Rachelle's Reading List: Friday, January 6th, 2012

Photos of teen gangs from the 1950s, Brooklyn. The toughest gangs used to consist of skinny white boys rolling up their shirt sleeves and smoking tobacco:

Legendary New York photographer Bruce Davidson documented a gang of “troubled teenagers coming of age” in 1959 Brooklyn, capturing the young almost-underbelly of a conservative, “innocent” society. They called themselves the Jokers. See them look tough, get tattoos, get into fights, dance to records, nuzzle with their gal pals and loiter cinematically