What's Uptown? (1981)
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- Excerpts from the documentary What's Uptown, produced by Marcie Telander and Terry Moyemont
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Chicago was a lot more interesting when it wasn't a chain filled generic City.
Lived here for 13 years since I was 18 and I 100% agree. I wish I was just a little bit older, the city looked so vibrant
Wish I had gotten to experience it. It just keeps getting worse now. All Starbucks and young professionals paying $3,000 for a one bedroom
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!
Amen had more diversity
My uncle owned a bar on foster and the hillbilly from their honky tonks causing riff raff came tricking in
Wow, haven't seen a "green limousine" in ages! Thanks for posting
I'm laughing because that's the same thing I said
Super Transfer Sunday.👍😹
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
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
So weird seeing this. I also grew up in Roscoe Village. Was back in the 80s :)
how was Roscoe village back than?
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.
Almighty North Side!!! Rogers Park
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!
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 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 .
I believe it. Every generation tends to think theirs is the craziest, but I still think we're better off now compared to then
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
Yeah but only just before Wilson, if you are headed north. Uptown still freaks me out. Won't be caught ded there fter dark.
This reminds me of the warriors so much
Except this was REALITY.
Remember "Bad Boys"? (With Sean Penn)
Reminds me of 80s cop show Hillstreet Blues great footage
It would be pretty cool if the warriors got like a sequel or prequel that took place in chicago instead of new york I would definitely watch it lol
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?
What were those years on the Northside in Chicago like?
No they are no longer there preaching.
They built a target on that corner.
Just moved here last week, and a couple days ago a street preacher carrying a cross stopped and prayed with me
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
Chicago back then it was not the color of your skin it was the block or street you lived on,
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 ,
Bob Brown it literally is now the block you lived on dumbass then it was the gang you were from
@@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
Michael Smith your wrong
Rip Pappy 😐
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.
Frank Del i went to Stewart and Brenneman, as well tough hood...
Now it’s getting fancy
that's wild. did you know it got converted to residential lofts?
I lived at 911 W. Wilson Ave. I also went to Stewart School. It is apartments (or condos) now. I remember,my friend.
@@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
If ever I would want to live in another era, it’d be this right here
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.
Now uptowns a gentrified white neighborhood. I moved out😁
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
Okay, but what's up with the white power signs?
@@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
@@itsthe773guero5 lol, when did black people start claiming it?
The green mill lounge is still there on lawrance nd broadway
the Green Mill is being there since the era of Al Capone he visited that place 😮😮
And it's still hopping.
Young pappy was gunned down two blocks from it .....due east
@@Sentientmatter8 I've gone to the poetry slam, pretty fun.
I just moved out of uptown neighbourhood (( this 40 years after this video was made )) this is awesome to watch! 2017
Uptown is now a gentrified garbage neighborhood for the wealthy.
There’s still a lot of gang banging till this day
@@user-rz9wz1bx2l Ok got it, now get over it
@@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
@@araperez4015 I am polish but grew up sureno got put on the trece young in SD north county, is woodlawn tag bangers or an established 13 gang?
My old stomping ground’s. Everything has changed so much over the years.
Lived there from 1989-1993
I miss them days
😂❤ this is back when the GLN white boys ran sunnyside & magnolia since then the stones took over
There are no Stones over here
Classic footage right here
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.
Hillbillies?
@@RazPerignoncarols honky tonk
It's true that uptown was a lot more integrated but that's largely gone with gentrification.
Thanks! I remember seeing this in the 80s and have wanted to see it again for years!
1:53 That guy can kick
🤣🤣🤣
Gang members back then were fond of learning martial arts
It was the everybody was kung fu fighting days , last dragon, mid 80s
Why was that kid holding a white power shirt next to a bunch of black people?
They didn't trip.
Because that kid stands on business 💪🏻
Bro this is awesome footage, can i use this? Ill give you credit and give you a shoutout
That's one of my brothes.doing that kick
Nice
Damn grew up n Sunnyside and magnolia. This video is how it really was.
Kook so did I i live on that mall across from the Wilson's family
9AYLORD KILLER
GAYLORD KILLER ROYALS
SCRK all day Fritz rots
Chicago's version of The Warriors 😂
The tough streets of Chicago
“There’s punks in every tribe”
Was that white guy that said that a Gaylord?
@@frankiewade2023 Yes
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.
man this brings back memories.I went to Stewart.and Arai.live on Agatite Sheridan.Clifton that's home to me.forever.#UPTOWN
What yr in arai
I graduated from Arai in 1989!
HOUUSE TWOOO!!! 😆
@@ynotspank1 house 2!!!!! 1989
My father met my mother at Wilson and Broadway she was a waitress in the al station
4848 n. Winthrop
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
@@frankdel5115 maybe I have the name wrong. It was kind of under the el tracks
@@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
@@TakataScience it was called Galaxy Gameroom
I forgot about that place. It was like off an alley. We used to buy penny candy at the store next to it. That was in 1979.
Rip young pappy king of uptown
The best
This is when poor white folks lived in Chicago... Mann, you had to be tough back in them days... tough times...
I swear Broadway looked cleaner than it does now.
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
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.
matthew mcconaughey
nice documentary
This reminds me of what that movie Bad boys (with Sean penn, NOT will smith lol) would've been based on these type of street kids. Fascinating stuff!
Funny u say that, because all of the filming outside of St. Charles was filmed in Uptown.
Some was also filmed in Lincoln Park
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.
Actually a lot was filmed in Pilsen, 18th
@@jonsmithh3827 i think there was a few shots in marshall sq too.
I live in Uptown now & this video is some crazy stuff!
Whos the boy that talks about the gang?. His hair is on point
Trevor Lawrence look a like at 2:45
Grew up in uptown, Wilson and Clarendon !! I remember the BRAZERS, and Latin Eagles!!
Wow. I live up the street from there. Actually about to throw on some clothes and head there now. Fun stuff.
we need the Black Panther Rainbow Coalition back
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.
I was trying to listen to Blondie but the guy behind him with the white power shirt was really distracting
That shirt is 🔥
Great video of social history reminds me of 80s Cop show Hillstreet blues
Gen Z could never survive in this era
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 😂
1:55 dropping the crown
You tweaking ain't no crown dropped
Iv V yes nigga look to the right
Iv V and pause the video you’ll see KK and a crown dropped
@@h-townrealtalk9498 I get you now but it looks more like a word, or the crappiest 3 crown I've ever seen. My bad for saying you tweaking lol
Iv You see KK too nigga
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 ...
mmm...40 years ago . probably dead ?? they looked old then
real talk homeboy JESUS is #1
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
How's your documentary going?
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.
Yes I am the dude in video my name is Egghead I am now 56 love in Indiana be glad to help
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So what gang were these guys from?
Gaylords.
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
👀did anybody in the comment section grow up in the vice lord neighborhood at this time?
Yes
@@i.g.manifestuniverse.6538 damn they just left yall out the interview
uptown is our town
Young pappy neighborhood
Antonio Mangual Rots
Pappy was from rogers park, he clicked with 4848 gdz but he was a pgb
@@mattbaz got his ass smoked by 4848....honestly wouldnt say they clicked....and its pbg not pgb dawg
G/L crazy for my grandma but too bad I fw the Kings
N/S Chicago 7-12 for life
STONE 9AYLORD KILLER YALL CANT EVEN TAKE BAC ADDISON STFU
@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.
George Harrison please take back Chicago. Bring back the white gangs. Shit is ridiculous bro
@@ivv6721 Stone lv v killa ! Your uncle Rots in a baby blue box
They from 63rd for sure
03:07 LOL, dude could have been a model...not gangbanger
The dude finally grew up and left chi I am still kicking
@@brianmichellebowling599 great you made it out
@@brianmichellebowling599 that’s you? Holy Moly !God bless man, I was gonna actually write “what ever happened to this guy?” Haha
@@brianmichellebowling599 were you a Gaylord? What was that like?
@@brianmichellebowling599you should make some of yout own vids bout your time in this era
It's crazy that guy had that white power shirt and the blacks didn't mind it. Totally different world
@tearthemhindpartsup maybe because people weren’t so sensitive and stuck up
They was clicked up because of gang politics
back when people isn't 😺
What's the difference between a white power t-shirt and a black lives matter t-shirt?! Nothing!
Chicago the city of gangsters
Any old time drinkers remember the wooden nickel in Uptown? Or went there? Comment or msg! Im a good friend of the Siegels
wooden nickel was roughest bar in uptown man ill never forget.....the hillbilly heaven they show here was the nickels sister bar
@@itsthe773guero5 Im very close with the owner and his family. Great guy
*Name of the banjo song?? *
holy snap I use to live on Wilson and beacon from 90 to 00 not that far away from the cleaners on that corner on the end of the video
Antonio Cuevas I live presently at Wilson and Beacon. Hopefully not for long.
I lived on Wilson & Dover in the late 70’s & 80’s! It was the slums!!! Lol
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?
@@plokzi exactly.
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My uncle's Arthur Pope and John Canata were Gaylord's Irving and California
Was that Joe Joe b?
Cool shit
I know y'all seen that lil white boy with that nazi sign on that shirt right
ayeee logan paul in the thumbnail
They 5 tho
The Gaylords definitely painted that rainbow 🌈
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
Why would it be bs? You can find many photos of GLN rocking black and blue
He said black and blue what they rep? And the black dude was a GD?
They said whites dude a Gaylord but yeah I wonder what black dude was
White boy was GL and the black stud was GD
What's off about it is the GLs were 'peoples' and GDs 'folks'. 🤔 Would have made more sense if he was a Simon city royal.
@@thomasbrown3356 this was before the alliances were formed
Is this the north side of the chi
Yeah hence why it's called UP town
The UPT before you cross MLK Blvd or Josephine
GAYLORD KILLA ROYAL LOVE DIE 5
Uptown, a north side ghetto in 2023. Lol💩
ITSSSS PAPPPPY ITTSSSS PAPPPY
F.W. Dayday fuck pappy
Das why they smoked his ass Nd his dead homies dutty rotss
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
La gangs are focused on race. How’s that better?
@@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
3:05 Almighty Gaylord Nation 9/11
Are you a Gaylord?
Crazy! Still all kinds of races lol blacks whites and Hispanics
Glad those republicans are long gone and the north side of Chicago cleaned its act up tremendously.
Still here bitch Cross is Boss
brown hippie1971 still where? You lost all your hoods. Spit on you old crackheads.
Surprised you aren’t bitching about white flight
LMAO! Chicago is circling the drain, and you commies own all that death and destruction
A lot of poor people. We have to fight capitalism!
yeah sure comrade, how's that working out for North Korea?
Was he a Royal?
Almighty gaylord
The Gaylords seem more chilled than today's Alt Right movement
That’s fact galords my friend we still are chilled lots of black and Hispanic brothers I am Egghead the blond dude
@@brianmichellebowling599 You’re guys sweaters were dope!
@@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
all these gangs were amateurs try growing up in northern ireland in the 80s 🤣🤣🤣
ireland??? ireland is soft IiI bro🤣🤣🤣🤣 safe progressive europe
@@ssk8546-6you should educate yourself
@@RazPerignon there is ZERO gang vioIence in Ireland lil bro🤣🤣one of europes safest countries
@@ssk8546-6 Northern Ireland was an actual war zone in the 80s lil guy
@@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
Still a ghetto
Mark Clark not really. Gentrification has taken hold and things are changing.
Your trippin it's 700,000$ condos and up
Man I wish I was 16-20 years old around this time. I’d straight up flourish. I’d be a Latin king
Okay Jared
You'd be with the group that runs your area it's not your choice
@@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.
You’d be too scared to walk out at night
Same here
Big O S.D.N SATAN DISCIPLE and to all my Latinos one day hopefully we will reunite as one and be bigger than them
Alex C. 24 hell zone IGSDN AMOR
And in 2016, Chicago has finally become a third-world city (uptown).
o oo .... NO!!! Not at all
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
You sound like someone who has never seen the world to try to say ANYWHERE in chicago is 3rd world...
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!
You from Wilmette or something?
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.