You have entered a category on this website that’s been around for over 20 years it is still a art project in the works you get to view over 1000 images each of them with a small story attached so you have an idea what was going on in the photo every photo on this website was either taken by my great uncle Sal and his little brother my grandfather Captain Tony from Key West and then there is myself a Published Photographer for over 42 years this category covers over 90 years of the Terracina family history you’re actually getting to view a birth of a book there may be some repeats on images And incomplete stories it’s just to give you an idea what’s going on

Anybody who knows my work knows that I have been photographing an publishing some beautiful women for over 42 years, I was doing some pretty wild postcards back in Key West in the late 70s also did a bunch of those bikini Magazines, I was very lucky at a young age to work with some pretty Good photographers Dale Whitner for one, Back in 1979 we did a bunch of ads for some fashion magazines and ads for sunglasses and Heineken that’s my Lisa on the left, She was 18 years old the other two girls where her Key West friends the girls of Key West in the 70s were a little bit different than the ones now

If you made it this far onto this website and got to this category You are a little educated, There’s three family members that made this category my great uncle Sal had his first studio in Manhattan in 1928 he was 17, then there is his little brother my grandfather the famous Captain Tony you know the mafia guy from New Jersey, rum and gun smuggler out of Cuba, owned this bar right here you’re looking at and then he became the mayor of Key West he took some pretty wild photos especially above the bar Sal and him had this crazy studio up there as far back as the mid 60s I actually started going there in the late 60s and then started working for the family in 1976 and became a published photographer by 1978 A lot of wild photo shoots went on up there with some crazy parties it wasn’t just the bizarre mask Parties, the crazy card games we’re famous Stay on this category there is over 1000 images with the stories attached to each one of them pertaining to the Terracina family

What makes this category on this site so interesting is the different types of images by three wild photographers my great uncle Sal he had his first studio was in 1928 And end up having published photos until his death in 1995 The other photographer his little brother my famous grandfather Captain Tony of Key West originally one of those New Jersey mob guys anyway he arrived to Key West in the late 40s became a rum and gun smuggler in and out of Cuba of course taking some great photos of all those fun times he also owned the original Hemingway bar and then became mayor of that crazy island, And me I ended up publishing over 1200 exotic dancers in four different magazines and doing hundreds of nude portfolios And then of course I was heavily involved with the 900 numbers this category has over 1000 images with some funny stories attached to each one all three of us have our stories with photo back up

There is millions of really cool websites out there this one you were on now is pretty different from all of those first of all it is over 90 years of images from three related photographers my great uncle Sal my grandfather Captain Tony and myself all three of us had some pretty bizarre lives Sal had the first studio in 1927 he had studios till his death in 1995 my grandfather the famous Captain Tony had a wild mask photography studio above his bar the original Hemingway bar In Key West Sal and him had a blast and me I have been a published photographer for over 42 years A couple more things that make this category very interesting I post a lot of original negatives of images that never has been seen by anybody from many years ago there is over 1000 images in this category each one of them has a pretty interesting story about what was going on you are also getting to see a birth of our book

You landed on a pretty wild website I have been working on it for over 20 years it’s still an art project in the works the image you’re looking at is one of my great uncle Sal‘s masks that he made in 1937 the guy next to me is my hesd writer Mr. Kerry Martin The 380 pages I am holding in my hand is a comedic look at a sexually driven mob family they also were all photographers Published since the late 20s on this category alone there is over 1000 images each image has a very interesting story attached to it, it is also the birth of our book you get to take a peek. Stay on this category for a while you may see a couple repeats and some misspelled words but it is an inside look of our project enjoy

In 1934 my great uncle Sal was 23 years old he has been performing in night clubs all through Chicago New York and New Jersey he was booked as the worlds youngest mind reader and hypnotist while he did this act he played the piano his talents we’re all self-taught he made this promo poster from all his newspaper stories and ads and articles he was sent to the Newark psychic center at the age of 14 this category you entered has over 1000 images that the family has taken three of us were published photographers the images cover a 90 year period, my grandfather Captain Tony from Key West and myself were also published photographers we add to the mix stay on this category and you will be quite impressed this is the birth of our book, it’s an art project in the works for close to 20 years there may be a couple duplicates of these images and a lot of misspelled words remember everything is unedited you get to see everything in the Raw

Besides the thousand images with all the wild stories attached to them on this category pertaining to the Terracina‘s you will see some really cool gangsters from New Jersey that my great uncle Sal shot in the 40s And 50s, There is hundreds of exotic dancers I published in the 80s and 90s while you’re going through all that you will get a taste of my grandfathers Images he’s that wild mob guy from New Jersey who fled to Key West in the 40s he took hundreds of photos on his 65 foot party charter boat that went back-and-forth to Cuba and all the images he took in his bar in Key West the original Hemingway bar Captain Tony’s Saloon Sal and him had this bizarre mask photography studio above that bar Some pretty wild parties there in the 60s and 70s I know I was working downstairs covering the door at that bar sometime there was more action upstairs than downstairs and trust me downstairs was off the chart You are seeing the birth of a book

You have clicked in to a pretty amazing category on this website there is over 1000 images pertaining to the Terracina history a lot of the original negatives have never been seen before by anybody Or 1000 images have a little story is attached to them they were shot by three professional published photographers over a 90 years span. My great uncle Sal he opened up his first studio at the age of 17 years old in 1928 he was also booked as the worlds youngest mind reader and hypnotist while he did his piano act in many clubs in this country during prohibition and for the rest of his life, The second photographer is Sal‘s little brother my grandfather the famous Captain Tony from Key West you may have heard about him famous rum smuggler, mayor of Key West, owned the original Hemingway bar, Sal and him had a photography studio above that bar you can imagine those photos, there in this category the third photographer that’s me I have been published for over 42 years my claim To fame i

As far back as 1927 my family has documented their lives, My great uncle Sal opened up his first mask photography studio in 1928 and was a known Published Photographer for his entire life tell his death in 1995, his little brother my grandfather the Famous Captain Tony from Key West started photographing when he arrived to Key West in 1948 his images are from his 65 foot commercial party boats and the oldest bar in Key West Captain Tony’s Saloon the original Hemingway bar his collection is incredible and then you have me I arrived in Key West 1976 and became a published Photographer in 1978 for Kennedy Studios and the Key West Citizen after covering Key West for seven years I took off to New York City and spent over 30 years Photographing that crazy city on this site you will see over 1000 images with some very interesting stories attached to each one of them it’s actually the birth of our book It is still a art project in the works Every image was either taken by Sal my grandfat