Great uncle Sal was a entertainer his whole life playing the piano, reading minds, hypnotizing people his two favorite things were to make masks and photograph people he would always find these jobs that would put him in weird situations night clubs during prohibition traveling carnivals and reading minds an hypnotizing people at mafia bars or gay bars everything was always fun for him especially finding people that were in the closet and pulling them out by hypnotizing them or reading their minds I guess that was his number one fun thing sex I spent a lot of time with my great uncle Sal when he had his studio above Captain Tony’s saloon mid 70s taking photos and making masks the most time I spent with him was his mask photography studio in Manhattan early 90s this is where I heard all the stories they are all so fascinating a lot of them are published articles and stories but the time he spent with the bazaar traveling Carnival the world of mirth 1949 really got my attention he traveled with a lot of the burlesque girls midgets psycho clowns and all the people who worked in that industry wow this image right here is not a midget he’s a dwarf my great uncle Sal explain the difference to me another wow