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Palmer Heads were a gang in the Palmer Street area before they decided to turn Gaylord in the late 1960s. The main guys listed on the Palmer Heads card are the three guys who started the Palmer Gaylords. |
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"There is No Doubt about it The PALMER STREET GAYLORDS were true Warriors. You knew When you Went To Their hood To Start Sh_t, You Were in For a Long Night No matter What. And may GOD help you if you were The last one standing By yourself." From Old School Simon City Royal.
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Father Craig, of St. Sylvesters, would allow the Palmer Street Gaylords to conduct meetings in the recreation center. Mace - the acting president - would use these meetings to organize sneak attacks against the Latin Kings. He would call in at least six other sets to attack the Kings in Humboldt Park. This was prior to the People/Folk Alliance.
One such attack was on King Capone in a Barber Shop on Kedzie. This lead to a week of constant attacks from a steady stream of Latin Kings coming up Mozart Street towards Palmer.
Bronski - a leader of the Bel-Airs - was credited on another website for chasing down a Palmer Street Gaylord and shooting him. The article claimed that he took revenge for the beating of a Bel-Air and added a lot of drama to the story.
This is what happen in that incident: A Bel-Air got shot. Bronski came down Palmer Street looking for Mace. The only ones that were on the street at that time were the younger Gaylords. None of the Senior Gaylord's were around. Bronski was f--king with the younger Gaylords and Mace's Lil brother told Bronski, "If there is something you want to say to my brother you can say it to me." Bronski pulled out a gun and shot Gary once in his side. Having both the Gaylord's and the Chicago Police after him, he fled to another state.
Bronski returned a few years later and turned himself in - pleading that he found Jesus - and was released by a sympathic Judge.
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