The Northside Alliance

By the middle to late 1970s, the Gaylords were finding themselves in vicious bloody wars with Spanish oriented gangs on the streets of North side of Chicago. These Spanish gangs bore titles, such as; Latin Panthers, Latin Eagles, Imperial Gangsters, Latin Kings, Spanish Cobras, Orchestra Albany, Latin Disciples and many others. The Spanish gangs seemed to popping up all over the place. Now, the Gaylords were not in this battle by themselves. The other White gangs were also either trying to erase or contain these mostly Spanish gangs.

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Many White gangs had allied themselves at this time period to fight off the many Spanish gangs. As early as the 1970s, the Gaylords had lead a unity known as UFO. UFO stood for United Five Organization. It was also termed United Fighting Organization at one point. The gangs that found themselves in this unity at one time or another, between the early 1970s, and the very early 1980s, were gangs like Playboys, Jousters, Ventures, C-Notes, White Knights, Hells Devils and Rice Boys.

Additionally at this time period, the Gaylords, like the many other mostly White gangs , took a White Power stance. Evidence of this can be found on many Gaylord business (complimentary) cards that were created at this time. As far as the White Power stance, there was no real doctrine behind this, like the KKK has against Jews because they think they control the media, it was basically a slogan or battle cry. It was a way of saying, "This is us and this is our neighborhoods, so stay out." It seems that all Chicago street gangs were taking a racial stance at this time. An older Spanish gang member that fought against the Gaylords said, "Yeah, every gang was trippin off that race thing."

Pride of the Stone Greaser

The Gaylords and their use of White Power related slogans, and symbols were not directed against an entire race. It was just a defensive measure taken by White youths, of a mostly White street gang, against the overwhelming majority of other clubs or gangs of different ethnic cultures that were pouring into their neighborhoods. This was part of the defense of protecting their neighborhood against other gangs that were trying to take over the Gaylords neighborhoods as a possible base for their operations.

By operations, I'm not just talking about new turf to fight their wars form, I'm also talking about drug sales. A vast majority of street gangs operate by the large sales of drugs and turn their neighborhoods into small bases of sales. The Gaylords, as a whole, have never invested into the enterprise of drug sales. Although some individual Gaylords may have become sellers of smaller type street drugs, the main idea of the Gaylords has never been about the drug industry of the streets. The Gaylords main theme or idea seems to be the pride and honor of defending their neighborhoods, fellow Gaylords and all they respect and love from the ever constant threat of other gangs that threaten their freedoms.

Now, besides the White Power stance, and its unity with other White gangs through the UFO unity; the Gaylords, and many other White gangs also used the term, "Stoned Greasers". This was just to show that they had a heritage that could be traced back to the days of Greaser gangs. You know, the good old days of leather jackets and greased hair. Why did they do this? It is probably because, the rise of the many Spanish gangs and the violence that ensued after that, had killed off the possibility of those good old days ever happening again. The times of hanging out in a soda shop parking lot, combing your hair, talking to chicks around nice cars and an occasional simple fist fight with another gang were never going to happen again. All out bloody gang warfare was the conditions now.

The term Stoned Greaser was not the only thing that was used to show their pride for their Greaser gang heritage. Gaylords and other Stone Greaser gangs could also been seen slicking their hair back or cuffing the bottoms of their pants legs, with their socks showing.

Now, just because it seemed like all White gangs were getting along peacefully did not mean that they were all seeing eye to eye. The Gaylords also found themselves in fueds with White gangs, such as the North side Insane Popes, Freaks and the Simon City Royals. The war with the Simon City Royals would go on for many years in to the future, with the Insane Popes becoming a steady ally of the Simon City Royals during the course of the entire war.

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In the middle to late 1970s, the Gaylords took on new territory, on the North side of Chicago. They opened some new sets.

One of new sets opened at this time was Moffat and Campbell. The street corners of Moffat and Campbell are around the main intersection of Armitage and Milwaukee in the area called Buck Town.

Moffat and Campbell was a strong set with a lot of White Pride. They were in a tough spot as they were besieged by many Spanish gangs. Polish immigration might have been the what fueled the area years ago, but now Puerto Rican immigration was flooding in and all the native populace was fleeing.

The Moffat and Campbell Gaylords were not only busy defending their hood against gangs, like Latin Disciples, Campbell Boys and Latin Kings, they were also busy just trying to stay alive from cultural and racial over flooding.

Another set opening in the late 1970s was about five miles north of Moffat and Campbell, and closer to Lake Michigan. This was the Sunnyside and Magnolia Gaylords. Sunnyside and Magnolia was in the poor class region of Uptown, not too far from Broadway and Lawrence. Most of their ancestry was from a Southern region of the United States who had come to Uptown to work many years ago. Now it was a broke, destitute area.

The Sunnyside and Magnolia Gaylords were started with the help of the Kilbourn Park Gaylords. This was after the realization that their area was being overrun by Spanish immigration in the form of vicious gangs like the Latin Kings. They basically started the Gaylords as a defensive measure.

Also in the area of Sunnyside and Magnolia was an organization known as the "Uptown Rebels," who were tightly allied with the Gaylords. The Uptown Rebels were a bit more on the White Supremacy side of the fence then they Gaylords. While the Gaylords were receiving police attention for the killing of a couple Latin Kings, the Uptown Rebels were receiving a lot of press for their White political views and actions.

About a mile and a half west of the Sunnyside and Magnolia Gaylords was another Gaylord set, Seeley Ainslie, that also opened in the late 1970s. Spanish immigration was threatening the very existence of this nearby neighborhood also. So, in came the Palmer Street Gaylords to teach the natives of the area on how to deal with things, by getting this new set going to fight off the incoming gangs like the Latin Kings.

It seemed like many Latin Kings had been dropped like a bomb, in to the Uptown and Albany Park areas of Chicago. Even the enemy White gang of the Gaylords, the Simon City Royals, were engaged in all out war with the Latin Kings.

On another note about the Seeley and Ainslie Gaylords, unlike most Gaylord sets that wore the colors of black and Light blue as their official colors, The Palmer Street Gaylords wore gray and black. Since they had their fingers in the creation of the Seeley and Ainslie Gaylords, this new set also styled gray and black as their official colors. Additionally, the Palmer Street Gaylords also helped develop the Gaylords at Cleveland School Yard, and they also styled the same colors.

One last set that started in the late 1970s, and worthy of honorable mention was the Sayre Park Gaylords. This set was around ten miles southwest of Sunnyside and Magnolia, close to Elmwood Park, Illinois.

Now, Sayre Park might not have had Spanish immigration flooding into their neighborhood, but the Gaylords started over there to make sure that it did not start anyway. After all, most of these guys were once members of other Gaylord sets, or other White gangs before; and they had seen first hand the waist and destruction from immigration coming in.

Two of the Sayre Park Gaylords' founders were blood brothers, and half Mexican. And as strange as it may seem, even they were displaying White Power tactics. PROOF THAT, YOU DID NOT HAVE TO BE 100% WHITE TO DISLIKE THE SPANISH IMMIGRATION FLOODING IN.

Now, one would think with all the Gaylord sets around at this time, that by the early 1980s that the Gaylords were a force to be reckoned with. They were plain and simple.

There was only one problem. By the early 1980s, close to fifty White gangs or crews were either gone or presently going extinct from the over whelming numbers that Spanish immigration brought in. The numbers of the Puerto Rican, and Mexican gangs at this time were outstanding. It seemed for every White gang set gone, a Spanish gang set had been born.

All this was just on the North side of Chicago. On the South side of Chicago, the only Gaylord set was at 31st and Throop, and things did not look good for them. By 1986, this set would finally close its doors, and thereby shut the Gaylords out from the South side of Chicago.

Mexican gangs were eating up the South side of Chicago, still pushing the populace in to fleeing. Then their were the Black gangs, and their numbers were outstanding. White gangs such as the Popes, and the 12TH Street Players seemed to be the only thing left of the White gangs on that side of Chicago, and most of these White gangs were more in Cicero Illinois then Chicago.

So, by the time the early 1980s were rolling along, things were chaotic on the streets of Chicago for sure.

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