Excerpts from the documentary What's Uptown, produced by Marcie Telander and Terry Moyemont Watch the full version at Media Burn: mediaburn.org/video/whats-uptown/ Help us caption & translate this video! amara.org/v/Z2jf/
same story all around the world these days. this is why I try to go to locally owned places instead of chains whenever I have a choice. Support our local businesses!
Grew up in Roscoe Village and ventured into Uptown around this era....alot of real soldiers back in those days on all sides. Whites of 50 different ethnic origins (Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, etc.) , blacks , Puerto Ricans....a breed of guys you'll never see again. Video brings back alot of memories ..good, bad and ugly. #chicagoforever
J T Roscoe Village was a 💩 hole back then. Gangs were out of control. Now the cost of property and gentrification is insane. I would love to buy there but can’t afford it.
Would you ever be willing to share those experiences? I’m deeply interested in history and this neighborhood is where I want to focus on. I’d like to hear from you!
I grew up in Uptown in the 80s. There were garbage dumps on every vacant lot, and there were many vacant lots on every street. There was graffiti everywhere, abandoned buildings, gangs of kids would throw rocks at your car at the corner, jump on top of your car, people would hang out everywhere, gangs on every block. There were drug addicts and homeless people everywhere. It began to get gentrified in the late 80s early 90s- , buildings started to get pressure washed, remodeled, vacant lots turned into newly-built libraries, stores, restaurants, condominiums. People had to move out because rent became too expensive. Today, Uptown and Broadway Ave are beautiful, safe and peaceful compared to the wild, crazy dangerous 80s
Good description of how things were. The 1980s things were not really gentrified yet. it was still a lot like the 1970s , but people had started getting pushed out in the late 1970s and 80s for gentrification starting with the building of Truman college. Housing the poor lived in was torn down for the building of the college. Hillbiillies as they called them then, were forced out .
It's definitely gentrified but it's still one of the more dangerous areas on the North side. but obviously the north side is 100x safer than the west and south sides
I lived on the North side of Chicago from'87 til '96. I can remember seeing the street preacher many times in those years. I wonder is he still out there preaching?
I was wondering if it's the same one who I used to see downtown about 10 years ago. He's an older black guy so it could totally be this dude. He yelled at me and told me I was going to hell what I walked by
Grew up there, I was one years old when this was filmed, by time I was five I was walking up the mall from Magnolia up to Beacon and Sunny side to go to Stockton School. Lived in the heart of it for half my Life. The 80s and 90s in Uptown was crazy but tons of fun. We was all poor but always seemed to have a good time. I remember seeing my first condo for sale sign go up and that was slowly the end for a lot of Uptowners who eventually got pushed out. My family lived there for 4 generations.
I live on beacon right between magnolia and Sunnyside 4500. It's definitely calm down quite a bit. Once you get to Broadway and even more so Sheridan there's all the crazy folks. There's still gangs here but they're not really on nothing
I know it’s hardly something to glorify now but Chicago in the 60-80s was so diverse that you had blacks, Hispanics, and whites all banging the same thing
I was born in Uptown on Sheridan and Leland. rough neighborhood. Much poverty and diversity as well. lots of broken bottles in the streets , and fights. . Rents were cheap, but had roaches and mice. sometimes it was just boring to be a kid there as you had no money and to poor to go anywhere. . The streets were the playground and you'd play softball in the vacant lots. girls use to jump rope in those days and the bicycles had the banana seat. . I went to Stewart school. Rough school.
@@joseperez1085 Stewart school You must remember Vice principal Mr. Conway and gym Teacher Mr bascalia- balded headed and tough. I got beat up so much in that school that i still am getting over it today.lol
we trying to keep that tradition alive but trumps america is making that hard , I HATE IT WHEN MEDIA OUTLETS BE LIKE CHICAGO IS A SEGREGATED CITY , THAT PISSES ME OFF ,
@@LAprodz it is extremely segregated. Because most people will self segregate based on who they know, look like and feel comfortable around -- THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. Trump has zero to do with that. Grow up.
Michael Smith thats a lie Gangbangers do not segregrate people get around . i know gangbangers that are in real estate and talk to proffessional business peoe that have no affilaitons .. Your perception is misguided . mexicans go to black peoples restruants i go to harolds chicken . i know black and white and every other creed go and get Internacional Tacos on 45th ashland . thats not segragation you probably talking about classism thats the only segrgation i see . its not about color . not since the 60s
I'm from the westside of chgo back then in 1982 I went out of my way to go to Von Steuben high school just to get away from all black. I wanted to be around all groups of people. One thing about the Northside of chgo, it didn't matter what color you were. Man, that was the good old days.
I believe that's true! I've lived in Uptown. Howard St., Westside. and Humbolt Park. Uptown was the most diversified I was very poor growing up. To be honest, my better childhood memories were in the areas that I've described. The people were different. I remember sitting on the front porches together in the summer. We shared and borrowed back & forth. I guess I cannot adequately describe what I'm trying to convey
@@LeoSlimTV sunnyside and magnolia gaylords were wpo gang back then..... racist hillbillys mostly but crazy they lived in a mostly black area of uptown in the early 80s
@@user-rz9wz1bx2l I ain’t been in chi town like that but I feel what you saying I grew up in one block surrounded by a bunch of big hoods But till this day I keep representing my one block WOODLAWN 51 ST SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES, but now I see it trying to get gentrification but we Hispanics mostly Mexicans ain’t letting that shit happen never, death before dishonor like I told my Drill sergeant
When I was a small child, I was told that uptown had hillbillies. It was presented to me in a way that I was supposed to be afraid. So I grew up thinking that hillbillies that lived in uptown where scary monsters, along with the rest of uptown. But I thought that people that lived indigenous in the south and other places were not scary. I was able to make that distinction even as a small child being prejudiced by others. Everyone has a history and a story. Every story is fascinating if it can be told.
I moved to Uptown in the late 80s got my first apartment on Malden. Back then Alderman Helen Shiller was fighting gentrification. She even knocked on my door to campaign for re election. It's too bad she fought a losing battle.
My family lived at leland and sheridan for many years. We went the Buddhist Temple next the Goldblatts. My favorite spot was the fun zone arcade. Anyone else remember?
fun zone arcade. What year are you talking about?. i remember what we called n pops arcade . because the the old man ran it. He was very rude he was.lol this was int he 1970s
@@TakataScience I think the fun zone and pops are prbably the same thing. He was right off leland and broadway across from the hardware store ace. It could have been called the Fun zone. It was the 1970s anyways before the 1980s arcades came around. They had games like gun fight, pin ball, submarine, hockey.and i think a race car game
I remember we used to live , in N dayton st & montrose . In 70, to 80 . We use to go to sheridan , and broadway . To visit family and hange out. And go to the rivera thearters . To watch chuknorris , bruce lee movie . And buy ar goldblass store. I realy miss the 70.. and chicago.. then we been back to visit . But every thing realy had change.. one thing its cleaner! And the old army store in broadway was still open.
Not at all, I grew up in Uptown in the 80s. There were garbage dumps on every vacant lot, and there were many vacant lots on every street. There was graffiti everywhere, abandoned buildings, gangs of kids would throw rocks at your car at the corner, jump on top of your car, people would hang out everywhere, gangs on every block. There were drug addicts and homeless people everywhere. It began to get gentrified in the late 80s early 90s- , buildings started to get pressure washed, remodeled, vacant lots turned into newly-built libraries, stores, restaurants, condominiums. People had to move out because rent became too expensive. Today, Uptown and Broadway Ave are beautiful, safe and peaceful compared to the wild, crazy dangerous 80s
nooo way...the sidewalk from argyle to irving used to be all cracked up and pothole ridden....metal garbage cans that would be on fire in the winter w bums all huddled around
Grew up in Humboldt Park at the Twilight zone on Rockwell and evergreen back in the 80s I remember all the old gang bangers back when I was a youngster then moved to Maplewood an wabasha in the 90s I remember Rick dog coming to are house driving a 65 gold Chevy Impala all the time
They also shot a few street scenes in Pilsen. That’s where esai morales character lived. There’s a well known mural you can see in the movie by 18th and Racine. It’s still there today but you can only spot faded glimpses of the original. And also Esais gang is coming out of a Latino cultural center there on Racine which also had paintings on the facade such as Pancho villa and Che Guevara.
The white boys in this video are Gaylords, and if theres a misunderstanding or confusion as to why they are hangung with the GD's thats because this video was shot before the people and folk aliances was created. At this time the Gaylords were there own entity hence they were not converted with the people nation yet.
God bless those street preachers trying to show the addicts life and recovery through God's help! And God bless the dear southern man "tryin' to quit". I wonder where they all are now ...
Hello My name is Marco Gonzalez and making documentary on the old skool chicago gangs from back in the day and we need help from people who saw that era and generation to tell us their stories growing up , and the difference of todays culture if you are interested , we'd appreciate all the help we can get from old skoolers let us know , thank you very much
I grew in the uptown I'm former gang member a real one. If any body remember me. I really made my bones on clark and Lawrence if you need any info about back in the days just let me know.
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@161 G nobody runs a suburb, but the Razas are the biggest, Imperial Gangsters on Add road, Boulevards still in highview a little, old gaylord grandpa's by the 601 bar and Memory Lane, and obviously any illegal who wants to wear red can still go be a Latin count on Micheal lane, even tho the lane has Cobras Deuces 18st SGDs sureno wannabes vice lords basically anybody.
They could if they were raised in it. You look too young to be talking like a bitter boomer. Self loathing zoomer? Let me guess, there’s no good music anymore, technology, blah blah blah. Not like other kids 😂
Anyone know their colors? Because the "black and blue" thing sounds like b.s. Also are these guys from the South Side or North Side Popes I'm not very familiar with Chicago so excuse my lack of knowledge
2:52 the guy with the white power t shirt, people often forget how incredibly racist people were back then, truly shocking and a testament to how for we have come, aswell as how far we still still need to progress too
Kid looked like he was 12, probably got off on the shock factor more than an actual ideological belief. How white power can he actually be with blacks chilling next to him in the background?
@@brianmichellebowling599 damn egg its been a long time bro this old footage is immortal....whiteboy LKN from Wolcott here.....RIP Bradley RIP Kieth RIP buzz RIP Stewart I always was cool with the GLz from da mall...7-12 or get yo head swelled...shout out to da Kenmore Boys also
@@RazPerignon Yet even NYC had a higher murder rate at the time. What a joke🤣🤣 watching western europeans try and act tough like us will always be adorabIe
You have black dudes there and the white dudes flossing a shirt that say white power ...shit like that don’t happen in Los Angeles ..real shit in Los Angeles
You can hear a black dude say they fight the same gangs and all the gangs he mentioned ride under the 5 so I’m assuming these two other gangs are folks hanging out together and click up because they have to go to war with those finball gangs
@@adaml7349 bettter than blacks hanging out with a bunch of white supremacy bitches. I'm glad times changed cuz then niggas look soft fuckin with them crackas
@@jaybiddy955 not necessarily. Family loyalty trumped gang membership. Most I knew banged the same as their father\brother\cousin..They'd carry the same flag if their parents relocated them. That contributed to a lot of opposition. Still does.
IMPOSSIBLE , UPTOWN IS NOW BEEN REMODELED , NO MORE GANGBANGERS LIKE THAT ANYMORE , JUST A FEW GD'S AND STONES N LORDS , LATIN KINGS BUT YOU DONT HERE NOTHING LIKE THAT ANYMORE , SOUTHSIDE IS FUCKED UP AND WEST SIDE , HUMBOLDT PARK IS BEING TAKEN OVER BY YUPPIES, LAWRENCE AVE TOO ALMOST 2018
Lol. No, so much of the north side has been cleaned up! I would say clean up started around 1992 or 93 to about 2010. City government got really serious!
Nobody mentioned the little skinhead kid with the white power t shirt. I just remember a lot of Nazi skins and non racist one's too in the punk rock scene back than. Most of the scene being concentrated on the north side of town.
