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THE GAYLORDS OPENED THEIR PALMER STREET SECTION IN 1969

The Lords of Palmer Street Stand Tall

"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.

Saint Sylvester Meetings

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.

King Capone Attack

One such attack was on King Capone in a Barber Shop at Armitage and California. This lead to a week of constant attacks from a steady stream of Latin Kings coming up Mozart Street towards Palmer. There was a lot of shooting which lead to Lil Capone and his girlfriend, Lefty, getting shot at Richmond and Mozart.

Bel-Air Shoots Palmer Street Gaylord Story

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 happened in that incident: A Bel-Air got shot. Bronski came down Palmer Street looking for Mace. The reason was given that a Palmer Street Gaylord shot a Bel-air, but it really had to do with a former girlfriend named, Debbie, who was hanging out on Palmer Street. 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.

	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.
Palmer Street Heads	The Three Stooges

R.I.P

Tarzan/Stevie

Tarzan/Stevie from PGL passed away May-13-89. He died like someone had said working for the City of Chicago...The Street was caving in and he would have lived but he pushed another guy out of the way and lost his life by saving someone else. A True Hero! God Bless you!

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