BARRIO SIMONS

A.k.a. The Brickyard (La Ladrillera) 1920s Simons Company Brickyard #3 Do you remember holmes, you remember them times at the village? When was it – the late twenties was it? Those were some good ole times, que no? We were poor, but we lived free and we kept it together. One big familia going through the motions, surviving all the bull shit that the man threw at us. Living the hard times, but living with a smile on our mascaras. Good folks, fine rucas, firme compas and a proud soul. Simon, they were some good old times. Just thinking back on them brings a big suspiro to my lungs and nostalgia to my mind. Man o man how times have changed. I stand here today looking at this immense concrete jungle or as some would call it – a plastic jungle – cause it’s all full of hypocrites and fakes living on credit. Selling their soul to the green devil, never much looking back to their roots, yet always, claiming to be real and claiming to be originals. But do they even know what original means? Chales, just like today’s’ plastic; the credit is taken by many but little do they know about the past that engendered them. So let me fill you up on a little bit from that past. Let me relate to you about a Barrio called Simons a.k.a. The Brickyard . . .The Brickyard was a company town over on the East Side of L.A. The boundaries of the village were Simons Street which later became known as Ford Street, Plymouth Street, Date Street, Railroad Street & Southworth Street. It was called Barrio Simons because that was the last name of the family who started out and built the simons brick company. The Barrio was situated alongside the tract of land running parallel next to the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad tracks just north of the L.A. River. Some 150 Mexican Familias at the start began their life here in the Village, living in barracks-like housing-courts; A vibrant Mexican community that went on to become very well-known all around. A clay pit area existed in this Barrio from which the clay-mud was taken from to manufacture bricks out of. This area became known as El Hoyo (The Hole), and it was here that a group of Vatos from La Ladrillera would go down to kick-back at and get all huarumos (fumed up), bien cucarachas (all roached up), this was back in the year 1919 from what I remember. You always knew where these vatos be heading, por que they will say to each other “let’s go down to the The Hole” The older folks upon seen the Boys heading down the road to the pit, knew what they were up to and you would hear them say – “ya se van de mariguanos estos chamacos, ay chingado.” The Barrio during those early years was compromised of many Mexican immigrants from the Mexican States of Guanajuato, Jalisco and Michoacan. The Simons Brickyard Company seemed to benefit out of having jente in the community that came from the same Mexican states; this was said to keep arguendes and pleitos from occurring on the regular. Everyone during those times was very jealous of keeping their barrios and jobs free from outsiders, be they from other ethnic groups; or even from other Mexicans who could compete for the jobs or the available housing. Therefore, it was imperative that all outsiders be challenged. This all changed with the wheels of time, but in the early years, that’s how it was in the Barrio. Life was hard and life was desperate for many all around, but in Barrio Simons, life was full of hope. The Barrio soon had its own Church, its own small businesses like the Botanicas and tienditas y little restaurants. Of course, most of these came after electricity came to town, before then, it was all darkness and dirt streets. But if you ask me, they were the best of times. In those days, there were no street lights, only darkness. Bonfires and dim lit kerosene lamps were the only starlight substitute to brighten up the night. Men would sit outdoors by a fogata and play their guitars, singing melancholy corridos or baladas about real personages or events, as well as about the everyday hardships which engulfed our lives. Songs full of meaning, sang out with mucho corazon. In them days, los Vatos would hang-out outdoors --after a long day’s work at the brickyard-- out in the many empty lots, or down at the pool halls. All the members of the families would be out at night. Los morros would be out playing a las escondidas (hide and seek) or la roña (tag). Los Vatos would be found sitting on porches next to las ñeras (quinceañeras) courting them under the watchful eyes of their relatives. The more adventurous ones would risk it and stroll out to the neighboring little hillsides and riversides, or if with permission – out to a dance. In the cholo-courts type housing barracks, there were more men than women. This was due to the ever increasing immigrations from unmarried men who would leave their rucas back home in Mexico until they saved up enough money to send for them and their chamacos, as well as the ever greater number of teen-age young men who made the journey alone from Tejas and Mexico. This disparity in numbers of women versus men always made for problems due to the competition for the available women. In 1912 “Monte Carmelo” Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish opened its doors in the community and on Sundays, after mandatory mass, La Raza would head out to La Laguna (The Lake) over by Laguna Road in the Montebello Park area of the Simons Company: but that could get dangerous, because even though it was on company land, the near-by residents around there where mostly white and they did not welcome greasers like us in their part of town. They lived in nice houses surrounded up with little white picket fences, living in luxury in comparison with us from the Barrio, so we had to be careful, otherwise, we faced some trouble with the white kids. The same discrimination was a factor in regards to schooling; Spanish was not allowed to be spoken in school and rarely did us Mexican kids venture out from La Vail Escuela to the white kids Greenwood School in near-by Montebello, because trouble awaited with the Anglo kids, so “there was lil’ sense in pushing the boundaries by us kids from Simon Town.” During these early years, the night parties were in reality Catholic wakes, these however became a thing of the past when electricity was brought in and radio became more and more common in homes. Radio re-developed the fiestas scene and the dancehalls as well, and soon thereafter, the dancehalls became the spots to frequent. Along with these came even more rivalry between the distant communities. Jobs became more contested between those living in Simons Village and the near-by neighborhoods from The Flats and Belvedere Gardens. The animosity between more acculturated Mexican youth and immigrants exploded to ever greater proportions, and hostility between the native & foreign born Mexicans became a real factor in many disputes and fights. It became so great that “If you were of light-skin, you were o.k. but if you were of darker complexion, then you were more prone to be racially stereotyped and discriminated against by the natives.” So much rivalry developed, that many of the baseball and sport activities sponsored by the company, turned into all out rumbles. Whenever the local Barrio Simons team played the teams from First Street or from the Eight Street neighborhoods, the Simons vatos would carry along with them bricks from the brickyard to launch at their opponents at the end of the games. The hard competition between neighborhoods went on to include everything from jobs to boxing matches, and needless to say, they went on to play out in the dancehalls on weekends. It became so that everything from parks to dancehalls became contested grounds. Soon, even the minor feuds that occurred between American-born and Mexican-born Simons brickyard workers and its youth, escalated into real discord, so much that the Vatos from the clay pit area (The Hole) below the Monterey Hills split from “las casas de arriba” – the homes up The Hill. This was cause and reason why the local youth formed a brotherhood – a club, or a gang if you must – which served as “local protection” against those from “down the hill – El Hoyo” or those from outside the brickyard, from The Flats or from El Paredon Blanco”, the cliffside neighborhood facing south west off present day Boyle Heights. It was during these times of the early 1930’S, that the Vatos from Barrio Simons ORGANIZED themselves in the same manner as many of those FROM around them. They took on rules and symbols that represented them all as one to the rest of the “outside world.” From the Brickyard, they adopted the athletic-sport team color of “Green” as well as their motto “Strong as an Ox” – this taken on account of the days when the company operated on human and animal power. They took on the club clique name of Cutdowns and the vatos became ever more tight-knight, and just like everyone else, they became “A brotherhood.” Hell man, the whole Pueblo de Simons in the early 1930’s was wholly Mexican and real tight-knit and was very traditional in the Mexican culture, so much that a father’s authority in the home was rarely questioned. The community re-enforced its Mexican culture with the observance of Mexican Holidays, the adult social-clubs sponsored patriotic parades and carnivals, and they also formed Mutual and Legal Aid Associations which groomed young people of the neighborhood in the arts of political activism. The times were changing and the population growing at an ever increasing pace. Ever since the 1920s when the Union Pacific Railroad moved into the old cornfield area north-east of La Plazita – and displaced many of the Mexican families from the Dogtown and Macy Street Barrios (some 5,000 families); the East Side of the River became ever more “contested grounds.” New neighborhoods sprang up next and all around the Lincoln Park, Palos Verdes, Ramona, Brooklyn Heights, Boyle Heights, and Belvedere Gardens communities. Soon, together, all these communities became not scattered Barrios, but an enormous sub-cultural Mexican Nation. Belvedere by the 1940s, with close to 30,000 residents, had become the home to the largest Mexican population in L.A. surpassing even the central Barrio around La Plazita. Available jobs in the brickyard and the manufacturing plants east and south of Belvedere Gardens attracted even larger numbers of Mexican families from the The Flats and the central L.A. neighborhoods, and as more and more families were displaced -at times forcibly from their homes –more of these took up on the promise by developers of exchanging their old shacks and tracts of land for new ones in “The Land of the Sunny Homes” – The MARAVILLAS (Marvelous) Homes, as they were called, on the far eastern unincorporated fringe of the city limits. Placed in a cauldron of racism, mixed-in with other immigrants of Japanese, Chinese, and Armenian, Russian Molokan or Jew ethnicity. Mexicans were forced into a stance of Cultural Self-defense. Mexicans, whether they were native-born or foreign-born, became part of the new underclass and forcibly pushed into a corner – a corner from which the only way out was to fight it out, for dignity and honor – if nothing else. Barrio Simons in time gave way to community revitalization and re-development. The houses have long ago fallen or been torn down, and the clay pit filled. The last bricks from the yard being used to build the housing projects in near-by Aliso Village, Ramona Gardens and the Pueblo Del Rio (Te Town Flats) in Long Beach; and the great well-known Brickyard boxers like Jesus “Wild Man” Macias from The Hole, and Manuel Martinez (who fought as Bert Colima II) are all but forgotten now. But the focus of social trends and issues of the day, which relied heavily on word of mouth and which were the reliable sources of local information concerning events and happenings affecting the Mexican community, remain even to this day, a product of Los Angeles Mexican heritage and identity. A cultural product of which Barrio Simons, was unequivocally a “most definite progenitor” over on Los Angeles East Side.

FIFTH & HILL STREET

FIFTH & HILL The CINCO LOMAS gang began life in the mid-70’s (est. 1975/76) in Los Angeles downtown jewelry district surrounding Pershing Square located on 5th and Hill Streets; hence the original name for the gang FIFTH & HILL. 5&H was at first not a street gang in the Chicano sense of things in those years because they were more of a Paisa Vatos Locos Cholos moving and doing things, tu sabes. They fell in line more with the (22) Border Brothers ranfla more so than with the Chicano Sureno car, and Fifth and Hill thrived under that flag because it allowed them to enhance their pipeline between the borderland town of Tijuas (Tijuana) and Los (L.A.) allowing them to grow unchallenged and un-taxed. One would ask, where did these Paisa Cholos grow up? What neighborhood they came from? Downtown LA? Really? But back in the days there was a very notorious Castle Park (Bunker Hill) neighborhood overlooking downtown’s central market barrio just up the hill from Angels’ Flight stairs on 3rd and Olive Streets. Although during its early era of the 1900’s, Bunker Hill Castle Park neighborhood was very affluent and well to do, by the 60’s and 70’s it had fallen into low costs hotels and apartment buildings. BY the mid-1970s the whole housing area had gone from White-European to Mexican. And that’s how it was in this downtown jewelry district were on the one hand you had successful middle-to-upper class Amerika being supplied for all their needs by the park paisa cholos. Everything from coca to rucas, from the Pershing Square, to Broadway, to Main Street; hence the reason they had an 8th Street Locos clique to run the nightwalkers on the Main Street strip, Fifth and Hill had the supply on lock. The gang grew into bigger and harder connects, to the point where they got a bullseye on their backs and they got hit with both local, state and federal cases. They got hit so hard that for a while the only place where you would still find them operating was at the Linea 13 and El Tango (downtown) Tijuana. But 5&H was not to be dismissed, they came back and set it off in South LA, they established themselves in the Nickerson Gardens (Bounty Hunters Bloods) projects in Watts during the start of the new millennium and have been representing their set ever since posted up as a Chicano Varrio, this time fully in line with the norm of Chicano Varrio Street politics.

VARRIO ALPINE RIFA

VARRIO ALPINE RIFA V.A.R. Est. 1890s West Side Los Angeles Although the City of Angels skyline may appear to be built atop a flat area, in fact, many low to mid-size hills (lomas) were razed to build the modern metropolis. One of the most iconic hillside areas of Los Angeles is none other than the Elysian Hills - (Las Animas, as was once oldenly known by the locals) - overlooking downtown from the north east as you come in from the river side; where Dodgers stadium sits atop crowning the city. This Stadium was opened for Play Ball in 1962, but before that took place, city planners and powers-to-be had to evict people from the 3 "east side" barrios of Chavez Ravine known as Palos Verdes (La Alpine), La Bishop, and La Loma (Solano Canyon), and these folks were promised housing in the form of the supposed "Elysian Park Heights" Housing Projects that never materialized, and after their homes had been bulldozed to make way for parking spaces and stadium roadways, they had to disperse through out; nevertheless their genealogy remains in the bloodlines of our Los Angeles ethnic ancestry and also in our neighborhoods historical folklore. In terms of Chicano Varrios Legendary Lore, Elysian Hills has produced some of the most oldest and renown, such as Echo Park, la Loma and Alpine. In this particular case, my emphasis is none other than VARRIO ALPINE RIFA which began life way back in time, way back in the late 1880's, way back when the street wasn't even called Alpine, it was named Calle de La Eternidad (Eternity Street) because it led up the hills to the cemetery; hence the name of elysian for paradise, as in rest in peace. Back in the 1880/90's all the streets of central L.A. had diff names, like Calle Principal became Main Street, Fortin became Broadway, Calle Primavera was Spring Street, Calle Roma became Hill, Calle Esperanza became Hope, and Figueroa was called Calle de Los Chapulines for the grasshopper filled hills, so on and so forth. Alpine was said to have started out with the name of Billy's Hill gang in the neighborhood which in those times was known as Palos Verdes, quien sabe? Alpine Street was early on documented in Los Angeles newspapers and police records as a mixed ethnic boys gang, which included Italians, Irish and Mexicans. Alpine beefed it with other gangs from around like from Sonoratown, Dogtown, and Frenchtown. By the Roaring 1920's, the Alpine neighborhood boys had began to transform into the new street gang style, and it was straight up older veteranos of the old crowd in their age of twenties from around the vicinity of Alpine and Cleveland Streets who officially took the gang into the pachuco (folk devil) zoot suit era of the 1930's. The White-Anglo society used the term folk devils because it was said that the only angels in L.A. were fallen angels - puro diablos pachucos. In the mid-1930's, somebody, in a terrorist act, is said to have burned down the old Chinatown which was located just east of La Plazita Olvera on Alameda, where later they built Union Station over it, and afterwards the Asian folks were relocated to nearby Little Italy and Sonoratown where over time they began to displace and outgrow the other ethnic groups in the area, including los vatos locos de La Alpine. In 1939, Alpine is documented as having taking full part in what were termed as the Happy Valley Gang Wars, recorded together with all the other olden barrio gangs from around. Alpine used to get it on heavy with vatos from Dog Town, from La Macy, from La Temple, from La Clanton y La Clover. In the summer of 1943, los vatos from La Alpine set it off with what has historically been erroneously termed as the zoot suit riots (read about it). The Alpine gang at this time had already different sets within, some referred to them as the Lower and Upper Alpines, and each had their own sub-sets. The Lower Alpines were centered around Alpine and Beaudry Avenue, and the Upper Alpines were centered at Alpine and Bartlett Street. By the end of the 40's decade the cruising at Whittier Blvd in East LA was already happening, and Alpine was there, together with raza from all over, from La Mateo, La Hunter, Los Flats and so many more. La Alpine continued making headlines and made the big ranks in Mexican Mafia (Sureno) politics, going through the motions and doing heavy things through the 1950's and 60's. But by the end of the 1970's, their numbers had began to be affected by the large influx of Asians to the neighborhood. Law enforcement also put a bulls eye on their backs, since they were still very notorious, and also one of the last original gangs in L.A., but k.i.a's, incarceration's, dope, gentrification, and so many other factors took a toll on the varrio, and by the mid-1980's, it had ceased to be a force to be reckoned with on the streets. By the 1990's, they were few still living in the neighborhood, their last documented fallen one is recorded as an unidentified veterano with VARRIO ALPINE tattooed on his stomach, found murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 2012. Their old varrio is today referred to as China Town and it's now controlled by an Asian gang called Oriental Lazy Boys. It is tough to see or hear about an old barrio going by the wayside, especially one with so much history like ALPINE STREET. Con Todo Respeto

VARRIO IRIS AVENUE

VARRIO IRIS AVENUE 13 INSANE FAMILY

-a fictional story-

I DON'T KNOW NADIE FROM IRIS AV PERSONALLY, SO I'M JUST TRYING TO POST SOMETHING UP HERE IN THE SOUTH SIDE HISTORICAL RECOGNITION PAGES. WHEN I FIRST HEARD OF IRIS AVENUE WAS SOMETIME BACK WHEN I'D RIDE THE TROLLEY LINE FROM SIDRO TO WOP TOWN AND VISIT MY FAMILY. THEN LATER WHEN I MOVED DOWN TO THE SOUTH BAY, I STARTED HEARING STORIES OF THEM IRIS AVENUE LOKOS RIDING HARD. FROM THEN UNTIL NOW, I KEEP HEARING THE SAME, EITHER OLD STORIES OR NEWER TAG-BANGING. IRIS IS STILL THERE IN IT'S ORIGINAL GROUNDS FOR SURE.

VARRIO IRIS AVENUE 13 INSANE FAMILY I’VE READ HAD IT’S BEGINNINGS WITH A CRAZY CROWD FROM THAT SAME GENERAL AREA THAT WENT BY THE NAME OF FCW (FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD). FCW WAS THERE IN THOSE GROUNDS SINCE BACK IN THE 1980’s. FCW OG’s ARE SAID TO HAVE COME FROM OR HAD CONNECTS WITH THE WORLD-WIDE FCW CHAPTERS FROM CHICAGO, NEW YORK, MIAMI, SEATTLE, LOS ANGELES, AND THEN FCW LANDED HERE IN SAN DIEGO’s SOUTH SIDE IRIS AVENUE NEIGHBORHOOD. FCW WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE UP OF ALL RAZAS; PUERTO RICANS, CHICANOS, NEGRITOS, PINOYS AND HUEROS. OVER TIME THIS DIDN’T FLY WELL IN THE CHICANO WORLD POLITICS FOR A VARRIO IN THIS PART OF TOWN, SO THAT FCW HAD TO BE PUT BY THE WAYSIDE,AND THEN VIA ROSE UP IN ITS PLACE AS A FULL-FLEDGED SURENO VARRIO IN THE 1990s.

IRIS AVE NEIGHBORHOOD IS SMALL IN COMPARISON TO ALL THEIR ENEMIES AROUND LIKE DEL SOL TO THEIR EAST (ON THE EAST SIDE OF BEYER BLVD), SIDRO TO THE SOUTH (SOUTH OF THE 905), AND NESTOR TO THE WEST (WEST OF THE I-5). VARRIO IRIS AVENUE MORE OR LESS FALLS IN-BETWEEN ALL THOSE SMALL STREETS BOUNDED BY THE TROLLEY/TRAIN TRACKS ON THE EAST, THE 905 FREEWAY ON THE SOUTH, AND CORONADO AVENUE TO THE NORTH. IT’S A SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH HAS SEVERAL MOBILE HOME PARKS AND APARTMENT COMPLEXES NEXT TO SOME STREETS WITH SINGLE HOME RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND THE SAN DIEGO PD SOUTHERN DIVISION RIGHT DEAD SMACK IN THE MIDDLE., SO MAYBE THAT’S HOW COME THEY HAVE PEOPLE FROM ALL THE RAZAS LIVING HERE. IT’S A POOR NEIGHBORHOOD SURROUNDED BY THE FREEWAYS AND BUSINESS PARKS AND WAREHOUSING BUILDINGS. BUT THIS IS WHERE IRIS AVENUE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVES ON.

NO DISRESPECT TO NESTOR 19 ST, THE VARRIO IMMEDIATELY TO THEIR WEST, WHO SOME PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE THAT IRIS AVENUE IS PART OF THEIR ZONE, HOWEVER THAT IS NOT ENTIRELY CORRECT. WHAT I MEAN IS THAT WHILE ON THE CITY MAPS TRACT, THE COMMUNITY OF NESTOR EXTENDS ALL THE WAY TO THOSE SAME IRIS R&R TRACKS, HOWEVER, THE NESTOR “VARRIO GANG” HAS NEVER EVER EXTENDED THAT FAR EAST PAST THE 5 FREEWAY. THEREFORE NO, IRIS AVENUE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS NEVER EVER BEEN PART OF VARRIO NESTOR.

THE IRIS NEIGHBORHOOD GREW UP IN THE 1970’s, THAT’S WHY SAN DIEGO CITY PLANNERS DECIDED UPON AN IRIS TROLLEY STATION THERE IN 1981 INSTEAD OF ON CORONADO AVENUE. THAT’S HOW MUCH THAT NEIGHBORHOOD GREW UP AND THEN THE WHOLE CRAZYNESS IN THAT AREA BLEW UP IN THE 1980’s WITH FCW AND OTHERS LIKE IDM AND UBC, PLUS THE SYCO POSEE ALL BEING AROUND THERE OR GOING TO SCHOOL RIGHT THERE AT IRIS AT SOUTHWEST JUNIOR HIGH (DEFUNCT). SOME FCW, IDM, UBC EVEN STARTED GOING BY THE NAME “INSANE FAMILY” A NAME WHICH SURVIVES IN THE VIA13 INSANE FAMILY CLIQUE NAME OF THE 1990’s. NOW IT’S BEEN 3 DECADES AND IxA IS STILL STANDING ON THOSE GROUNDS.

I WISH I HAD MORE TO ADD, BUT LIKE I SAID, I DON'T KNOW ANYONE FROM IRIS, BUT I DO HEAR THAT THEY ARE A SMALL BUT TIGHT-KNIT CLAN.

ORALE, PROPS TO VARRIO IRIS AVENUE 13 INSANE FAMILIA


CON RESPETO
LW

VARRIO DEL SOL 13

VARRIO DEL SOL RIFA

-a fictional story-

A.k.a. DEL SOL 13

Established? From the late 1960’s / early 1970’s.

Old Bandana color: Amarillo

Logo: Sol Azteca

Cliques:
Sun City Locos
Del Sol Riders
Dead Ends Locos
Vagos
Malos
Apartment Boys
Ruff City Locos


Zone / Territory

DEL SOL BARRIO IS AT THE CROSS-ROADS OF SOUTH SAN DIEGO. IT IS LOCATED RIGHT IN-BETWEEN ALL THE OTHER MAJOR COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY. CHULA VISTA AND OTAY TO THE NORTH; IMPERIAL BEACH, NESTOR AND PALM CITY TO THE WEST; SAN YSIDRO TO THE SOUTH, AND OTAY MESA TO THE EAST. SO, IF YOU WANT TO GET AROUND FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER VIA THE STREETS DOWN HERE, IT WILL MORE THAN LIKELY TAKE YOU THROUGH SOME OF DEL SOL’S STREETS.

THE MAIN CORE OF DEL SOL VARRIO RUNS PARALLEL ALONG THE STRETCH OF DEL SOL BLVD, FROM THE 805 FREEWAY ON THE EAST ALL THE WAY TO BEYER BOULEVARD ON THE WEST, AND FROM THE 905 FREEWAY ON THE SOUTH ALL THE WAY NORTH TO PALM AVENUE. THAT’S A REAL NICE CHUNK OF TERRITORY WHICH DEL SOL CONTROLA! BUT IN THIS LARGE ZONA THERE’S MORE THAN A FEW LITTLE STAND-ALONE SECTIONED OFF NEIGHBORHOOD AREAS, WHICH IF THESE WERE LOCATED ANYWHERE ELSE, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE IN LA, OR IN SOUTHEAST SAN DIEGO, EACH ONE OF THOSE LITTLE AREAS COULD EACH HAVE EASILY BEEN VARRIOS OF THEIR OWN.

DEL SOL ZONE NEIGHBORHOOD IS A MECCA FOR PARTIES; THERE’S ALWAYS SOME BORLOS GOING ON IN THAT ZONE. MAYBE THAT’S WHY THERE’S SO MANY WRITER KREWS ALWAYS BOMBING AROUND THERE AS WELL, AND DON'T FORGET ~> DEL SOL’s NEIGHBORHOOD IS ALSO HOME TO OUR OTHER BROWN RAZA ~> THE PINOYS ADDING THEIR OWN FLAVOR AS WELL.

OVER TIME, A LOT OF PEOPLE TRYING TO CLAIM THIS OR THAT HAVE COME AND GONE FROM THESE TERRENOS, BUT IT WAS SIMPLE MATH; IF THEY GREW UP AMONG DEL SOL, THEN THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY GET FOLDED INTO DEL SOL, BUT IF NOT, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET EVICTED, BUT FOR THE MOST PART IT WORKS JUST LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE AND JUST LIKE IN EVERY OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN A YOUNG CROWD, A TAGGER KREW, A LOKOS CLIKA Y WHOMEVER ELSE ~> THEY EVENTUALLY GET BROUGHT INTO THE LOCAL OLD VARRIO OR ELSE; YA SABES!

FOR EXAMPLE, THE ONCE UPON A TIME STAND ALONE RUFF CITY 13, FORMERLY A TAGGER CLIQUE BORN IN THE 1990’s KNOWN THEN AS THE SOUTH SIDE ROUGHNECKS, A.k.a. ROUGH RIDERS. BUT THEN SSR FORMALIZED AND STARTED BANGING AS THE RUFF CITY LOCOS AROUND THE YEARS 2000/2001. RCLS THEN GOT NUTTIER AND STARTED HAVING SOME MAD PLEITOS WITH DEL SOL AND WITH THE PALM CITY LOCOS, AS WELL AS WITH THE CRAZY ASS (LATINOS) LOCOS. SOMETIME AFTER ALL THOSE BEEFS STARTED HAPPENING ON THE REAL, THEY GOT THE GREEN LIGHT AND WERE BLESSED WITH THE 13 TO BECOME FULL-FLEDGED SOUTH SIDERS. A FEW YEARS LATER RC13 CLIQUED UP WITH DEL SOL AND FOR A TIME THEY WOULD HIT UP THE WALLS TOGETHER, BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED AND THEY WENT AT IT AGAIN WITH EACH OTHER; YOU COULD EVEN READ IT ON THE WALLS WITH THEM BOTH CROSSING EACH OTHER OUT ON THOSE VERY SAME WALLS ON WHICH JUST RECENTLY BEFORE, THEY HAD BEEN HITTING UP TOGETHER. THEN ALL THAT SEEMS TO HAVE GOTTEN SQUASHED AND RC13 WAS BROUGHT BACK INTO DEL SOL, BUT AS A CLIQUE THIS TIME. ONE THING IS FACT FOR SURE, AND THAT IS THAT RUFF CITY IS TECHNICALLY WITHIN DEL SOL’s TERRITORY (EAST OF PICADOR BLVD, ALONG DEL SOL BLVD), THEREFORE IT WAS LOGICAL FOR THE ONCE ROUGH RIDERS TO HAVE EVOLVED WITH THE TIMES, GOING ON THROUGH THE PAINS NECESSARY AND FINALLY SETTLING DOWN AS THEE NOTORIOUS DEL SOL 13 RUFF CITY LOCOS CLIQUE, SO I'VE HEARD.

NO DOUBT AT ALL THAT DEL SOL MUST BE ONE OF THE MOST CONSISTENT ACTIVE VARRIOS IN THE STREETS OF SOUTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Y TAMBIEN ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC WALL WRITERS. I THINK, NEXT TO OTAY X3, SIDRO AND OTNC, DEL SOL NEVER STOPS HITTING UP THE WALLS. EVERYWHERE YOU GO YOU’RE BOUND TO SEE FRESH NEW DEL SOL HIT UPS, AND IF YOU RIDE THROUGH AND STRIKE UP YOURS, BE TRUCHA BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW; AT THE VERY LEAST, REST ASSURED THAT YOURS WILL BE CROSSED OUT BY THE NEXT MORNING. THAT’S HOW MUCH DEL SOL PATROLS THEIR ZONE, AND WELL, THE NEWS WHICH ARE ON THE HISTORY PAGES TELLING THE TALES OF SOME OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS DEL SOL HOMEBOYS IN RECENT DECADES IS VERY WELL DOCUMENTED ALREADY, SO THERE’S NO NEED TO GET INTO ESA CONVERSACION RIGHT HERE, I THINK (?) BUT FOR HISTORY PURPOSES, ORALE PUES ESE, IF YOU WANT, PONLE! OTHERWISE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE VARRIO HISTORY IS MUCH APPRECIATED.

ANYWAYS, THERE’S A LOT OF DOWN FIRME RAZA IN DEL SOL, AND IT IS A WELL RESPECTED VARRIO AMONG DIEGO's SOUTH SIDERS. FACT!


CON RESPETO;
LW

..ey man, don't hate, simply educate !!!

BARRIO RED STEPS

BARRIO RED STEPS

BARRIO LOGAN aka BARRIO RED STEPS is what the West Side of the Chicano Community of Logan Heights is called.

Barrio Logan Red Steps was split off from the rest of LOGAN HEIGHTS when Interstate 5 was constructed and divided the community in two halves.

El Barrio Logan is home to the Logan Heights RED STEPS Ganga, which is a clika of the much larger BARRIO LOGAN HEIGHTS GANG. In addition to the Red Steps clique, LH in present times is composed of the cliques LH30TA, LH33RD, LH13LS and the LH Clika located in East Side San Diego. Another prior olden times clika were the LH32 Luckys which is no longer active.

Barrio Logan Red Steps had its origins with an earlier gang named LOS CHERRIES way back in the 1950s. Los Cherries took their name from some big ass painted Red Steps of this huge house which used to be on the north side of Island Avenue, between 24th & 25th Streets. This house with the painted red steps was located in the area where today’s current pedestrian sky-bridge crosses-over Interstate 5, between Logan Avenue & Crosby Street (re-named Cesar Chavez in 1995).

When Interstate 5 was built in 1963, the house & the Steps were torn down; nevertheless, the new 1960s generation of Cherries adopted the name Red Steps for their new Clika as the older generation of Cherries faded into history.
By the time when Chicano Park was created in 1969/70, the Red Steps clika had long before already become fully incorporated into the united Barrio Logan Heights Gang. This Greater LHTS Gang by uniting over the years between the late 1950s & early 1960s, all the gangs in the area like Los OSOS, Los LOBOS, Los CHICANOS, Los COYOTES and Los CHERRIES; created One United LH Barrio. . . (Note: In the middle of Chicano Park today, there is a mural that reads “BARRIOS UNIDOS LOGAN”. This is said to be in reference not so much as to Chicano Barrios in general, but more indicative of Logan’s UNITED Varrios). The old Cherries Gang thus gave way to the new LH Red Steps clika which has remained named as such onto present times, and it also has become one of the strongest Gang-Cliques all around. The RED STEPS have with time, added a new younger sub-clique to their ranks called Chicano Park Boys (CPB) and their confederates, the Feeling So Irie Boys Krew (FSI).

The RED STEPS Barrio is concurrent with the boundaries of Barrio Logan itself; the boundaries being one and the same; 16th Street/Commercial Street to the north, 32nd Street to the south, Harbor Drive/Old 101 Highway to the west and Interstate 5 to the east. The Red Steps Barrio is also home to the well-known famed Chicano Park (CP aka CHP) which was built right under the Coronado Bay Bridge (constructed in 1969/70). Chicano Park criss+crosses the RS neighborhood through several streets, semi-dividing the Barrio in half with its many bridge concrete pillars.

This is a small story of Barrio Logan Heights Red Steps as has been understood by yours truly in small-talk conversations here and there, as well as from the received input from some of you out there. I hope that Homies from Logan can visit with us on the Brown Kingdom and speak for themselves as to their history and correct me on any honest mistakes committed.

QUE VIVA EL
BARRIO LOGAN
RED STEPS
POR VIDA
CON SAFOS!

SAN DIEGO VARRIOS

SAN DIEGO VARRIOS

SY ~ SYR
SAN YSIDRO
A.k.a. “SIDRO”
Klikas . . .
Coachmen
Enanos
Villa Locos
Locotes
Tiny Locos
Lil Locos
Malos
Boys

Note: For some of SIDRO's history read up on the March 17, 2007 "Archives".

IMP ~ IMP13
IMPERIAL 13
A.k.a. Imperials
Klikas . . .
Dukes
Rascals

BWL ~ BWLS
BRANDYWINE LOCOS

O13 ~ OX3 ~ VLO
OTAY 13A.k.a. Varrio Loco Otay
Klikas . . .
Yatos
Del Sol Riders
River Bottom Locos
Montgomery Locos
Rasta Locos

DS ~ DSR ~ DS13
DEL SOLKlikas . . .
Vagos
Malos
Dead Ends
Riders Locos
Sun City Locos

RC ~ RCLS ~ SSR
RUFF CITYA.k.a. South Side Roughnecks
A.k.a. Rough Riders

CALS
Crazy Ass Locos

PALS
Palm Avenue Locos

PALS
Palm City Locos

FH ~ PC ~ PC’FH
PALM CITY FROM HELL
A.k.a. Familia Hispana
Klikas . . .
Locos

VLPR
LAS PALMAS
Varrio LAS PALMAS was an old varrio located in the South San Diego neighborhood of Palm City. The old varrio extended south of the Otay River marshland area, all the way to Coronado Avenue, centered around Palm Avenue and Harris Avenue. The neighborhood once reached as far west to 19 Street (present day Saturn Blvd). The old varrio was in time first broken up with the construction of Interstate 5, which was built right through the middle of the neighborhood and sliced it up into two halves. The western part of the varrio (west of I-5) was almost completely torn down and new development was raised up. Then when the San Diego Trolley line was built, another chunk of its neighborhood was destroyed. The Trolley line itself cut the varrio in half again. On the east side of the tracks new housing now stands. But on the west side of the tracks there still remains plenty of unpaved (dirt) streets even to this day. South of Palm Avenue the grounds there exhibit a mix of older homes and newer apartment buildings south along the back streets from Harris Avenue. Varrio Las Palmas survived all the way up to the very early 80s, but it has now given way to the younger generation of Raza that claims Palm City From Hell (Familia Hispana). In its final days, one could see nice firme big block Old Stilo Placasos on the walls as you rode past on the freeway or the trolley line. Further south along the 19 Street neighborhood, west of the I-5, La Raza gave birth to the Varrio NESTOR 19ST, in what was once inhabited by vatos that claimed South San Diego. From west of the I-5 and south of Palm Avenue, Varrio NSTR (Nestor Nineteenth STreet Rifa) governs the land.

NST ~ NSTR ~ NST19
NESTOR 19 STREET

VIA
Varrio Iris Avenue

DML
DAIRY MART LOCOS

SSD ~ DX3 ~ D13 ~ DBS
SOUTH SIDE DIABLOSA.k.a. Chamukos

VCV
VARRIO CHULA VISTA
Klikas . . .
Grande Locos
Tiny Locos
Tiny Gangsters
E STreet
G STreet
H STreet
K STreet

South Bay 13

WSLS
WEST SIDE LOCOS

YESCA 13
You have to go back in time to remember the vatos that claimed YESCA 13. Back in the mid to late 70s these vatos where claiming ESxNC. They had their spot just north of the ACRE BOYS and west of PARADISE HILLS, over by Lanoitan Avenue. I don't think they're around anymore.

ES’NCLS
East Side NATIONAL CITY LOCOS

OTNC
OLD TOWN NATIONAL CITY
Klikas . . .
Gatos
Night Owls
Anchor Boys
Olden Boys
Enano Boys
Latino Boys
Insane Boys ~> broke off.

IBS ~ WS’NC
INSANE BOYS
A.k.a. West Side National City

BBS ~ NC’BBS
BLOCK BOYS
(Alta Vista neighborhood)

ABS
ACRE BOYS
(Lincoln Acres)

ALLEY BOYS
(Norton Avenue Boys)

SSC
SOUTH SIDE CRIMINALS

NC MOB 13
NATIONAL CITY MOB 13
A.K.A. South Side Mob 13

MB13 ~ MBLS
MISSION BAY LOCOS
Klikas . . .
Grand Avenue Boys
Delrey Street Boys
132 Dead End
Hazard
The Magicians Club

CMR ~ CLMT WEST CLARAS
(Clairemont)

LV13 ~ LVR ~ VLV
VARRIO LINDA VISTA
Klikas . . .
Morley Street
Rascals
Peewees
Riders
Tiny Locos

WT ~ WxT
WOP TOWN
Klikas . . .
Krazies
Amici Park

OTSD
OLD TOWN SAN DIEGO

LM26 ~ GH13
LOMAS 26 STREETA.k.a. Golden Hill
Klikas
Locos (The Alley)
XVI STreet
XVIII Sreet
XXX STreet
Juniors (Chicos)
Dukes
Malditos

Note: For some of LOMAS history, read up on the March 2, 2006 "Archives".

SM ~ VSM ~ BSM
BARRIO SHERMANA.K.A. Sherman Heights
Klikas . . .
27 STREET
20 STREET
Grant Hill Park Locos

Note: For some of SHERMAN's history, read up on the March 10, 2006 "Archives".

SE13 ~ SESD
SOUTHEAST 13
A.k.a. South East San Diego

ESD ~ ESSD
EAST SIDE SAN DIEGOA.k.a. East Side Diego
Klikas . . .
Gatos
Rascals
Chicos
Dead End Locos
AEK
Avenue Euclid Klika
EBS ~ EBK
Evil Boys Klika

East Side 27 Street Locos

JRS ~ JRS13
JUNIORS

VC13
VARRIO CHOLLAS 13

VM ~ VMS ~ VML ~ VMP
VARRIO MARKET STREETKlikas . . .
Locos
Peewees

VEL ~ ENC13
VARRIO ENCANTO LocosA.k.a. Encanto Heights

LH ~ LHTS
LOGAN HEIGHTSKlikas . . .
Red Steps
A.k.a. Barrio Logan30’TA
33 STreet
35 STreet
13 Locos
LH CLIKA (East Side)
Old . . .
32 LUCKIES
Cherries
Chicanos
Osos
Lobos
Coyotes
Toros

Note: For some of the RED STEPS history, read up on the March 4, 2007 "Archives".

32ND STREET “TOKERS”

LVR ~ LV13 ~ LV70 ~ ESL
LOMITA VILLAGEA.k.a. Lomita Varrio 70
(East Side Lomita)
Klikas . . .

PH ~ PHR ~ PH13
PARADISE HILLS

LG13 ~ VLG
VARRIO LEMON GROVE

OPLS
OAK PARK LOCOS

AZN ~ CHTS
AZTEC NATION(City Heights)
Klikas . . .
Van Dyke Boys

VST ~ STR ~ ST38
SHELL TOWNKlikas . . .
Gamma Boys
38 STreet

DSL
DIVISION STREET LOCOS

SVL
SPRING VALLEY LOCOS

EL CAJON DUKES

EL CAJON LOCOS

PSL ~ PZL ~ VPL
VARRIO POSOLE
Varrio POSOLE, sometimes spelled Pozole, is a real old varrio that dates back to the 1920s. This varrio is well known and heard about through out Califas and in la torcida. Posole is said to be in their sixth or seventh generation of vatos representing their terreno. From old times the initials for the varrio were PSL and PZL, but in these later tiempos the initials VP, VPL and VPLS for Varrio Posole Locos are being used. The olden varrio is located right before you hit Camp Pendleton, immediately east of Interstate 5 and north of Mission Avenue; just south of the old San Luis Mission Road (present day 76 Expressway), centered around Balderama Park. Their borders today can be said to extend all the way south to Oceanside Blvd, and east all the way to Mesa Road. Posole claims East Side because they are in what back in them times was considered the east side of Oceanside.


TCS ~ CSG
TWENTY CENTER STREETA.k.a. Center Street Gang

SOUTH SIDE OCEANSIDE

VST ~ VSL
VARRIO SUREñO TOWN
A.k.a. Varrio Sureño Locos

EAST SIDE OCEANSIDE(Crown Heights)

PPLS
POCOS PERO LOCOS

LOS JOKERS

WOS
WICKED OCEANSIDE SUREñOS

TRI-CITY LOCOS

EG
EDEN GARDENSA.k.a. La Colonia

EF
ENCINITAS FLATS

ENC13
ENCINITAS 13South Side Locos

CBR ~ CBLS ~ CLS
CARLSBAD LOCOS

SSV
SOUTH SIDE VISTA

VH ~ VHB
VISTA HOMIESA.k.a. Vista Homeboys

SM ~ VSM
VARRIO SAN MARCOSKlikas . . .
Wolfpack

SL ~ SxL
Varrio SOUTH LOS

FBLS ~ VFLS
VARRIO FALLBROOK LOCOS

VM ~ VML
VARRIO MESA LOCOS

TH
THUNDER HILLS

EVD
ESCO VIEJO DIABLOS

ESCO SANTOS

VCG
VALLEY CENTRO GANG

WSG
WEST SIDE GANG

AVL
ALPINE VARRIO LOCOS

SANTEE ORIGINALS

VPL
VARRIO PEñASQUITOS LOCOS

Note: The San Diego Varrios and their Clikas
are listed in order to give recognition to them.
The list may not be 113% correct, therefore I
apologize for any mistakes made, for it is not
my intent to diss anybody or clown around. . .
Si salio mal esta madre, pues ponle unas letras
aqui ese.. Nobody knows it better than your own,
asi es que no cagues el palo and if you care to,
pues dejate caer con un aliviane ~ keep in mind~>
~> "Don't Be A Net'Banger" . . . This sitio ain't
made for that ese . . . So keep it level minded.

LOMITA VILLAGE 70

LVR ~ LV13 ~ LV70

LOMITA VILLAGE 13

A.k.a. Lomita Varrio 70



LOMITA VILLAGE

LVR ~ Lomita Village Rifa.. The “R” is not used regularly in order to avoid confusion with Linda Vista Rifa

LV13 ~ Lomita Village 13.. The “Varrio” started out in the late 1950s, hence the “13”

LV70 ~ Lomita Village 70.. Sometimes referred to as Lomita Varrio Setentas

LV gets its name straight off from the community in the far East Side of San Diego, located..

N) Jamacha Road
S) Skyline Drive
W) Meadowbrook Drive
E) Billow Drive

The heart of the Varrio is Lomita Park

Lomita Village presently claims “SOUTH EAST” because the neighborhood is located in the southeastern part of San Diego’s greater east side.






Original veteranos cliques from the L V

BASTONES ~ 1950s-1960s
DUBONETTS ~ 1950s-1960s
JURYMEN ~ 1960s

The Jurymen were the last of the old clubs from Lomita.
All the original cliques each used to sport their clique name on their club jackets together with the neighborhood name.

LV13 put in mad work since the late 50s, and the two decades prior to the 7’Os. Contrary to popular belief, LV13 & LV70 are not synonymous. In fact, Setentas is a “clique” from LV13. The 7’Os were sparked up by some vatos from Comptone Varrio 70 who were from the Lomita neighborhood and mixed in. LV13 and LV70 at one time did not even get along that much, but in 1978 an LV13 homeboy wasted a jura, and that brought down the heat on the varrio. Things got real hot and homies were getting torcidos and sent up to do long sentences. Right around that year is when the 7’Os Chicos started putting in work together with the LV13 Diablos & LiL Spiders. As time went by, more and more LV13 homeboys were either getting smoked, locked up or going into retirement, and so the youngsters kinda forgot about the older gente, but the Chicos kept the Village on deck. Eventually the LV13 kinda took a back seat to the LV70, but don’t let that confuse you because there’s still plenty of LV’s that don’t claim 70s. There’s stil homies around that claim LV13 NOMAS! And just to re-iterate what has already been said, the LV oldie cliques never claimed LV70, PERIOD!

LV ~” SUNNYSIDE BLOCK “~ 13
BUSTER DANNY’BOY DOC PANCHO MUGS BUCK
BOYKINS SOLDIER FAT’RAT ARDILLA BIG’BEN






Mas LV cliques:

MIDGETS LV13
SPIDERS LV13
LIL’ SPIDERS LV13
DIABLOS LV13
CHICOS (7’Os)
JUNIORS (7’Os)
RASCALS LV70
DEMONIOS LV70
TRAVIESOS LV70
MALOS LV70

Nevertheless, it is all together the LOMITA VILLAGE hood
REPRESENTING from Donovan to Pelican Bay!

Lomita Village has siempre pleito with
Varrio Encanto to the west,
Lemon Grove to the north,
Paradise Lomas to the south,
and Spring Valley Locos to the east.

VARRIO MISSION BAY 13

Moto: “LIVE FOR THE MISSION, DIE FOR THE BAY”

Also known as “THE BAY” & “WEST BAY”

Claims: WEST SIDE SAN DIEGO

Initials: VMB and MB13

Numerical Initials: “13’02”

Lids: Western Michigan University for Mission Bay
And the Green Bay Packers for Thee Grand Avenue

Cliques
MB HAZARD – Late 1960s / Early 1970s
MB LS (LOCOS) – Late 1970s (1979)
MB GD’AVE (GRAND AVENUE BOYS) – Early 1970s
MB DE (132 DEAD END BOYS) – Early 1970s
MB TMC (THE MAGICIANS CLUB) – Late 1970s
MB DR’ST (DELREY STREET BOYS) – 1990s
MB B’ST (BOND STREET BOYS) – 1990s
MB B'R (BAY RIDERS) – 1990s

Old Neighborhood:
MB Varrio is located in a triangular shaped area bordered by..
(N) Balboa Avenue
(S) Grand Avenue
(E) Interstate 5



VARRIO MISSION BAY IS TECHNICALLY WITHIN THE SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY OF “PACIFIC BEACH” WHICH SURROUNDS THE FIRME LOOKING MISSION BAY PARK ON IT’S NORTHERN SHORE BORDERS.

VARRIO MB IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN KICK STARTED BY HOMEBOYS FROM LA BIG HAZARD DE RAMONA GARDENS EAST LOS BACK IN THE LATE SIXTIES.. BACK IN THEM YEARS, THE BARRIO ALREADY HAD PLENTY OF RAZA IN THE LOCAL STREETS, BUT THEM WERE DIFFERENT TIMES AND THE FULL IMPACT FROM THE VARRIO WORLD HAD YET TO TAKE ROOT. THAT’S HOW “MISSION BAY HAZARD” CAME TO BE SET UP IN THE BAY.

LA RAZA FROM MB BACK THEN HAD IT COOL WITH THE NEIGHBORS FROM VARRIO CLARAS (CLAIREMONT) JUST FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FREEWAY. THE VATOS FROM CLARAS USED TO COME DOWN AND KICK IT WITH THE LOCALS AT “THE COURTS” (ROSE CREEK BASKETBALL COURTS) LOCATED BY BOND STREET UNDERNEATH THE GRAND AVENUE PUENTE.

PRIMERO, THAT’S HOW THE VATOS FROM MB AND CLARAS GOT ALONG, AND ANY PLEITO BETWEEN THEM WAS HANDLED THE MAN’S WAY, A PUROS CHINGADAZOS. THAT OF COURSE WAS THE WAY, UNTIL CUETES AND FUSCAS GOT INTRODUCED, AND FROM THEN ON, BLOODSTAINS ON THE CONCRETE IS HOW THE RIVALRY ENDED UP TURNING INTO.



THE COURTS WERE ONE OF THE HANG OUTS FOR MB RAZA, BUT THERE WERE OTHER ONES. ANOTHER OLD SCHOOL HANG OUT WAS “LA CAHUILLA,” THE 2300 BLOCK SECTION OF GRAND AVENUE SO NAMED BECAUSE OF THE OLD DILIPATED CANTONES AND RUN DOWN NITTY-GRITTY LOOKING STREET THAT IT WAS, REMINDED THE OLD MB BARRIO RESIDENTS OF THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT IN THE NEAR-BY BORDER TOWN OF TIJUANA.

THE MB RAZA THAT KICKED IT ON THIS BLOCK WERE OLD SCHOOL AND THEY TOO BEGAN TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE CLOSE-BY MORLEY STREET VATOS FROM LINDA VISTA. THESE MB VATOS SPAWNED THE CLIQUE KNOWN TO THIS DAY AS THEE “GRAND AVENUE BOYS”. AND IT WAS THESE SAME G’AVE BOYS THAT HAD PLEITO WITH ANOTHER MB CLIQUE OF IT’S DAY KNOWN AS THE “132 DEAD ENDS" WHO WERE FROM THE AREA AROUND FIGUEROA AND BOND STREETS IN THE CENTRO OF THE MB BARRIO.



AT FIRST, THERE WERE SERIO PLEITOS BETWEEN THE G’AVE BOYS AND THE 132 DEAD ENDS, AND WHEN THE TMC (THE MAGICIANS CLUB) LOCOS CAME INTO THE MIX IN THE LATER 1970s. THEY TOO AND THE DEAD ENDS HAD PLEITO WITH THE MB LOCOS CLIQUE THAT SPAWNED OFF FROM THE MB HAZARD.

THE ORIGINAL TMC’s ARE SAID TO HAVE CAME DOWN FROM L.A. BUT SOON THEY STARTED RECRUITING BECOMING ONE OF THE BIGGEST MB CLIQUES OF THE TIMES. ALL THESE MB CLIQUES BEEFED WITH EACH OTHER, UNTIL THEIR FEUDS TURNED DEADLY, AND THAT’S WHEN THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED TO SETTLE DOWN VERSUS EACH OTHER AND FORM THE OFFICIAL “VARRIO MISSION BAY”. BUT EVEN THOUGH THEY ALL BECAME PART OF VARRIO MISSION BAY 13, THEY ALL STILL KEPT REPRESENTING THEIR OWN BLOCK OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, EVEN ‘TILL THIS DAY. IT ALL STILL GOES DOWN AS TO WHAT STREET YOU LIVE ON AND THAT’S HOW THEY BANG IN THE “WEST BAY.”



BY THE MID 1980s, VARRIO MB HAD TWO BIG CLIQUES. THE “LOCOS” AND THE “GRAND AVE BOYS.” BUT IN THE 1990s TWO NEW CLIQUES SPRUNG UP, THE “BOND STREET BOYS” AND THE DELREY STREET BOYS. EACH ONE OF THEM MUCH SMALLER THAN THEIR OLDEN CONTEMPORARIES BUT KEEPING THE MB VARRIO GOING. A LATTER CLIQUE THAT CAME UP ARE THE “BAY RIDERS,” THESE HOMIES STARTED OUT AS TAG’BANGERS HITTING THE FREEWAYS AND FAR AWAY WALLS AND ALL THAT, BUT THEY TOO CAME TO REPRESENT “THE BAY.” THE BAY RIDERS HOWEVER CAME TO BE BASED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE FREEWAY IN CLAIREMONT. BUT THIS WAS NOT OUT OF THE ORDINARY SINCE VMB CAME TO OUTGROW ITS OLD BORDERS, BECOMING THE SECOND BIGGEST VARRIO OF THE WEST SIDE IN TERMS OF NUMBERS, AND WITH THE NUMBERS, THEY TOO SPILLED OUT FROM THEIR OLD SECLUDED LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD INTO THE NEAR-BY GREATER AREAS.

VMB DID NOT CLAIM NO “SIDE” UNTIL THE 1980’s. THAT’S WHEN “SIDE” THIS OR “SIDE” THAT CAME TO FORM PART OF THE VARRIO STRUCTURE ALL AROUND. BEFORE THEN, THERE WERE VARRIOS IN SAN DIEGO THAT CLAIMED OR BASED THEIR NAME ON A LOCALITY “SIDE” OF TOWN, BUT IT WAS NOT A BIG THING FOR MOST. THAT IS, UNTIL THE 1980s, AND MB WENT THAT WAY TOO. MB WENT ON TO CLAIM WEST SIDE JUST THE SAME AS THE OTHER VARRIOS LIKE WOP TOWN, OLD TOWN SD, LINDA VISTA AND CLARAS 13.

AS THE YEARS WENT BY, VMB ADDED MORE AND MORE ENEMIES TO THEIR LIST. WHAT STARTED OUT AS NEAR-BY BEEFS WITH CLARAS AND LINDA VISTA, EXTENDED OUT TO INCLUDE OTHERS LIKE WOP TOWN AND EVEN FAR AWAY VARRIOS FROM THE “EAST SIDE” AND “SOUTH EAST” SAN DIEGO AREAS.



VARRIO MISSION BAY IN THIS NEW MILENIO, NOW FOUR DECADES LATER, CONTINUES TO HAVE A FULL REPRESENTATION ON THE STREETS AND IN THE PINTAS.


Picture and History credits..
PAULY from the MBLSx13

NATIONAL CITY SUR 13

ANCHOR BOYS said to be NATIONAL CITY viejos
Longshoremen Raza of old who worked on the docks (en el Harbor)
and presumed to be "predecessors" in National City.

NOS NIGHT OWLS
One of National City's original Raza cliques who claimed the area centered around Highland and 30TH Street. Mostly inactive now. Contemporary's with OTNC Varrio.

WEST SIDE N.C. LOCOS
On the Northern sector of National City just East of Highland Avenue.
WS’NC’LS claim the area in-between
(W) Highland Ave. .
(N) Division St. .
(E) Palm Ave or the 805.
(S) 8TH Street

ALLEY BOYS (ABS)
Claimed the area around Norton (Street) Avenue neighborhood
The Acre Boys from the Lincoln Acres neighborhood also use the initials “ABS”

NORTON AVENUE BOYS

DIVISION STREET LOCOS
Borderline National City and South East San Diego
Tucked in-between OTNC and SHELL TOWN.

YESCA BOYS (YBS)
A.k.a. YESCA 13
From the 2200 Block of “Lanoitan’ Avenue
Lanoitan equals “National” spelled backwards

RASTA BOYS from the 80s
OG start up Vatos from both National City & Chula Vista

EAST SIDE NATIONAL CITY

ACRE BOYS (ABS)
Associated with the BLOCK BOYS.
From the Lincoln Acres "unincorporated" neighborhood in the Southeast corner of National city.
Norte ~> Plaza Blvd.
Sur ~> 54 Filipino-Americano Freeway
East ~> Calle Rachel
West ~> The 805

BLOCK BOYS (BBS) & (NCBB)
Associated with the ACRE BOYS.
Claim the Alta Vista neighborhood in the Northeast corner of NC with Cherry & Peach Blossom Lanes and 4TH as the core of their Varrio.
OG HQ’s 4100 Block of East Plaza Blvd.
(W) Harbison St.
(N) Division St.
(S) Paradise Valley Rd.

EAST SIDE N.C. LOCOS (ESNCLS)
From the PLAZA MANOR neighborhood.
Claim the area in-between
(W) Palm Avenue / 805 Freeway..
(E) Harbison Avenue..
(S) Plaza Blvd..
(N) Division Street.

Acre Boys, Block Boys and ESNC’Locos are all from National City’s East Side (East of the 805 Freeway), but even though they’re all separate Varrios, they all align together and claim ES’NC.

And another NC creation the..
SOUTH SIDE MOB 13
a.k.a. NC MOB 13
Also Known As SOUTH BAY MOB
Said to be kick-started by vatos from L.A. County's LYNWOOD MOB and vatos from SOUTH EAST San Diego County in the 1980s.

VARRIO LOGAN HEIGHTS

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Here’s a little something on San Diego’s “South East”
VARRIO LOGAN HEIGHTS

Logan Heights proper is a combination of 2 communities, BARRIO LOGAN and MEMORIAL PARK, which together make up the entity known as LOGAN HEIGHTS

VARRIO LOGAN HEIGHTS has 5 different cliques that represent the Varrio to the fullest..

RED STEPS
LH30TA
LH33RD
LH13Ls
LHClika

And each of those cliques have their own distinct “Homegrounds”

(1) The first one is BARRIO LOGAN

N ~ Commercial Street (The Tracks)
W ~ Main Street
S ~ 32nd Street
E ~ Interstate 5

BARRIO LOGAN is synonymous with RED STEPS. So if you hear someone say BARRIO LOGAN or BARRIO RED STEPS, that’s what they’re saying.. They’re saying that they are from the barrio west of the 5 Freeway surrounding Bay Bridge Park, a.k.a. CHICANO PARK.

(2) The second is the LH30TA zone, which is synonymous with the area surrounding Memorial Park.. centered at 30th Street and Ocean View Blvd.

N ~ Commercial Street (The Tracks)
W ~ 28th Street
S ~ Interstate 5
E ~ Bancroft Street, and the 15 Freeway down through National Avenue

(3) LH33RD neighborhood lies down a barranca (small ravine area) on the northeast corner of Logan Heights.. in-between Bancroft Street and the 15 Freeway, running from north to south all along 33Rd Street.

N~ K street (cul-de-sac north of Imperial avenue)
W ~ Bancroft Street (ravine)
S~ Ocean View Blvd.
E~ 15 Freeway


(4) In-between .. (N) Commercial Street/The Tracks, (E) 28th Street, and (SW) Interstate 5.. is the proper “Logan Heights” defined zone on the maps. This zone is inhabited by everyone from LHTS (RS, 30TA, and 13Ls).

The LH’13 Locos are the only ones of the LH cliques which do not have a solid defined established neighborhood.. LH13Ls are simply from all over Logan Heights.. LH13Ls is rumored to have had some trouble being accepted as a bonafide LHTS clique in their beginning porque the rest of LHTS didn’t really consider them raised RS, 30TA or 33RD.. But 13Ls earned their respect, and they are now clearly a bonafide LHTS clique.

(5) Logan Heights “CLIKA”..
This 5Th Logan clique neighborhood is far away from Logan Heights proper.. LH’Clika is located in “EAST SIDE SAN DIEGO”.. LHC was set up by vatos from LHRS & LH3OTA in the Colina Del Sol neighborhood on the East Side.. thus making VLHts, San Diego’s only varrio to actually have a well established territory in two separate areas of the city.

N~ El Cajon Blvd.
E~ 54TH Street
S~ University Avenue
W~ Euklid Avenue

Note; All 5 cliques from LHTS get along with each other.. They don’t have pleito, even though they do compete with each other as to which is the baddest.. but for the most part they’re cool with each other.. in fact, Red Steps is said to be propping up Treinta y Tres, and bringing them back from the dead.

..

There used to be another clique from Logan Heights which was not part of VARRIO LHTS.. They were the Logan Heights “LUCKIES” from the triangular shaped neighborhood zone between Commercial, I-5 and 28th.. They were an independent and non affiliated clique that went by LH’LKS and Calle Veinte y Seis "LHC26LKS".. Circa 1960s to 1981/early 80s (?).. The ”LUCKYS are defunt now, but that’s where they were reputed to have been their stomping grounds.

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KEEP IT HATE FREE!

SOUTH BAY / SOUTH SIDE SAN DIEGO

SOxBAY, the “SOUTH SIDE” of SAN DIEGO;
Rich in the tradition of the Varrios..

With old neighborhoods and antiguo Raza that cliqued up and set up their Varrios long ago.

Varrios which are now on the list amongst the very olden ones of all thee "1902" Condado.

Varrios even as old as those from other Sides of the County;
Like those from
BARRIO LOGAN,
BARRIO SHERMAN,
LA COLONIA EDEN GARDENS
or ENSENITAS TORTILLA FLATS

All of these same Olden SOUTHxBAY Varrios..

Like
SIDRO
DEL SOL
IMPERIAL
OTAY
PALMAS
NESTOR
OTNC
VCV

~> Survive going strong..
even onto this present age

How and when did it all start out down here?
It is hard to say.
It's all been around for a long ass time.
Part of it you can tell by the plenty numeros of oldie vatos still kicking it in these parts of the Old Land!..

The attitude i dare say,
has been here
from as far back as there’s been raza staking claim to a piece of ground in the Southwest
The Southwest called ~> AZTLAN..
and that goes back, way back..
way way back in time.

From old beginner times, these local grounds have been a cross-road between the two Republics of European-White-America and European-Mestizo-Mexico.
Both cultures threw some in there and spiced up the soul, helping out to lift up the heads of the local vatos.
High on pride and commitment to family, they carried themselves and went about their days laboring in the fields, working in the packing plants, working in construction projects, or on the docks.
After work they would always find some time to socialize, drinking some brews, puffing on frajos, on the strings and cords with their liras serenading the ladies with their romantics, or singing their sadness to the night.
A sad but happy hard life they lived, their days and nights were always filled with laughter, but filled with tears as well.
Their sad souls, their rough faces, their strong defiant and valiant attitude towards hardship, their commitment to one another, it all was watched and learned from, it all was deposited on the hearts and minds of the next generation who witnessed them, and the next generation tried to duplicate it all, in their own version, during their own growing up times.

Dirt streets criss-crossed the neighborhoods, a clear sign to outsiders that they'd entered the poor side of the town.
That’s what they were originally, isolated little villages on the outskirts of the society-in-charge of business and politics.
Poor little enclaves called Barrios and Colonias, soon to be marked for destruction by city planners and the wheels of time.
Nevertheless, the Low-Down Raza from the Poor-Sides grew ever stronger in the Califas style that sparked up the humble rebel-in-them.
They got into car clubs, picked up motorcycles, dressed down and hit the dancehalls.
They blazed up and hanged out with the crowd, kicking it at the corner, at the park or at the pool hall.
The times kept bringing on fast changes to the Barrios.
The music sounds, the fashion trends, the city landscape, the population mix., everything and all; the tic tocs of creeping time moving them fast-forward into the future, not giving much chance for the younger generations to fully grasp things from the old side of the fence, and so they adopted what they could, and disguised the new..
Raza Loca de Califas they became, first Pachucos, then Cholos, and now Brown Pride Gangsters!

American Gangsterism captivated and seduced the Vatos Locos, one generation after another.
Just like the rest from all over the Brown Nation of Aztlan, they carried inside their veins the fiery blood of a warrior past, and so they created their modern tribes, their modern neighborhood clans.
Their attitude remained the same ole one, that of a Mexican trapped inside America.
Mexico forgot about them, and America denied them.
Not from here, nor from there, they found themselves as from neither one;
And so they went about in creating their own little countries in the form of Varrios..
They gave their allegiance, and devoted themselves to one another, backing each other against any and all enemies.
As time went by, little by little, they built up their own sub-culture.
They transformed their dress code to conform to the flamboyant look;
They re-invented the English and Spanish language and applied a slang version to their everyday talk.
El Vato Loco drapped himself with the gangster image of the American Roaring 20s and 30s, but a-la-Mexican version.
Rebels of society who strolled around, and rolled around, defining their space, marking their territory, establishing their borders.
Going places, they’d run into hassles.
Rumbles and throwing down with others from around near-by became the thing.
Soon, street warfare between Brown Raza replaced fighting for racial space, and soon enough, the Varrios became fully focused on each other.
Their rivalries rose to a level of hatred and violence for which there is no end in sight.
The toe to toe, the fists and kicks gave way to knives and chains;
Knives and chains in turn gave rise to guns and rifles;
And now automatics and high-power calibers reign supreme.
What was once about your street, your friends, your space in this great little big world, became ever more encroached upon by new streets and new faces, faces with new ideas and aspirations for life.

The old nostalgia is becoming but a faded memory, seldom remembered in the concrete jungle rat-race.
Thee rat-race virus, unstoppable in its invasion and corruption of a vato's soul!

The SOxBAY first crazy vatos are lost to recorded history.
Few records exist other than a few newspaper articles pertaining to “criminal” activity.
The rest comes from a few old heads that can tell you the tales from the hood in small talk personal conversation.
But it is said that amongst the first to organize into what later gave rise to the Varrios of today, are said to be those like THEE IMPERIALS from Imperial Beach, the VULTURES from San Ysidro, and the ANCHOR BOYS from National City.
A later generation like the COACHMEN from Sidro, and the YATOS from Otay are credited to be from the actual generation that cliqued up and formed the Varrios as we know them today..

IMP13, IMPERIAL
SYR, SIDRO
O13, OTAY
OTNC, VIEJO
VLPR, PALMAS
VCV, CHULA VISTA
DSR, DEL SOL
and NST, NESTOR

are listed as the oldest of the SOxBAY.

These SOxBAY Varrios like others from other parts of the County and State, were able to maintain themselves old-school and traditional;
Each one was able to keep their locals united, and each new Varrio clique gave their first allegiance to the Varrio, the clique came second!

The SOxBAY varrios were able to keep it together like that for several decades, all the way up to the late 1970s.
But by then, several factors had begun to take a toll on their little nations.
The freeway system was built over Barrio lands, destroying whole sections of the neighborhoods, creating physical barriers and divisions between their communities.
Palm City, Chula Vista, National City, Nestor and San Ysidro were the hardest hit by the criss-crossing freeway system.
New housing developments and commercial business complexes arose here and there and everywhere.
The population growth brought tons of new faces and skin shades, and different attitudes to the sacred grounds.
The later trolley line further added a boundary for some.

Whereas before all the locals from each Varrio started out in the same Elementary school and Junior High;
Now, there were many different schools in each town.
The nostalgia of the Old Times had passed and the new sounds, the new garb, the new rides, new trends, new this, new that and new everything propagated by the media and Hollywood in full partnership with business entrepreneurs, had propelled the younger minds into a wide diversity of styles.
The 1980s killed the old and propelled the Varrios into a new era, an era with few rules and deviant attitudes.
Too many vatos going in all different directions, and too many vatos coming in from other places making the SOxBAY their stomping grounds.
Vatos from other SD areas, vatos from LOS, vatos from Tijuas and Mexico, vatos from all over have come down over the years and added their differences to the mix.

The Varrios remain still as one, but the Barrios themselves are far from that.

Law enforcement took its toll on the Varrios as well.
An abundance of resources were put into play..
Once an area was targeted for “clean up” ..
so many Homies began to get locked up for long ass years at a time;
Thus leaving less and less solid vatos on the streets to demonstrate some ole school clecha and recruit.

The effects of so many changes became something of a free-for-all for vatos to go about it any which way that suited them best.
Rockers, Party Crews, Taggers, Stoners, Rock-A-Billy’s and others pulled people away from the Varrios;
And the once huge numbers a Varrio pulled, dropped down big time.
The many new crews that sprung up bordering on the old streets..
in time also gave rise to their own new Treces.

And..

After all is said and done, suffice to say that even with all that heavy chet that has come down on these old grounds..

~> the Old Varrios continue to come out strong..
Defying it all:

Including time itself!

Can’t no one claim that the SOxBAY / SOxSIDE can’t hang with the best..
Because they are from The Best!

From an OLD GUARD of BARRIOS that transcends the decades!

DEDICATED TO THEE OLD SOxBAY VARRIOS . . .

PUT THEM UP

TODO CYCO!

ANGEL in DISGUISE

Like a fix of heroin
That brown sugar smack
Running through my mainline
Hype me out in a flash
What a pleasurable rush

Like a cool juice moment
Got me feeling like superman
As if I’m made to everlast
As if nothing could defeat me
Not even kryptonite

Like a line or two of snow white
Disipating my dread away
High steppin’ into the night
Numbing my stress away
Euphoria running high

Like a trip on the blue dragon
A drop of purple haze
Hearing colors, seeing sounds
On a psychedelic voyage
Hallucinating under the stars

Like cannabis sativa
An eerie dope gangster
Flaming up that bowl of grass
Puffin’ herbal essence
All fumed up on cloud 9

Like a rockstar glued to the pipe
What a grandiose sensation
What an exhilarating body high
An intense puff invasion
Giving me a supersonic rush

Like chugging down some buds
Or like downing some hard tonic
Giving me a nice buzz
Spinning my head around
Warming up my blood hot inside

Like inhaling some crystal, crank or ice
Blasting me off from sundown to sunrise
Got a mothafucka all wired up
Feeling no more appetite
Feeling like a zombie, but all speedo up

Like dropping down some ecstasy
Aphrodisiac scooby snacks
Feeling me up with intimacy
Magnifying my pleasure
Giving me a rock hard on

Your love got me all doped out
Your love is like a natural high
Your love is like the fumes that fill my lungs
Blowing my mind
As if your love really was

I need your love so bad
I need it all the time
For the rest of my natural life
You got me all fucked up inside
Looking up at you like the rainbow stars above

I feel like I’m in heaven
Like if I’m in paradise
In a trance like state of mind
Sleepwalking, experiencing flashbacks
Your love got me feeling alright

On a natural mystic voyage
Gots me feeling so high
Stimulating my senses
Arousing me all night
What a wonderful energy blast

Got me all empathetic to sex and love
Feeling all intimate
You talking ‘bout all that love
Got me on a real sex drive
But like all dope lies

Your love is like an Angel. .
A Devil in Disguise!!!