If you go to the mask section on this website you will see over 150 different masks they were used for Sal’s mind reading act as far back as the mid-30s the ones on the wall in this photo were made in 1937 and 38 this was Sal‘s mask studio when he worked with the world the mirth traveling bazaar carnival most of these masks were used in Sal‘s mind reading act and hypnotizing people they were also in a lot of Broadway plays uncle Tom’s cabin and tobacco Road we have 65 of them at our house in their papier-mâché mix there is pyramid scrapings from Egypt, Haitian voodoo dust, Cambodian opium, and secret potions from around the world the energy level in our house is off the chart I am writing the story in the mask room that we have There’s 12 of them staring at me I had them for 20 years in my different photography Studios sometime they hypnotize the models that’s another whole story

Real long story I’ll make it short I took this photo with my dad‘s camera in 1969 two months before this photo my dad comes into a lot of money yes my dad was one of those good fella guys from Jersey anyway he buys my mom a brand new Chevy Malibu two weeks later he wins a brand new Cadillac on the Jersey boardwalk we were partying with my mothers 11 brothers and sisters on the Jersey shore you know those real Italians After doing that for about a week we shoot down to Miami and he gets two rooms at the fountain blue One for me and my sister the other for my mom and dad after meeting all his buddies in Miami we fly down on a private plane to finally meet my famous grandfather captain Tony And that’s when my eyes opened up I was 13 and smoked a little weed down there

If you go to the celebrity category on this website he will see a bunch of celebrities that I caught this one here of Arnold it’s a one of a kind nothing special 23 seconds after taking the photo with my small pocket camera at the Waldorf Astoria I was thrown out before I took the picture and made sure I had five nice glasses of champagne the good stuff and then of course a couple shrimp I didn’t this song was in nine minutes damn I was good 1994

I would have to call this a Captain Tony frozen moment back in the 70s when I worked for my grandfather at the bar I would always take lots of photos of the entertainment to customers I have an incredible collection over 40 years later we are having a big birthday party for my grandfather he’s passed away now already 10 years it’s your tradition that’s done every year on August 10 it’s a hell of a time as Lisa and I are walking in the bar this crazy stripper starts stripping she actually went topless running around the bar she said it was a treat for my grandfather I posted one of the pictures which I thought was Not too bad they suspended me

This is Ronnie the angry clown that wasn’t the role he played he was actually very angry all the time except when working Sal hired him to be one of the clowns at the world of mirth a Bizzarre traveling carnival Mr. Ronnie here served seven years in a prison in upstate New York for attempted murder even though Sal was friends with him he was really scared of him and my great uncle Sal really isn’t scared of anybody or anything don’t let the gay Thing fool you Check out the world the mirth category on this site pretty wild

I will do a little bragging here I published over 1000 exotic dancers for three different magazines I also did a lot of 900 number ads I rolled from the late 80s to the early 90s I even supplied Howard stern with a lot of those Snapple girls I was a special guest on the CNBC TV show real personal I could go on and on this young lady right here Vicky K was one of my top girls she really actually hypnotized man in her life performances and her photos