back in the day. Sorry he died but I'm reminded of when people hear gunshots and they run to see were it's coming from. That jungle did'nt just become the jungle. His Momma should've taught him to walk the other way instead of right in the middle. The parents should not be revolted that this type of killing occured. It's been going on since before any one of us was born but now Ron Huberman wants millions to study the problem. Give me a break

Chicago Gang Fight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4nAr_5qLUY

South Side ex-gang member states:
Been in plenty riots myself and battles when we were outnumbered shame he got killed.

Nobody recorded when I got beat by a dozen two-shts and I got hit with pipes bats carjacks anyways I'm lucky polacks got hard heads. I wish all mobs would go back to oldskool style fighting.

Response to Glenn Beck's Video:

This guy is a damn moron what kid or most adults for that matter can pick up and swing a railroad tye??? It looked like a 1x4 to me and this kind of fighting has ALWAYS been around where does he live in a fukn cave? WHAT AN IDIOT...