LA HABRA 13

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(W'S) CAMPO 
(Campo Colorado, Campo Verde, Campo Corona)

VARRIO W'S LA HABRA 
(Campo Alta Vista, Florence Court)

ALL WEST COAST

(E'S) MONOS

VARRIO E'S LA HABRA

(E'S) WARD STREET

LA NARANJA

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ORANGE VARRIO Lista..

ORANGE VARRIO CYPRESS

ORANGE VARRIO LEMON 

BARRIO VIEJO ORANGE
OLD TOWN KLIKA / KRIMINALS

ORANGE KRAZY MALDITOS
(ONLY KRAZY MEXICANS)

THE CITY VANDALS

STAYIN' UP KLIKA

BROWNS TOWN

VARRIO MODENA

CALLE PEARL

WICKED HOODLUM LOKOTES

EVIL SIDE LOCOS

EAST SIDE RASCALS

ORANGE COUNTY CRIMINALS

Nota: BARRIO CYPRESS CROOKS is a whole 'nother VARRIO not affiliated with OVC

COSTA MESA VARRIOS

COSTA MESA, OxC
A.k.a. "COSTA MEXICO"

LTR LITTLE TOWN RIFA

CSL CALLE SHALIMAR

ECM EASTSIDE COSTA MESA

FLC FEARLESS CROWD

VFK FORMING KAOS

APG AZTEC PRIDE

EAST SIDE 19 STREET

FMR FAMILY MOB

GARDEN GROVE VARRIOS

BUENA CLINTON HARD TIMES

PALMA VISTA STREET

NUEVE TRES 93 LOCOS

CRIMINAL TOWN

COLONIA MANZANILLO SAN JUAN ST

EAST SIDE GANGSTER GROVE

WEST SIDE GHETTO GROVE

LOCO MEXICAN STYLE

EVIL WAYS 13

STREET FAMILY

BASTARD FAMILY

DOWN CROWD

ORGANIZED CRIME SUICIDALS

LAGUNA STREET RIFA

TOO FUCKIN' SICK

WICKED MINDS

GxG WS 18 STREET

GxG PLAYBOYS

SPORTS & VARRIO RIVALRY

During the 1930s and 1940s community-based baseball clubs sprung up in many Southern Califas Barrios and Colonias, introducing Chicano youngsters to America’s national pastime at a time when Mexican-American sports heroes were few and far apart. But unlike the baseball clubs sponsored by employers and Anglo social reformers who sought to use baseball clubs to Americanize and socially control the Mexican population, the Barrio baseball clubs turned things around, and in the face of racial discrimination and limited opportunities that afflicted the Mexican-American population in the agricultural-industrial cities and towns, baseball took on a symbolic and real social significance. Chicanos used baseball to proclaim their equality through athletic competition, without fear of reprisal, and to publicly demonstrate community solidarity and strength. Mexican-American peloteros took to the diamond fields every weekend afternoon to play independent sandlot. Barrio baseball teams would travel to other Barrios and play other Barrio teams. Just about every large Raza Barrio had a baseball team. These Barrios adopted names for themselves and they played on dirt fields. They played on fields adjacent to rail road tracks, on factory yards, on empty open tracts of land or wherever they could find room to play ball. In Orange County, the Barrios from San ‘Tana, Plasencia, Anaheim, La Habra, Westminster and Stanton would meet regularly. Sometimes even far away teams from Corona, Temecula or Carlos Malo (Carlsbad) would come down to play the local teams from La Naranja.

Mexican-Americans used baseball clubs to promote ethnic consciousness, build community solidarity, display masculine behavior, and sharpen their organizing and leadership skills. In this regard, Chicanos transformed baseball clubs into a political forum to launch wider forms of collective action. But the youngsters, the peewee generations of players from the different Barrios, turned the diamond field brawls and rumbles into long lasting rivalries that eventually turned deadly when they substituted gloves and balls with guns and bullets.

A Classic example would be the rivalry between La Colonia and Big Stanton..


A group of Homies in Barrio La Colonia Independencia sought refuge from the afternoon heat in the shade of a Garza Avenue porch in Anaheim. “You talk to those vatos in Stanton, they act all bad, but they’re all talk.” Said one of the vatos who had VLCR—an acronym for Varrio La Colonia Rifa—etched on his knuckles.

A mile west on Katella Avenue on a Rose Street porch, a similar group of youths who call themselves Big Stanton echoed their rivals from VLCR. “La Colonia think they're bad, but they only know how to flash guns,” a vato from Big Stanton said.

Since the 1930s, the Varrio Homeboys of La Colonia and Big Stanton have been trying to outdo one another. The rivalry was forged on baseball fields, moved to fashionable cars and clothes, and for the past decades has focused on drugs, guns and killings. And despite all the grieving, and all the efforts of Barrio residents, police and community programs, no one has been able to answer the question. When will it all end?

Those growing up in La Colonia and Big Stanton today have more in common —their Mexican heritage, previous generations who labored together in the fields of Orange County and a common lifestyle— than most other young people growing up in Orange County neighborhoods.

But instead of sparking kinship and camaraderie, those similarities have fueled bitter fighting and bloodshed.

How do you take a youngster and tell him to not do what his older peers, their uncles and cousins have committed?

How do you tell them to stop the gang violence?

“It’s almost impossible!”

“Two households, both alike in dignity, from an ancient grudge break to a new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

BARRIOS, COLONIAS & CAMPOS

IN SEARCH OF ORANGE COUNTY'S
HISTORIC MEXICAN NEIGHBORHOODS

Mexican urban Barrios and Colonias in the early 1900s often formed around a particular place of work where property values were low, or where lots had been subdivided again and again for the profit of a land speculator, whereas outside the city limits, employers and packing houses often supplied company housing in an effort to promote a stable workforce. In the greater area of La Naranja (Orange County), many early century Colonias and Barrios were established as citrus camps, where workers were tied to a single employer or packing plant. Residential patterns ranged from company built housing areas, to communities in which workers laid out the street, built their own homes, developed small businesses, and as was also done in Santa Ana’s Barrios, engaged in the domestic production of clothing and vegetables. By the 1950s, there were some 40 Mexican neighborhoods spread across all of Orange County. Some of these old neighborhoods you can still find, but it’s too late for finding others because they have been done away with by gentrification.

Gentrification projects intended to drive out Mexicans from Orange County are nothing new. In the 1930s, immigration officials deported entire camps in La Habra and Fullerton. During the 1950s, Anaheim officials bulldozed the La Conga Barrio near Glover Stadium to clear space for parking lots. Barrio after Barrio have fallen victim for one gentrification project or another over the last century. And the sinister planning continues to take place even to this day. From San Juan Capistrano to Fullerton, among swap meets and factories and all along the railroad tracks, luxury condos, apartments, homes and other pricey developments are metastasizing in or near neighborhoods and commerce centers that Mexicans have populated since the days when orange groves outnumbered people.

The coming loss of community in these Barrios might not be as dramatic as what happened during the massive Mexican deportations executed by county and federal agents during the Great Depression and the 1950s. But gentrification ultimately proves more insidious and more successful in getting us Brown Raza out. So take a cruise through those remaining Barrios, check out their people and their streets and enjoy their history before yuppie filth ruin them as they did Echo Park.

You and I both know, that there is something very special about those scatterd places were our familas, our kinfolks, and our old neighbors grew up, were we grew up. Something so special that it makes us say with fondness and pride, that we are from Santa Nita, from La Colonia Independencia, from La Jolla, from Los Coyotes or from this or that Olden Barrio or Colonia. Because in spite of the poverty of the places, the richness is in the heritage, in the close-knit nature of the people who live there sharing joys and the tragedies which life has to offer.

What remains of many of those that have disappeared under a never-ending OC developing project are the stories and photographs, intact in the hearts and minds of those viejos who lived the tiempos.

Here's a list of some of those old Mexican neighborhoods.

BARRIO PILAR ARTESIA (WEST SIDE SAN'TANA)
BARRIO LOGAN (EAST SIDE SAN'TANA)
BARRIO DELHI (SOUTH SIDE SAN'TANA)
BARRIO SANTA NITA (WEST SAN'TANA)
COLONIA JUAREZ (FOUNTAIN VALLEY)
COLONIA INDEPENDENCIA - LA COLONIA (ANAHEIM)
COLONIA MANZANILLO (GARDEN GROVE)
COLONIA LA PAZ (GARDEN GROVE)
EL CARGADERO (EAST SIDE SAN'TANA)
LITTLE HOLLYWOOD - LOS RIOS (SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO)
LA CONGA (ANAHEIM)
LA FABRICA (ANAHEIM)
LA JOLLA (PLACENTIA)
LA PALOMA (PLACENTIA)
LA PALMA (ANAHEIM)
COLONIA ALTA VISTA (LA HABRA)
CAMPO VERDE (LA HABRA)
CAMPO CORONA (LA HABRA)
CAMPO COLORADO (LA HABRA)
TRAVELERS CITY (ANAHEIM)
PENGUIN CITY - LITTLE PEOPLE'S PARK (ANAHEIM)
BARRIO TIJUANITA - LITTLE TIJUANA (ANAHEIM)
PLACITA SANTA FE (DOWNTOWN PLACENTIA)
LA PHILADELPHIA (DOWNTOWN ANAHEIM)
BARRIO CYPRESS (ORANGE)
LOS COYOTES (BUENA PARK)
CROW VILLAGE - STANTON VILLAGE(STANTON)
ATWOOD (PLACENTIA)
EL MODENA (PLACENTIA)
LA ESPERANZA (PLACENTIA)
LA BOLSA (HUNTINGTON BEACH)
LA MANZANITA (ANAHEIM)

Maybe some of you know exactly where they are located. maybe some of you still live there. Maybe you have something to say or add with respects for your sacred grounds.

COLONIA JUAREZ

"COLONIA JUAREZ"
A.k.a. The Swamp

Since the 1930s, after the Mexican Revolution
Hence the name for the Barrio 7 original calles

INDEPENDENCIA
JUAREZ
CINCO DE MAYO
ZAPATA
MADERO
VILLA
ZARAGOSA

The place is on the map termed this day and age as The Colony, a mis-translation into the English dictionary.. COLONIA being translated as COLONY which has way different meanings in the two languages.

In current maps, you can find the place just south of the Mile Square Golf Course, with the cross streets being Warner Avenue and Ward Street.

The modern day Colonia Juarez varrio as we tend to associate gangs with, started in the 1960s with the CHEVELLES Car Club., then later they became the CJ DEMONS, and once they got started having trouble in the gang sense, it was with the close-by Huntington Beach Clovers and MoTowns.

Colonia Juarez ever since has remained small and tight, and their representation became mostly defunct by the 1980s, but even so, they're still around.

COLONIA JUAREZ DEMONS

"EL PANTANO BARRIO"