Almighty All is one. Almighty Royals/insane Popes. In 88' We used to travel down to around kimball and Schubert to pick up window pane, micro dots and blotter good times family.
I would love to see a video about white sal. He was my uncle, my father's oldest brother. But I never met sal. My father is from 21st and California. He has history with the Kents. My father to this day dont know nothing about his brother Sal.
Any chance you remember Harvey's clothing store on Milwaukee Avenue? I remember a Jack in a Box burger joint right across the street. They sold Khaki pants and Haines Vneck t-shirts Dago t-shirts..bandanas of all nations and Converse and different colors of thick gym shoes shoelaces. The fitting room had Graffiti from pretty much every gang in the city. We used to shop for clothes there and Maxwell street Black leather jackets,baggy dress pants, Stacy Adams shoes, mitty coatsdress shirts. canvas Converse at Kelly's sports store on Maxwell street. Good o'l days. 70's and 80's .
I have to watch how I phrase this... A piece about Harvey's and Maxwell street (JT) shops. The clothes..the shop owners (who were WW2 survivors)tailors. Stacey Adam's shoes, baggy pleated pants, dress shirts..black gangster leather jackets and Brims from Mad Hatters on Halsted..and the head shops. This my playground from Roosevelt to Cermak on Halsted.
Has anyone ever heard a Latino using the transatlantic accent? Why did only white people use it? The only non-white I heard using the transatlantic accent was martin Luther King Jr.
Let me tell you I'm going to go there and get a haircut because before that right on the corner of Maplewood and I don't know if Maplewood Hirsch there used to be the only barber shop there was four chairs and they were polish guys and they just would put a little put a little shaving cream little warm shaving cream on you clean your kitchen and that was a quarter but then you had a lopsided here for the rest of the month for 50 cents you got Style or at least you had to say so and how they cut your hair
And now that I hear Mr tannenbaum's name it was also associated with a hardware store in and I think just the regular grocery store Mr Tannenbaum was a nice person as I recall
They don't say in the report that that was the liquor store that had a bulletproof vest of you end it had plenty of gambling and other other illegal instant things going on in the basement
The questions that the reporter is asking is ridiculous because this wasn't about us attacking whites or the other or the neighborhood. It was about us having respect on our day in the park that was celebrated every year in peace I got to the point where if the white gangs were allowed to come to our neighborhood come to the park on our day and throw bricks and bottles and the police didn't do anything about it well we had had enough we decided that we were going to do something about it
I mean that that liquor store building that was hit like that that was somebody totally else that wasn't the Puerto Ricans that was done in order to get rid of what was down in there which was a gambling establishment buy some Polish Greeks did we're down there and they had a big gambling establishment there and that was a no no because of that time they were Puerto Ricans between North Avenue and division but there was still a lot of Italians and day and the Puerto Ricans had the Bonita the little illegal Lottery and they had all the horse betting because you can bet at the horses at your local grocery store a little grocery store on the corner Dolly headquarter there and when you open up and start running a kind of more like a little Casino in the basement on the bottom of that liquor store without paying or without permission that's what happens they just took advantage of the situation that there was a ride in the park because a bunch of Puerto Ricans with sticks and bottles and glass and maybe maybe a gun or two nobody had the kind of the kind of stuff that would take to do that damage to a building just take a look at the destruction of the building and you see no homemade pipe not even a homemade pipe bomb back then would have done that kind of Destruction now you get what I mean
Yeah this is where I grew up when we started to go to the high school first we went to Tully because Clemente was still not built yet I want the Yates down the block transfer from moose because you only went to 6th grade and you only went to 5th grade and moves and then you got transferred over the Yeats and I also went to Von Humboldt lived on Maplewood live San Francisco and Armitage above a bakery that I love so much and the owners too it was called Schmidt's Bakery they made the best fudge chocolate cakes and I will get one every everyday when I got home from school the German lady would call me in her name was Magda can you give me a little square with a little carton of chocolate milk cuz I had a lot of curly hair now I have none thank you for the heart on your comment
And at the time the reason why that building was attacked it was because that was a spot for a lot of races louder Reese's men and they used to have gambling powders in the basements and from there there was a lot of times where a lot of gang members a lot of white gang members would be go there and have strategy meetings on how to attack us
I have to say as being a young man in this area and grow up in this area all my life before it became totally Hispanic I grew up there when it was polish Greeks Italians and a lot of hillbillies this incident started because the game called The Gaylords had come through the park by behind the National Guards and were throwing bricks and Bottles out of their cars then when the police officers of the 14th District did not do very much that riled the blood of the of the people in the neighborhood which was predominantly Puerto Ricans and then the police officers and law enforcement decided that we people that were celebrating our day was it was the initial were the initial aggressors and decided that they were going to attack us instead of the people that didn't say it inside of this riot and begin the whole Insurrection behind Humboldt Park I wish when you guys did these stories you would go directly to the source of the people and the people that lived actually right in the area that it happened did we take it a little too far most definitely we did not need to have the stores ravished and robbed the way they were we did not need to set fires but it was a it was the time and place where we were being discriminated against and being harassed by white gangs the neighborhood still was predominantly white owned by businesses so a lot of us were paying more for our produce are produce and some of us were even discriminated from even shopping in some of those stores police officers at the time would pull us over just for being Puerto Ricans or blacks they weren't too many blacks in the neighborhood at the time but we got pulled over searched harassed and pushed around and sometimes taken in for trespassing or curfews when it wasn't it wasn't even and if there was more than one or two together speaking somewhere automatically we will get pulled over and that was it if we didn't have a knife a knife was put in our pockets if we didn't have drugs drugs were put in our pockets what's inside Shakespeare it was very very cold no matter what time of the year so at night if you got locked up for trespassing at night they would open up the windows especially in the winter time and pour cold water on the floor these are things that we protested about that day the truth in all the reasons why what why the Puerto Ricans went up in arms needs to come out you need to go and find out the backstories before you give this story and say that we were insurrectionist and that we demolished our neighborhood know it was a reason behind it and I just giving you a little bit Fred the time my mom was a social worker back in the back there and those days and those neighborhoods where they had to visit home by home home by home to do their work and I still laugh about it because my mom used to say I couldn't go there and do my visit because they let the dog in the yard all day long and they were sick among us and mind you The Gaylords where on Palmer Street in California the Shakespeare police station was that Shakespeare in California and a lot of their kids that lived in that neighborhood were Sons and Daughters of police officers that did not like anything that wasn't right if you were black or brown you have to get down if you were white you were right
I just want to say thank you so so much for putting up this video you have brought back good and very little bad memories I really enjoy my life growing up in Humboldt Park I lived there until 83 when I went to when I went to serve in the Marine Corps graduated from Clemente and then serve for 23 years
I knew Chief, his brother Charlie, Joker ( Howie), Jimmy Flanery. My brother & sister we’re from Cleveland School and PGL’s would come around all the time back then. Early 80’s
Born and raised in Pilsen: 1977-2002, moved for a while then again in 2006-2007. Left that place years ago. I have some of the best memories, but only as a child. Also, the worse memories as a young adult. The political people from that area never gave a crap about the neighborhood. All those years, and I never saw any huge input of money added. That money went to the suburbs. I saw so many friends lose their lives in that neighborhood. I was lucky to have walked away from it. Thank you for this video…..it brought back so many memories
