The Ballard of Antonio Alexander Cesar
Antonio Alexander Cesar was born in Compton, Los angles California on June 16, 1919. His parents, Antony and Alexandria Cesar were from México. His father, Antony worked in a tobacco estate form Monterrey, west of Chalco, and his mother, Alexandria, was a housewife and the daughter of Alexandro Morales from Tula, a town north of Torreon. Antony and Alexandria had two children Antonio and Anthon Cesar. The Cesar family Moved to Los angles in 1917 and settled in Compton.
Cesar showed promise as a student, but had trouble with the ruled at his strict Catholic school. He dropped out of school when of school at the age of 16, after being expelled for hitting a male teacher with an object across the head. He worked odd jobs around LA, including a car washer and a candy store. During this time, Antonio Cesar was influenced by gangster John Dillinger, whom he came to regard as a mentor.
After his initial stint with small-time gangs that included the junior forty thieves and the Bowery Boys, Cesar joined the Los angles Killas and then the powerful bloods based in lower Los Angeles. During this time, he was employed abd mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called Harvard Inn. Cesar received the scars that gave him the nickname ‘’Young Scars’’ in a fight. After he inadvertently insulted a man while working the door at a LA night club, Cesar was attacked by the guy’s cousin frank Gallucio; his face was slashed three times on the left side. Yale insisted that Cesar apologize to Gallucio, and later Cesar hired him as bodyguard. When photographed, Cesar hid the scars on his face. He said the injuries were war