Today I want to share with you one of my new favorite instagrams called Veteranas and Rucas – it’s full of unreal photos of mostly Cholas, plus some Vatos. Below you can peep the text from one of our earlier posts called Portraits Of… 70’s & 80’s CHOLAS Culture. What’s cool about this instagram is that shows a time when Brown Pride was down with Black Love! Pages like Veteranas and Rucas are important, because it’s another way of saving culture for future generations!
Vatos get the glory, but we all know it’s the Cholas that hold everything down. I have always had a fasination with gang culture and the people who lived it! Living in Southern California in the 70’s & 80’s, it was all around me, even though I was never a part of one. I had family members that found their self worth in either the Bloods or the Crips, so set claiming was not forgein to me. Latino gangs played by their own set of rules, meaning they had different rules and a sense of fashion than their African American counter parts. In my book, Cholas were Deathrock before there was even the term Deathrock. Their steez has always looked rad to me, from the pancake make up to the chola braclets to the hairspray-drenched hair to their heavily starched jeans. These urban female warriors of gangsterism would not take any shit! I remember seeing Latino girls hand out beatdowns to anyone they thought dissed them or their V-13 Familia. Every hood had its flavor of dressing, but certain things remained the same. You can see the of Chola culture impact on mainstream culture even to this day. More than just beating fools up, these young women shared a bond of loyality that could not be broken.
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Crazy Riders Sureñas 13 Around ’92 Photo: @crs_213
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Crazy Riders Surenos 13 around 1992 #OKIE Photo: @crs_213
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Vista, California 1977 Peachie, Dolly, Kathy and Chris. Photo: @roxanneecheverri
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TBZ13, Maravilla, SS Playboys, Dead End Harpys 1990 Photo: @Yyeska213
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S/O to Toonerville Gang Vatos busted in Tracy Deuel vocational institution 1960 Photo: @mikoe75
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Tijuana Baja California Harpys Gang y Cuadra locos 1979 Photo: @_m.j.4
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🎭~Doing Time~🎭 Child and sisters 1996 @war_child_213 @firmehinas
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Highland Street Santa Ana 1992 🍊 Photo: @steeler_jen
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SHOUTOUT SUNDAY! Varrio Hayes Lil Locos El Monte Photo: @gabster0813
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Lefty & Guera Norwalk Manors 1987 (photo: @deedeniseee )
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Rosie and Tootsie 1971 Cuatro Flats (photo: @rocknroll_rose )
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La Dreamer~ Okie ~ Sad Eyes Crazy Riders 13 & #Playboys13 #CRS13 (photo: @theciscokid7 )
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Alice Aranda on the left from Santa Ana 1972. F Troop (Photo: @geesands_213 )
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#WestLA Late 1940s (photo: @kranker_ )
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Sal Ramirez
May 11, 2016 at 3:51 pm
Antonio Blue
Mariša Goedhart
May 11, 2016 at 1:49 am
Sarah Wyckaert Steph Byrne
Adam Williams
May 11, 2016 at 1:25 am
Johnny Mo
Brandon Cano
May 10, 2016 at 7:01 pm
Sydney Molina
Sage June Sky
May 10, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Courtney
Dan Hall
May 10, 2016 at 3:47 pm
The use of the term “Thug” has become conservative speak for anybody that isn’t white that is perceived as dangerous or intimidating. Be better than that. Also I grew up around cholos and chola culture in southern California in the late 80s and early 90s and they take care of their people. On several occasions they fed me when I came around when I was a dirty skate rat punk kid. I don’t remember hearing any Gothy music and I never heard any of them talk about Morrissey, this Chola/Goth shit seems like a newer trend to me
Brian Wingate
May 10, 2016 at 4:48 pm
These photos are of active gang members; if that doesn’t make them thugs then what does?
Sean Slingerland
May 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Dionna Bell
Justin DeFlores
May 10, 2016 at 2:25 pm
Hell yeah send em back for sure, screw Cholas, stupid thugs.
Berto Guerra
May 10, 2016 at 7:02 pm
Send them back where. To la. This is and has always been part of la culture.
Justin DeFlores
May 10, 2016 at 7:03 pm
Mexico for the slow people!
Rodrigo Vallejos
May 10, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Sebastián El’ese Vida Fiada
Sebastián El'ese Vida Fiada
May 10, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Oooooh !!! Muchas gracias.
Rodrigo Vallejos
May 10, 2016 at 2:12 pm
Lo vi y me acorde de ti altiro
Philip Ketchum
May 10, 2016 at 10:25 am
Amber de Coite
Amber de Coite
May 10, 2016 at 10:50 am
This is amazing 😍
Philip Ketchum
May 10, 2016 at 10:50 am
Amber de Coite I figured you would like this
Ryan Land
May 10, 2016 at 8:37 am
Back in the day you feared the women more than the men!
Lily Fraser
May 10, 2016 at 8:00 am
Bryony Garner 😀
Kat Perez Feuerbacher
May 10, 2016 at 7:30 am
Kim Kelly Galvan 😘
Kat Perez Feuerbacher
May 10, 2016 at 7:27 am
Katina Flores 😘❤️
Kristine Werth
May 10, 2016 at 7:22 am
Nancy Camacho
Nancy Camacho
May 10, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Thank you for that.
It feels soo nice inside to have a friend that has a true understanding of “artist culture”
Gracias mi Amiga…Kristine Werth
Kristine Werth
May 10, 2016 at 6:21 pm
George Poulikakos
May 10, 2016 at 6:09 am
Alex Poulikakos
Leah Alice Riley
May 10, 2016 at 6:03 am
Elle MacMahon 😄
Toblerone Brown
May 10, 2016 at 5:52 am
Nobody loves you Chris, and nobody cares what you think.
Ulti Make
May 10, 2016 at 3:10 am
ping Max
Ross Jenkins
May 10, 2016 at 1:35 am
Snookie Ross
Jose Alberto Rodriguez Santiago
May 10, 2016 at 1:01 am
Han Ten
Joe Goddard
May 10, 2016 at 12:41 am
Pubert Addams
Scott Bowden
May 10, 2016 at 12:20 am
Robin
Jeme Lynn
May 10, 2016 at 12:15 am
Alexandra Wallace !!!!!
Alexandra Wallace
May 10, 2016 at 8:12 am
DUDE.
Joseph Horowitz
May 10, 2016 at 12:12 am
Cristina García Krystal Acevedo
Cristina García
May 10, 2016 at 9:14 am
These women were so badass!
Joseph Horowitz
May 10, 2016 at 9:18 am
Cristina García hell yeah they are
Chris Jones
May 10, 2016 at 12:04 am
They have to go back. Get em outta here!!! OUT out out!!!