Please pay attention for one minute you are entering a category on this website that I have been working on for 20 years there is 800 images with a two paragraph explanation of the photo, every photo was either taken by my great uncle Sal, my grandfather Captain Tony of Key West and myself Sal opened up his first photography mask studio in 1928 he was always 17 and already performing in many nightclubs as the worlds youngest mind reader and piano player he also hypnotized a lot of people If you want to see all the original advertisements and photos of him back during prohibition they’re also on this site under published stories when my famous grandfather fled to Key West in 1947 he pretty much documented his life with a 2 1/4 camera eventually Sal opened up a mask photography studio above my grandfather‘s original Hemingway bar that he purchased and me I became a professional photographer in 1978 in key west publishing many photos and working for their newspaper after my seven ye

If you made it this far on this site you are about to enter a fascinating category over 800 images pertaining to the Terracina history going back as far as 1929 when my great uncle Sal opened up his first photography studio he ended up becoming the worlds youngest mind reader professional piano player made hundreds of these crazy masks and performs all over the world luckily he documented everything because he was an amazing photographer I jumped on board in 1978 when I first started photographing in key west eventually working for their newspaper as the staff photographer besides publishing a lot of other things I eventually made it to New York and became this famous nude photographer with all these wild websites out of the 800 images on this category with one little story matching each photo you will see a lot of my published nudes as far as these nine images one of them is the original negative of Donald Trump shot by Sal in 1972 it was shot with a large format camera and a wild n

In the late 80s a new business was born the 900 number you could talk to a hot sexy woman for $1.99 a minute at the time temperature I already published hundreds of exotic dancers and a bunch of different magazines yes I’ll brag I was pretty much in the top of my field we decided to buy a bunch of these numbers and I would take pictures of sexy women holding phones then we got the girls that with work to these wacky customers some of the funniest times I had at the studio and office was listening to these housewives talk to these horny guys I would usually buy lunch for the girls and listen in on the conversations I recorded some it’s going to be in my book

Sal and Keith Terracina have been photographers their entire lives Sal opened up his first studio at the age of eighteen in 1929 I myself have been a publish Photographer since 1978 started in key west work straight on through my entire life so far I am 65 now, This category you’re looking at on this site has over 800 images with short stories there’s even a bunch of great photos from Captain Tony in Key West as far back as the late 40s if you know anything about us we all live some pretty wild lives big time and fortunately we have documented it in the last 93 years these images you’re looking at here were taken in Sal studio and in my studio self photograph the gangsters I photograph the exotic dancers this is just the tip of the iceberg Enjoy this site we are going through a major spellcheck right now I did everything talk text the last two years so don’t get frustrated with a lot of misspelling or wrong words

Time for a little family bragging my great uncle Sal had many hats and war many faces, And by the way don’t stare to log into his eyes here he might hypnotize you and pull you out of the closet that was his scene back in the 30s just for the fun of it do you see Sal was booked as the world youngest mind reader back in 1928 he was 17 he worked in some big clubs in New York Chicago and New Jersey if you go to the category on the site published stories and ads You will see the original ads and stories about Sal he worked for Frank Costello in Chicago during prohibition the Otis Beard Tunnel and the Peacock Lounge while he was reading minds he also played the piano professionally while all this was going on his art teacher gave him a camera for his 16th birthday Sal opens up a studio within one year so like myself and Captain Tony we all captured our lives on film we all work photographers selling myself published with studios between all three of us 93 years of wild imagery with stori

My great uncle Sal left me with thousands of negatives pretty much all large format that means 4 x 5 inch negative they range from the 30s through the 90s 20 years ago I printed up about 700 of them amazing images I land at all types of publishing contracts gallery shows sold a lot of prints There’s about 1200 more negative that I really like that I haven’t printed up yet this is one of them if you stay on this category on this website you’ll see about 400 of them with stories

Sal was very well known in Elizabeth New Jersey for being a clairvoyant and someone who could see into the future he even did an act in a bunch of clubs he was booked as the world John gets mind reader Chicago New York and New Jersey when the Catholic Church Saint Patricks found a corpse buried under the basement floor they called Sal in secretly to maybe tell them something about the dead body Sal bought his boyfriend with him Jimmy Lansing it freaked him out 1934 Don’t forget there’s over 800 interesting photos in this category all with great stories all pertaining to the family and all images taken by family members

If any of you follow me on Facebook you will know who Miss tiny is here she got me suspended twice for 30 days on Facebook because I called her a 320 pound Bull Dyke with a Mike Tyson over a hand right I wrote a great story about the days when she was a bouncer at my grandfathers bar early 70s just before I got there this portrait was done above the bar in Sal‘s mask photography studio at the bar I’m pretty sure I got suspended twice for 30 days for saying Bull Dyke nobody can suspend me know I have my own website remember there is 800 images on this category with cool stories every photo taken by the family

This category you are about to go on is absolutely fascinating sorry about the bragging it consist of 800 images all taken bye Salvador Terracina my great uncle, Captain Tony Tarracino my wild grandfather and myself I have been a public photographer for the last 42 years I am 65 now, besides being mentored bye Sal and Captain Tony I inherited all there Published storys photographs and thousands of negatives 93 years worth the 800 images on this category all have little stories these are just some girls I’ve published over 30 years ago I actually threw a party for the magazine I work for