I remember the Gangs in San Anto growing up here in Culebra Park in the NW Side of this city. Holmes HS had a big gang problem in the Late 80s and Early 90s. Of course, there was the Klan and the Klik. There were different facets of the Klan. The Original Klan was created by the San Antonio Newsmedia in the late 1980s because they would run around in groups and get into pretty big brawls. Actually, the Klan used to tag their motto as The Clan but changed it to the Klan because everybody was adding K to their name like the Klik and Kings. The Klan was heavily situated in the NW side of San Antonio and was primarily of Hispanic membership with extentions to Anglos and Blacks as well. The Klan was divided into two factions, one being at Jefferson HS and the other at Holmes. The Klanners are Jefferson HS were started up by the Silva Bros. in the early 80s and those Dirties kicked ASS! And the Klanners are Holmes were a bunch of pretty boys. You could identify the Klan by what they wore. The Original Klanners wore brown constuction boots called Redwings and then later evolved to the BlackPull up Redwings, dressing along with Polo shirts identifying themselves with a White University of Texas Longhorns Cap. The Klik originated at Jefferson HS, from what Ive been told, by the Romo Bros. and wanted to be a part of the Klan at Jeff HS, but they were rejected and eventually formed their core membership which they later called themselves the Bud Boys after the Budweiser Beer Logo and thats how they originated themselves with the Red Rag which later evolved into the group becoming the Klik. The Klik was somewhat different than the Klan and sought out to spread it affluence to other parts of the city expanding to Taft HS, Harlandale HS, Memorial HS, and to a few other schools as well. The Klan eventually died out at Jefferson and the Klik consolidated power and took over that public instituion of higher learning. The Klan at Holmes remained in existance but had undergone some evolutionary changes. In the early 90s, what was to be known as the Holmes Klan at the Time, the Holmes Klan was fighting a multifront war against the Klik who made alliances with other gangs in the city at the time, notably with gangs from John Jay HS being The Boyz Club, The Young Country (YCs) and the NSRs (Northside Rollers), the Powerheads by Edison HS along with some skinhead groups like the Sharps who proclaimed themselves to be (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice). They all tried to take the Holmes Klan out, but they were NEVER successful in their means to do so. Eventually, the Klan consolidated their powerbase and retook Holmes in 1991 after the passage of the Muskee Klik which at the time had grown big to become the major gang at the school. They had referred to themselves as the HK (Holmes Klik). The reason they had grown so big was because alot of the original Klanners at Holmes HS had been kicked out for things such as fighting or not adhering to the school conduct policy or they just plainly dropped out of school, many different reasons. The Klan then reemerged with a new generation of Hispanic youth ready to emulate the urban myth legends and stories that they had always heard about growing up from older siblings and relatives. I will discuss the Second Wave of Gang Membership at a different time because times were changing with the emergence of the Folks Up and Down phenomena that hit the City of San Anto by storm and originated in the Southside of San Anto which was Known then as the CGs (Chicago Gangsters). On a personal note, I am glad that violence no longer permates in our city as it once did from 88-through the entire decade of the Nineties. When the movie, Colors came out in 1988 and the rap group N.W.A (*****s With Attitude) came out with Straight Outta of Compton as well, those two things in the media also contributed overnight to the establishment and to the explosion of Gang Violence and Rivalries that affected our city. Rate this post positively Unread 08-26-2008, 05:10 AM Chicano_Art Location: San Anto 3 posts, read 22,918 times Reputation: 24 Ever heard of The Fellas, ETGs East Terrace Gangsters, TOBs The Olmes Boys, The BBC/BBZ The Bad Boy Club which later changed to Bad Boyz? Ambrose (Cano Bros), LA Boyz and Damage Inc. both were of the same blue rag and went to war with each other. There was also RQ Stompers and the Powerheads by Edison and North St. Marys area. The BCs (Bad Company) by Southwest HS and eventually spread to Delfino St on the Westside and 19th St by Lanier HS, establishing new branches. Anybody recall the Blue Circle? What about the Black Circle? The Campeon Bros. from the POs (Puro Ochos? As (Ambrose by Fab Dog and Curly Cano? What about the Lords? Rate this post positively Unread 08-26-2008, 05:19 AM Chicano_Art Location: San Anto 3 posts, read 22,918 times Reputation: 24 The Holmes Klan eventually died out in name but not in its membership. It absorbed the members of the former BBC (Bad Boys Club) and what emerged from that later became to be known as the C.P.K (Culebra Park Klan). Rate this post positively Read more: city-data/forum/san-antonio/178405-gangs-san-antonio-fresno-san-pedro-10.html#ixzz2kfTtMuCE
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