white street youth (handicap, accepted, drugs)

[Avengerfire]

^ Former horse riding girl looks familiar to me. ^

[Alacran]

Lol. That's the best title you could come up with for her.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Lol. That's the best title you could come up with for her.

I have a couple more I could use, but they can't be posted in this forum.

[Devo Hawkins]

Originally Posted by 5Lakes

Interesting read. Hard to imagine skinhead hooligans wondering around Lincoln Park and Lakeview these days. Pretty telling of how this area must have changed from 20 years ago. As a non-native I think it would have been pretty interesting to see those neighborhoods back then.

Thanks for posting that link from the Reader, it certainly explained alot about the culture. My friends and I were regular "hangouts" on Belmont and Clark from 1988 until about 2000. And we met both Dewayne and Sonny. Can't say that we were friends but the entire vibe of the neighborhood was, to say the least ..inspirational.

[Devo Hawkins]

Originally Posted by coldwine

Yeah, Medusa's was awesome. I wish they hadn't closed it

What a pity that our rebellious and tacky youth have no place to go now in the city.

That place was a regular "knock shop". I never had that much fun with girls up until we discovered Medusas.

[latikeriii]

I'm not sure of the name of the gang but on the Southeast Side in South Deering South of 99th street and east of Torrance, they had some tough white skinhead-looking dudes. Now, that area is pretty much 95% Hispanic.

[Chi-town Native]

Wild Chicago @ Punkin' Donuts, 8/31/90 (part 1)

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

Wild Chicago @ Punkin' Donuts, 8/31/90 (part 1)

Ahh the days of chain smoking and drinking coffee inside.

I see Hollis managed to run into a large group of potheads and hypes. What was the odds?

[RingWalk]

You'd be remiss not to read a book called "Lords of Lawndale" if you're trying to write anything real on about white street youth in Chicago in the 80s-early 90s. It's about kids in what we now call Logan Square growing up on the extreme margins of society and the Almighty Gaylords.

It's an extremely raw, fascinating read. Funny that neighborhood went from working poor white to Hispanic now to hipster (kinda working poor white) in 30 years.

Author writes under the name Michael Scott. It's self published. In a world of bull**** it's the real deal, take it or leave it.

[linicx]

If it is the 'real deal' that is probably why it was self-published. I don't think publishers like reality that is not sugar coated.