jan 1, 1952 - 1940 - 1952 GAYLORDS EST.

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They were registered as an official SAC (social athletic club) club which makes them fully legit. Let me clarify something, the Postal Athletic Club was never involved in any criminal activity and this was not a gang or even close and they were in existence at least 25 years maybe even more. They had a store front somewhere in Noble Square that was likely owned by a member. In this store they had a separate room for all of their trophies, a collection that grew as the years went by. In the late 1940s the Postal Athletic Club established a younger offshoot known as the “Junior Postals.” This was for the kids in the neighborhood to join to keep them out of trouble and give them something to do. They especially loved basketball and softball (Short & Strodtbeck 1961).

In the early 1950s the Junior Postals grew a little older and started acting like greasers, drinking, cussing and all in all causing trouble. They took their drunkenness into the Postal’s club house and ended up wrecking sports equipment that the club house owned. The Postal Athletic Club had, had enough of these teens and threw them out of the club house and into the streets. At that point in time a couple of leaders developed out of this club Anthony “Johnny Boy” Anarina and his second in command Bobby Shipball, these two boys took the Junior Postals to create their own club and registered their own SAC that they called the club the “Gay Lords” in the year 1952.

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