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This blog put together a gallery of old business cards that gangs in Chicago

This blog put together a gallery of old business cards that gangs in Chicago used to pass around in the late 70s and early 80s, when they were a little more civilized and liked to bro down as well as smash in heads with baseball bats as entertainment for the line at the ice cream truck. Yes, these are real. They even found a card that belonged to the Almighty Gaylords, Chicago's oldest and most menacing all-white crew whose suburban jock-style letterman's sweaters we told you about in our Gangs and Cults issue a while back. Hold off on the hooded men and other tasteless racist symbology (especially if, like the Gaylords, you're a scumbag second-generation American-Italian who's never even seen a photo of Austria or anywhere south of the Mason Dixon line), but can everyone please stop it with the online "networking" profiles and start making real-life contact paraphernalia that looks like decoupaged clip art salvaged from the Kinkos bin by guys who run used tire shops just to be able to afford one of those shitty tricked-out vans?

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