"Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)

[Paul Johnson]

I grew up in the Hyde Park area and never heard of a Blackstone hotel
there.  There was a Blackstone Hotel on Michigan Ave just next to the
Hilton of '68 convention fame.  The Windemere was near Blackstone Ave.
Of course when I was growing up there, I was not much of a hotel goer so
I may be unremembered.

Laurence Horn wrote:

>> Blackstone is a north/south street that runs through Woodlawn, which is
>> a neighborhood just south of the U. of Chicago.
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>
> Also back in the late 1960's and 1970's there was a relatively
> reasonable Blackstone Hotel in that area (Hyde Park or Woodlawn, near
> the U. of Chicago) that people stayed in during the Chicago
> Linguistic Society meetings in April.  (People who had a bit more
> money than those of us who stayed at the I[nternational]-House, that
> is.)  I may be confusing its location with that of the Windermere,
> which was the other option.  I think it was turned into condos or
> apartments afterward, but I can't vouch for that.  Anyway, there's
> probably not much connection between the hotel and the Rangers.
>
> Larry
>
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>> Wilson Gray wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not familiar with their use of "mighty, mighty" in their battle
>>> cry, but
>>> the Blackstone Rangers themselves were once (in)famous across [black?]
>>> America, thanks to Ebony and Jet. In their day, they were the Crips
>>> and the
>>> Bloods rolled into one.
>>>
>>> Weren't the Rangers named after their neighborhood? The Crips were
>>> originally the "Cripples" and used an early version of the pimp cane as
>>> their coat-of-arms, so I've heard. Well, having been resident in Los
>>> Angeles
>>> during their rise to fame, I know that they were originally the
>>> Cripples and
>>> carried canes. The *rest* is hearsay.
>>>
>>> Don't know much about the history of the Bloods. The name "Blood"
>>> itself is
>>> probably just the decades-old shortening of "blood brother," used as
>>> both a
>>> term of address and in the meaning, "any random black male."
>>>
>>> -Wilson Gray
>>> ,
>>> On 12/27/05, Paul Johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Subject:      Re: "Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)
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>>>>
>>>> first I heard of "mighty, mighty" was in Chicago about 1964 An attack
>>>> cry of the Blackstone Rangers, a Woodlawn street gang.
>>>>
>>>> Wilson Gray wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It's the "mighty" that grabs my attention:
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you ready, mighty Bulldogs?!
>>>>> Mighty, mighty Bulldogs!!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Wilson Gray
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