This is not a political statement, This is an original 4 x 5 negative that my great uncle Sal shot in 1974 at the famous jet setters club the Strawhat in Manhattan Sal did his mind reading hypnotizing act while playing the piano He would photograph all the famous people that came in and out […]
We all went down to the meadowlands to do a little gambling on those horses Vinny bravo in the middle hit $17,000 that night and Vinny was a party guy after the horse track we took a limo to Atlantic City last we remembered poor Bruce on the right got arrested My partner Scott on […]
Whenever some beautiful girls walked into my store in time square I would always say so where is the beauty pageant 90% of the time they always gave a big smile this time I said it and they were the girls that were actually in the beauty pageant in Venezuela, They ended up spending close […]
An incredible story behind this self portraits all I can tell you now is 1938 Saint Patrick’s Church Elizabeth New Jersey and that sells lover Jimmy Lansing the story you’ll be in the book the Terracina masquerade a comedic look at a sexually driven mob family
In my over 40 year career of photographing beautiful women I ended up publishing over 1000 of them from Ballarrinas to exotic dancers You also can throw in a couple hundred wild portfolios in the late 80s the 900 numbers came out you know talk to a sexy girl for $1.99 a minute this was […]
March 27, 1981 South Florida’s most talked about story The largest drug seizure in the history of South Florida 200 tons of panama red I was working for the Key West Citizen newspaper as a photographer at the time I got the call at 8 o’clock in the morning Lisa and I just got in […]
I have a lot of great uncles this is my great uncle Joey back in the 40s he was a wild man golden glove boxer, pool hustler, sold a lot of watches on 42nd St. and running numbers, he ended up becoming a professional performer in the 60s playing the washboard And landed a great […]
In the late 70s and early 80s the young people were listening to new wave rock ‘n’ roll we had a band called Metro at my grandfathers bar They played all that music six nights a week during the season from nine at night to 3:30 in the morning this band drew a interesting group […]
New York City is a fantastic place it’s the city that never sleeps there is always something going on if you know the right group of people, In the 30 years of me photographing in Manhattan I acquired a incredible group of friends and Connections sometimes I would get a dozen emails a day about […]
In 1949 Sal worked for the bazaar traveling carnival the World of Mirth he went under the name of the great Saltar he did his mind reading mask making, played the piano, and did all the photographs. This portrait right here is of one of the midget clowns that worked for the carnival. Freddy that’s […]