This was one of great uncle Sal‘s main hangouts the Coral Lounge famous mob night club in Elizabeth New Jersey 40s and 50s This place was right out of Goodfellas. Sal had his name and neon out front he negotiated a deal that he had to perform there five weeks a year remember Sal was all over the place in those days world of mirth, the Korean War, working for the CIA, and a bunch of other wild things there’s hundreds of these types of negatives after Sal played the piano or did his mind reading act he would go behind the bar and do a wide angle photo of the customers I just put this image on a light box and took a picture with the iPhone what a affect some of these images haven’t been printed up for 70 years so when I start putting them on this site you’ll be the first people to see them