1978 SPECIAL REPORT: "EAST L.A. GANGS"
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- East Los Angeles gangs have for the longest consisted of gangs like White Fence, located around Whittier Boulevard, Primera Flats, who once occupied the Aliso Village housing project, or the many MaraVilla gangs, which was named after a neighborhood in East L.A. and are not aligned with the Surenos or Mexican Mafia, all being some of the oldest and largest gangs of East Los Angeles.
Whether its gangs along Olympic Street like Varrio Nuevo Estrada of the Estrada Courts or the sets of 1st Street expanding from Cuatro Flats to the Evergreen neighborhood just about every section of East L.A. is claimed by a Sureno gang.
North of Interstate 10, which expands well into Northeast Los Angeles as far as Atwater Village, is another section that could be considered as an extension of East L.A. with the likes of the historic Lincoln Heights neighborhood or housing complexes like William Mead or Romona Gardens.
Within this section of Los Angeles are the locations of some of the city’s largest and most reputable gangs like Big Hazard and some of the city’s oldest gangs like Toonerville or the Avenues, amongst others.
Some of the East Los Angeles gangs have been around since the 1930s, while some others were established later during the 1970 and 1980s as some have had generations of family members to be part and affiliated of a specific gang.
CZcams is the closest thing we have to a Time Machine
Wow great statement so true my friend very well said
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That we know of.
@@jasonpeters9716 derrrr!
@@RichardOrchard-ih2rx🙄💩🤡
This was back when Geraldo was an actual journalist and not a corporate media hack.
Just was going to post the same!
Before he gave away the militarily info by drawing in the sand
Lol i just saw an old Geraldo interviewing the Hells Angles . He almost got his butt kicked twice. Once he was filming them in the street w W/out permission and again in the studio. With stupid questions and just not respecting them 😅😃🤣😂😎👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@RicArmstrong is that the time he was hit with a chair and broke his nose on TV ?
@@ronaldescoto7673
I believe so.
One of the officers questioning the guy by the payphone is Gil Carrillo, he became a detective and helped catch the “Night Stalker” crazy.
I caught that one too..
He does a podcast wt George Lopez
Yes he did very good detective ... He also came out in some episodes of the first 48 .. Good catch 👍🏼👍🏼 have a nice day 👍🏼
The public caught the night stalker
Do your homework.
@@ruthless12street correct
Imagine going back in time and showing these guys how kids from the same neighborhood talk saying the N word freely and wearing skinny jeans. They would lose their minds
They would look at you like you were crazy.
@ Todays generation is corny and tame
they would say the looks and sounds cool and join the fun.🤷
Sad to say but it’s not about the culture anymore that was back then the
@ " they was corny "
Clearly you aren't Raza and have zero sense of our cultural understanding.
Stay in your lane and stay out of ours chavala. Puro Brown Pride ✋🏼✋🏽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
In the beginning your video is showing where I grew up in Estrada courts we called it Vne I was a gang member back in the 1970s good time's and bad . but East La . will always be home in my heart.23 years of my first life. Now I live a native American life why because I have land and family on the reservation.i am a proud American Indian.and proud of where I grew up. thanks for the memories.
I’m half Navajo and Honduran. I grew up in Mar Vista Gardens in Culver City 77-98. I never got into gangs. I was a Raver kid 👊🏼👊🏼 My projects was in a fresh part of town to grow up in too.
@@user-gg9fp1fh5u I had a girl friend at those projects smell would so you are 50 years old around there.
@@markl6106 45
I remember when Native American Indians lived in that area.
Peace and love to you big yin respect 🏴
Images, texture, color, suspense, feeling, silence and sound. You are so skilled. Proud of you.
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Dropping gems!!!! Thank you 😊
Simon
OG news clip right here!!! Thanks for posting it reminds me of Boulevard Nights!🧢🇲🇽
Lookie lookie people actually were able to
Have lives without a cellphone or tablet.
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What a trip, going back in time. This is where I grew up, playing baseball, football and basketball at Belvedere Park. Playing for Maravilla Huskies for coach John Aguire. Proud to be raised in E. Los Angeles!! I recognize a few of the youngsters....you had to be there to understand. Great video 💯
Early in this video they show a street sign, McDonnell Ave. i had to look it up because it looked so familiar. Now I know why, my Grandmother lived on the 500 block of Hoefner, just over 1 mile east. I lived there for awhile as well. It really was a good neighborhood, probably a little better than that area where they did this video. But you never know, maybe the next street over from Hoefner there probably was some stuff going on once in awhile. Of course grandparents did not drive, so we always went over to their house for all family dinners. Other family in Monterey Park, which has really changed. Great grandmother lived in a little apartment on Beverly. She never did learn English! This video was 1978, I was 22 years old, I guess same age as some of these guys. Like you said, going back in time!!
Wow! We all were waiting to hear from you. I mean this vid is about you right????
Crazy all these people are in their 50s, 60s, 70s or dead. The little kids are probably in their mid to late 40s. Would be cool to track them down and see how it all ended up
I'm 59 yrs I grew up in El Monte CA I seen it all . It was bad in the 70s , real bad . I'm in Phoenix now living my life and a christiano serving the Lord but I know alot of vatos weren't so lucky . Many people from L.A. live here in PHX
I'm fifty-nine years old and grew up in El Monte, Medina Court area.
I knew a handful from Califas that came to New Mexico because there was no three strike law here at that time. I guess how they all ended up was based on the choices they made like the rest of us🙏🙏🙏505NUEVO
I am 46 VLPV
It ended how the rich white people wanted it to end .... My people entrenched in endless gang killings / death from drugs / war / tunnel vision / Jail prison
This weekend is dedicated to binge watching your content, it's gonna be a nice relaxing weekend full of good food(I'm cooking great meals and snacks all weekend) , relaxation, good entertainment, my 2 cats and peace and 🤫🤐. Starting NOW!!
Our parents and grandparents came to America is search of opportunity, liberty and a chance to make it. But instead, a lot of Chicanos fell way short of that. You owe your hard working parents more than you have given them. Put down the beer and drugs and educate yourself as best you can.
america is currently collapsing economically culturally poverty homelessness
It’s because Hispanic parents let their kids do whatever they and let them become cholos. All the moms want to do is make their cholo sons are eating enough 😂and in the black community, none of the dads stick around to raise their kids so they turn to the streets and gang-bangin as well. It’s not the kids, it’s the parents. The KIDS deserve more than what the parents gave them
The people in this video from 1978 are the grandparents now
@@JJJ_JJ1 yup
@@JJJ_JJ1 Most of them are probably dead by now. I was 12 years old back in 1978, I’m now a grandparent.
Always coming with that fire very firme content
I INJECT FIRME CARGA. IT'S FIRME
This is gold my brotha i love it
Nice video!!👍 I love the footage of the people just being themselves and the story line was a great story of varrios engaging one another in good times and bad times...I'm 51 yrs old and this is how I remember East LA...How time flies!!great video with a young Geraldo Rivera!
You know the train station in LA was once a place where they keep native Americans they were called gabalinos tagva from the San Gabriel mission back in the late 18oos. To beginning of the 1900 my grandmother grave is at the San Gabriel mission she died In 2012 one day before she turned. 102 years old a proud American Indian woman who lived all her life in East Los .
So she was a native to the land?
@@d.will9359 yes derreon her picture is on the wall at USC they have a building. dedaced to the first settlers of california.in each raises she is the only picture that they pick to represent native American Indian woman it was great to be there as a grandson.my grandfather was allso American Indian as well.
@@markl6106 man that’s wonderful. I’m into history and I’m finding so much out.
@@d.will9359 do you know about your mom or dad history I bet it will blow your mind. And at the same time make you proud to be a part of it I know that is what happened to me.
@@markl6106 I know a little but I gotta do a little bit more.
Real life Boulevard Nights. Thanks for posting. Nice to re-enter the time portal of the 70’s.
Thank you for this video. I really enjoyed it. Very enlightening. I always enjoy your content.
21 yr olds looked 40 back then. Damn smh. I wonder where they’re now?
@lord havmercy Or deceased
Or in Prison
I wonder how many of those kids ended up being in the 1980s gangs anyway😢
🤔my estimation says only HALF wound up there, yes..
Probably all
Un régal ton canal Hez !!! Merci
You account is gold🙌🏼 keep it up!
I don't know why the beginning of the video made me want to cry, I felt this sadness inside, maybe because I remembered growing up in O*C and if you think about it it's very similar since long ago it was part of L.A, those streets looked familiar like home. Especially since haven't lived in that state for many years now. Time goes by too quickly, life is but a vapor.
This is the best channel for a library of raw history 💯
With your choice of music, You just take it to another level, always ❤️ 😉
Facts !
Hezakya news, man you get the dopest stuff, you deserve all the awards in every category, thank u so much for your bad ass content!
Mexican ladies just as beautiful back then as they are today...
Yes they are!
Nowadays most Mexican girls are shot out... Good looking Mexican girls faded away like 11 years ago
They go too hard on the sharpies… I prefer PR chicks.
@@killadelphia215 yes my chick is half PR loyal AF when we were teens a dude pulled a knife on me in a house we fell in to the bathroom fighting dude got on top of me about to start stabbing my girl ripped the shower curtain rod down and started beating dude in the head enough to were I was able to get to my feet and start fighting again and she was and still is a hottie been together 24 years now!
@@killadelphia215 You're talking about old cholas and the 90's. That style died out and is only active among those who want to keep it retro. Mexican women out here in LA are coveted because they still have what many women in other communities don't have today, which is a family nucleus. It's certainly being disrupted and corrupted by today's f*m movements but compared to other groups out here we still have it much better and together. Rap music and all that social media has a lot of them way over their head.
Your videos are awesome !
This was years before MS 13 showed presence in the barrio’s of L.A , before saggers, shaved heads, Chicano Rapp music and the color blue came on to the scene and changed or “ruined” the Chicano culture in all of East L.A. but all of Southern Califas!
Norsta familia ese ❤
@@arvinpareftsid2039 I'm white from Washington state, I was just trying to sound like a hardened Mexican gangster 😆
What's worse is, young chicanos are talking and acting with black inflection now... its really fkked up... they only listen to rap and do not even know who Art Laboe is....
Simón que si True that ! wow ain't that the Truth ese 😖
@@charlesbukowski9836 eye ya yai, seguro que si Raza must not forget their Cultura 🙏
1978: "when does the killing stop when does the shooting stop?"
2021: "so when does the killing stop when does the shooting stop?"
Its gotten worse
@@on_geepee Na. LA is a piece of cake today compared to 80s and 90s.
Violent crime is actually down.
Also gang bangin now in 2021 is nothing compared to how it was 20, 30 or 40 years ago
@@darienwashington482 tell that nonsense to the southside of chicago cuz they haven't got the memo
little did they know the wave of gang violence that would hit in the 80s and 90s
@@diazbrothers23 in my neighborhood and let me tell you. We grew up in south east San Diego. Logan area and my tia lived on 56th and slauson . South central and we would go visit in the late 80s and 90s. It was crazy for us 88-98
@@bruno5760 SD is a walk in the park today compared to the early 90s. Barrio Logan feels like a tourist spot today.
@@malcorub no doubt. I was born in. 77. My era was the 90s. Southeast San Diego and national city and San ysidro was a war zone back then. We lived right in the heart. When market street boys. Gamma boys and Logan were at war. And there was a shooting every night. San ysidro we got blasted on 4 times by dudes from la. Was crazy
@@malcorub I’m glad those days are over. At the time we thought it was fun. We partied in Tijuana all the time. Came back to the hood with hyenas. So
Many homies are doing life now. Or dead. I’m the lucky one that walked away. I never rolled it up or ratted on anyone. I just grew up. I still have respect everywhere I go from homies and hynas I grew up with and partied with
@@malcorub we had a lot of fun in those days but a lot of heartbreak too
This video brought back a allot of memories of my childhood growing up LA.
This is the last of the real vatos , before 💉 flooded our neighborhoods and destroyed the unity that kept them together! Great footage I love this channel🙌🕶
It used to be about community!
I was unaware of latinos shooting up heroin now.
Nah the carga was already hitting hard during this era, and long before.
Lot of PCP , heroin , cannibinal,reds , valium, qualudes , it was bad flooded with drugs all over L.A.
@@12NFLtitles you can’t be serious. Poor people and drugs go together like peanut butter and jelly
This is dope I recognize Samson from Gheraty from another interview on 60 mins. Sounds like a promo for the program tho but they look ready to go at it at anytime
This is where I was raised. You get used to the violence 365 24/7. You learn to hit the floor at a very young age..
True true
I love your channel!
I lived in Mexico in Guadalajara for 5 years and lived amongst the locals and let me tell you they all became my family. Many of them went to L.A. and back often and those people were the sweetest most loving people I have ever met. Gangs and all.
Guanatos where?? Que Colonia?
They are our neighbors and friends, not "the other" as they are treated by the twisted and the ignorant.
there's not a bunch of gangs in Mexico, that's gangland U.S.A.
UAG 🇲🇽
@@Santi-cf4rg is that in Providencia?
Brilliant, thank you.
I appreciate all your uploads. Some real shit man. Ty.✊
Awesome video as always and this video is in my favorite city and state Los Angeles California.
2 years before I was born. What a change. They are still the same clothing style in L.a , no . Time capsule. Love the music.
This is the time when you respected ladies, elders, children, and didn't Rat where did we go wrong
Well, it looks like it started in 1978
I miss the "real" free USA.
bullshit
@@Denise_Suzanne yeah the 1400s for the NATIVES of TURTLE ISLAND aka AMERIKHAN the OLD WORLD
Definitely, the fathers of two gang members fighting with a belt to the point of bleeding were stopped by their families. Two teenage girls fighting after school outside of the Parachiol School, were stopped by adults driving by. And out came Mother Superior who was ready to discipline those girls. Yes there was a lot of respect for authority.
Little did they know what the 90s would bring
I'm Puerto Rican much love too my Mexican brothers out there in east Los Angeles that gang thing has to stop all we doing is destroying one another and red man loves it.
I'm from the streets, born and raised in Sydney Australia. We thugged out here my G. Homies don't play mane
Poder latino!
@@bh2861 That's hilarious 😆 the only hard life any skin group have had on this soil & had reason to bang together are my ppl, Aboriginal Australians. Anyone else whos come here have come here from other countries that have never experienced government policies on their culture.
You all wanna take these old school gangs & push it here. Aboriginal ppl throughout this country run the jails & are the most incarcerated group still in this land.Theres noting fun & cool about poverty , drugs & violence.
We don't need Gangs here , this country has had enough violence.
If you live here in Australia, you aren't forced to gang bang, more like others are attempting to try to make gang banging work here.
Wish you could find these people now and interview them now...that would be great.
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I’m one of them SERIOUSLY
@@mrhabibi3551 who ?
You can see me in this! I'm Dee
pretty sure 90% of all these people are dead the other 10% are shooting dope under a bridge
Deputy at 31:11 is none other than Gil Carrillo, who ended up working to bring down Richard Ramirez, The Nightstalker!
This was my parents era they were in San Diego
I was born in 1980 back when vatos had self respect from there clothes to cars and there women
It was all class 😎
People eat women there too what u talking about. Now people respect more woman now and disrespect men
Me to homie march 8th 1980 and you ain't lying. Things are completely opposite now. Even ratting is excepted and a lot banger n members are even working with the cops.
@@Dirty2Clean1980Simon back in the day you drop dime you were late in a pine straight up
Thanks Hezakya this is great content
If you had put War Slipping in the Darkness or Low Rider in the intro I would've lost my mind....😂
I would’ve liked those too!!!!
Nah ! Too played out. But more fitting for sure.
@Errorh Makro Agreed! I Appreciate The Authenticity Of The Music I mean why edit this marvelous piece of history. Slipping in to Darkness and Lowrider are cool but also Played out stereo typical songs
A lot of these guys are mid or late 60s now i hope they turned their live around and are enjoying life with grandkids and family
No, most of them are too stupid. The greater number of them died to gang killings , overdoses, and lifetime incarcerations.
Hezakya , impressive knowledge on southern california hispanic street gangs ,mexican mafia is corporate and sureno gangs are franchisees , again nice discription especially you being an eastcoaster
You know I'm originally from San Diego right. Before I moved here
@@HezakyaNewz really? No wonder I saw you rocking a California hat once, hmmmm interesting how long you been out there,? Im out of the San Diego (chula vista) Go Padres
The homie with the glasses has a sleeve tattoo! That’s hardcore for the 70s.
Cool video
Amazing to see Gil Carillo in his younger days.
That who i thought it was, the work he would have on he's hands. Years later with "the night stalker"
I thought I recognized him. I watched the Night Stalker documentary.
I'm a brotha and had friends that actually lived there. Use to visit them. Rosa my friend Jaime mom used to make me Menudo. With the bone in it, was good. This was 1974 everyone was cool with each other. The show Chico and the Man was filmed in that area. Pride was all over the place. Now shit is run down and look like a bomb been dropped there. We're in our late 50's now but what great memories.
East LA looks like a bomb had been dropped there?? You're tripping bro east LA is nice compared to the ghettos in south central watts and Compton , there's a lot of home owners who take care of their lawns and houses but the kids gang bang generations of gang members but still nice looking nhood overall
Why you have to go and mention Mom's home made menudo essay! .Dam man I could go for some of Mom's Tamales right about now...Grew up on Telegraph Rd and Passons...Dad worked at 1115 S Boyle Ave....
Damn Hezakya.." this is a mean .."Mandrill Intro"..I got theAlbum this song is on🔥
I remember those time when we used to get down one o one in the proyects
What neighborhood, where you from?
always uploading the Dope
Geraldo down in the hood starting SHIT. Man was trying to talk sports but Geraldo only wants to talk gun shots. Sad that the media created the reputation of gangs and made sure violence was the only thing covered and discussed.
Doesn't look like that to me here 45:53 He is just showing people the reality.
The real shit 100% no homies using the N
back when homies loved their own culture, creating our own style, slang, clothing, attitude, rules, that was based on honor, pride and above all love for our raza… brown and proud wasn’t even a question, everyone had it
Well said
Very true all over its sad how our raza is lost embracing black styles and talk dress its sad
cállese
Thats why I had my Kids in México now the generation is messed up compared to the old times bad proud chicano style I dont have to worry about them being apart of this wierd generation
You said it man
Good flashback. Thanks.
Dang 32:00 Carlos Guzman live back in the days wow never thought I would see this again
Thank you for sharing the artist. My pops use to play bass for a group that played that kind of music. R.I.P.
Did I just see Ponch and Jon ride by ?
Those Maravilla dudes in the beginning were faded but still articulate. I can tell they'd hang out and get deep talking about neighborhood politics and economics
Good observation bro. I grew up in that and lived through that for most of my childhood and young adulthood. I used to tell folks how the homeboys from Maravilla had a whole different style and unique in their own ways. From personal knowledge and experience this was the same through out 80s, 90s, and some of the early 2000s. We stood out wherever we went and despite the hate from other neighborhoods we were respected. The homeboys had respect for innocent bystanders, kids, and local community businesses. Now things have changed how kids view gang culture and the “Chicano roots” are slowly fading away.
The office talking at 31:07 is Gil Carillo . He’s the detective that caught Richard Ramirez “the night stalker “ . Now he’s in George Lopez “omg hi “ podcast
And on Felipe Esparza's What's Up Fool podcast. The anniversary show is great!
Richard Ramirez wasn't captured by the cops, he got his ass beat by the residents of East LA.
00:50 It will seem strange especially from me being French, but the documentary at the beginning gives the impression of beautiful years of clean barrio with beautiful paintings yet violence was beautiful is present in the same way as misery alas!
one thing is about the relationships were more sincere, by networks not of internet therefore of the real relationship between men and women
Wow..I was 7 years old in 1978..This film unveiles a completely different world than now...Just breathtaking..the world we live in today doesn't seem real anymore...Thanks for sharing this forgotten reality with us....Wow, just wow.
Instead of trying to get rich, there was real opportunities in the 70's and 80's, but these guys acting a fool the whole time.
There is too much low-intelligence among these ass-clowns.
Brought back memories from when I grew up in Hawaiian Gardens back in the late 80's.
My dad took us to East LA for it's culinary delights in the early 70's.
Fun fact snowfall the tv show is filmed in this project Estrada courts
@@hazaelacuna85 YOUR SPEAKING STUPID Sir. I lived in the corner unit on the same side Olympic and Lorena side. Dude STOP! The production team is all in there. Evidently you've never been down only color matters in any hood is green!. ITS FILMED THERE and blk ppl live in there I was one of em. U wanna prove me and wrong present FACTS. Other than that stop tryin to push a bullshit narrative. I be over there Chillin wit Arturo n them in my red 84 caddy.
@@hazaelacuna85 lmaooooo now you really talking krazy just so happens i was there in the early 2k what a coincidence🤷🏾 if you don't know Arturo Alma Pete and Elle I know your irrelevant and tryin to push hate. I've been good money no extortion here buddy. I know the business folks and residents. From lorena to soto buddy. Ain't no drama over there like that stop spreading lies chump.im from the jungles but my kids are chapin I'm in east lost all the time. Apart of villagosa election camp. Yup the former mayor low rides too. Quit your woof tickets sir I didn't come for you. I spoke facts. If u wanna present facts do it or shut up
@@hazaelacuna85 yeah you appear to be seeking attention. Find a father ASAP buddy. Smh
@Mambz 323 I ain't mad at you. We did the same for training day in the Js
i like this genre of documentary or short-movies on the gangs to years 70's/80's
Me to
GOOD VIDEO FOOTAGE
Peter Santenello has a few interviews in Modern Maravilla. It's interesting to see the past and present.
That cop didn't catch night stalker he didn't catch shit people did
Look at how clean and well kept everything is compared to nowadays.
I was born two years later but this is better than pictures in the albums.
Dig your content!
You are a true historian.
Dude you’re the best. Where do you find this shit.
I want to know also!
I actually made it from scraps of out takes that never aired...I have another hour of footage I left out...will post this weekend
@@HezakyaNewz That is awesome, cannot wait to see it!
I grew up on 1st and Sunol Dr. By Obergon Park. HMV territory. My family and Will.i.am’s family were the only black families in the city. Best times of my life.
When I was just a baby, my mama told me "son"
"Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns"
JC ❤️
But I buttfucked a man in Reno, just to watch him celebrate a party for his grandfather's wedding anniversary. When that scrotum comes a swingin', I allow my balls to hang and swing and fryyyyyy!
I’ve seen this before. Ain’t it crazy how people talk about gangs “nowadays” even tho it’s always been the same shit.
Nope not at all
@@DonJulio510 gangs are still the same bruh just the style and slang thats changed 😭
@@methuser424 nope, political views have changed as well.
Have you been part of a gang,?.
Same shit different day.
This was a time where kids were excited to play kick ball or board games, now 10 year old are sexting 😢
That's crazy and sick, with a pedophile most likely to.
There were child prostitutes in the 70s working and living on the streets, no such thing as “good old days”
I like that intro song homies! Think ima use that beat and slow it down n chop it why i flow in Spanish to it que no? Make.a real banger!
the song is amazing....we should've played it when i was in marching band
Shawty Lo sampled it on his song "Dey Know"
I was 8 years old when this was filmed and i wonder how many of these people are still alive today,i imagine they would only be in thier 60's as i am 53 right now.
11:53 Man, I kinda miss those old steel Budweiser cans.
I remember hearing stories about these peace treaty Games.
They should bring them back
Google the name Jack Palomares he was a star athlete at Garfield High School and also a member of the Rock Maravilla Gang who was very influential in coordinating these games. Unfortunately he lost his life at a very young age.
“THEIRS ALWAYS GOING TO BE GANGS, BECAUSE THEIR ALWAYS GOING TO BE FIGHTING”.
Colors
@@douglasrossii4129 YOU GOT IT, THAT WAS A GREAT QUOTE.
you see vato these are my homeboys!! I love them / theyy love me back mann
True.
My family was there then and still live there I was hoping to see someone I know
5:55mins left on this video ah familiar LAPD officer Carrillo 7yrs later He arrested the one of the most infamous serial killers of the 80’s night-stalker Richard Ramirez!!!
Dang, I thought I was relating that info when I just said the same thing !.lol, you were 1st,.props
all the women are beautiful
I grew up around gangs most of my youth. Some friends joined and attempted to recruit but I never quite understood it. The way I saw it was people needed to have a sense of belonging, feeling wanted, appreciated. In school I saw the same thing everyone needed to belong, I never felt that way. I don’t understand it, I see it as a sign of weakness, I’m a one man army. I teach my kids what I’ve learned in the hopes my kids understand this world how I do. Keep yourself grounded, stay in the shadows, get that money, retire early.
*EvoSGooD* You mean stay out the shadows for the shadows is where shit pops off. As far as those wanting to feel a sense of belonging goes and being branded as weak? That's not really true to say; as there are those who want a sense of belonging to avoid letting the evils get the best of them. Like you, I grew up interacting with gang-members in the 90s/00s only to program doing 6 years at Theo Lacy, CYA, and LA Mens Central. Mind you, is how I grew up in the suburbs of South Orange County, CA. However, like I tell people..."just because someone grows up in the burbs doesn't mean the home ain't broken like most in the hood." The end result? I sought out to feel belonged, accepted, etc. Whereas, over time I ended up being put on because I was guilt through affiliation; which is how things were in the 90s/00s era. Whereas, everything else you said about keeping yourself grounded, getting money, and retiring early is and will ALWAYS be the goal. Those who get it "get it." Those who don't...will learn over time.
same here, I've never been a guy of many friends or gangs but a lone ranger and that has made me a weirdo according to some
I’m so glad I got out of East La, you don’t realize how bad it was/is u til you watch this kind of stuff.
1976 I grew up in Downey California. Which middle school I grew up with Calvin Chung and Steve Kawasaki which police would give me a hard time, if I spoke to another Mexican American, they called me a gang member. So, when they saw a Chinese, Japanese and Mexican together they aren’t a gang. I ate Chinese food and through Steve, I learned judo and kendo.. Downey California. Please visit. Portos bakery and Downey Library ❤❤❤. Today, we have a large latino community 80 percent and small korean and asian community. We are still here. White folk moved out to texas……
Downey is lame as fuck
That one vato from Arizona Maravilla on the screen shot, along with ruka. I seen in another video, that he had passed away a few years back..
What video
Mis respetos que en pas descanse we are all maravillas no matter what and we should start not fighting with each other stay up arizona
@@javierramirez721 Simón ese puro mexican pride
@@chihuasloko5707 I forgot what video it was, I'll try and look it up again.. Maravilla is a very beautiful community 🙏👍🍻🍻🍻
@@Mr-gn7yj si lo hayas me lo mandas,much love n respect for My mexican american brothers!
It's like a trip down memory lane wish I could meet the ogs
Id love to see a follow up 9n this. See how they are all doing and did this reconciliation last.
I remember those old school beer cans
We used to go to that bowling alley when we were kids,right next to a standard brands store
Lucky lanes que no?
Lucky Lanes
Where in heck was that at? In commerce center
@@misss498 Woods and Beverly