The category you have entered on this site is a whole new concept in photography it’s the birth of a book 3 photographers all related between all three of them pretty much covered a whole century 93 years photography Salvador Terracina my great uncle was taking pictures as far back as 1927 opened up his first studio in 1929 his little brother the famous captain Tony out of Key West took hundreds of images from the middle 40s Through the 70s and me Keith Terracina I have been a published Photographer As far back as the mid 70s Key West the Jersey shore an New York City I pretty much covered the evil wicked nightlife in a 40 year span of time I have to admit my great uncle Sal was the family master Photographer and Published all over the world if you stay in this category you will see over 1000 images with a little stories attached to each one it’s an art project I’ve been working on for 18 years and I’m not finished

The category you have entered on this site is a whole new concept in photography it’s the birth of a book 3 photographers all related between all three of them pretty much covered a whole century 93 years photography Salvador Terracina my great uncle was taking pictures as far back as 1927 opened up his first studio in 1929 his little brother the famous captain Tony out of Key West took hundreds of images from the middle 40s Through the 70s and me Keith Terracina I have been a published Photographer As far back as the mid 70s Key West the Jersey shore an New York City I pretty much covered the evil wicked nightlife in a 40 year span of time I have to admit my great uncle Sal was the family master Photographer and Published all over the world if you stay in this category you will see over 1000 images with a little stories attached to each one it’s an art project I’ve been working on for 18 years and I’m not finished

Key west has been celebrating sunset for over 50 years I know firsthand I was there in the late 60s and saw it firsthand when I eventually move there in the mid 70s I started taking sunset and sunrise pictures not from Mallory Square we’re all the tourists go there was a bunch of us locals that went to Simonton Street we had our wine, beer, and tequila or whatever drugs we were doing that night but what was different back in the 70s we would all meet at sunrise at White Street pier that’s where this photo is that I taken in 1979 even health Published after we all partied all night and the bars closed at four in the morning we would either go to a house party or jump in Michael Alexanders speed boat and go to San Chi Lisa and I did this many nights And then we would zip back for breakfast Key west the way it was

Key west has been celebrating sunset for over 50 years I know firsthand I was there in the late 60s and saw it firsthand when I eventually move there in the mid 70s I started taking sunset and sunrise pictures not from Mallory Square we’re all the tourists go there was a bunch of us locals that went to Simonton Street we had our wine, beer, and tequila or whatever drugs we were doing that night but what was different back in the 70s we would all meet at sunrise at White Street pier that’s where this photo is that I taken in 1979 even health Published after we all partied all night and the bars closed at four in the morning we would either go to a house party or jump in Michael Alexanders speed boat and go to San Chi Lisa and I did this many nights And then we would zip back for breakfast Key west the way it was

The year 1949 great uncle Sal is working for the World of Mirth a bizarre traveling carnival that travel down through Canada to Virginia and back sal was hired As the organ player for the girls in the burlesque show he also had a mask photography studio that traveled with them he did a lot of mind reading in there and hypnotizing people also did all the photos for that Company and their yearly Magazine they used Sal for many other things Sal was usually the negotiator when they came to a new town and had to pay off the sheriff to set up in a field somewhere Sal I was an amazing negotiator Anyway we all know Sal was a wild gay guy but he did venture off with different women now and then the girl in this picture Dorita she was the head burlesque girl she was the one who danced outside on stage and coaxed all the other men in the big tent in that tent you could actually see nude women and they probably invented the first lap dance in there from what my great uncle Sal told me late at ni

The year 1949 great uncle Sal is working for the World of Mirth a bizarre traveling carnival that travel down through Canada to Virginia and back sal was hired As the organ player for the girls in the burlesque show he also had a mask photography studio that traveled with them he did a lot of mind reading in there and hypnotizing people also did all the photos for that Company and their yearly Magazine they used Sal for many other things Sal was usually the negotiator when they came to a new town and had to pay off the sheriff to set up in a field somewhere Sal I was an amazing negotiator Anyway we all know Sal was a wild gay guy but he did venture off with different women now and then the girl in this picture Dorita she was the head burlesque girl she was the one who danced outside on stage and coaxed all the other men in the big tent in that tent you could actually see nude women and they probably invented the first lap dance in there from what my great uncle Sal told me late at ni

Through the late 80s and early 90s I ended up publishing over 1200 exotic dancers in three different magazines, New Jersey and New York had hundreds of strip clubs at a time and thousands of dancers from Brazil, Russia, and then the good old American girls there was only one magazine at a time actually three one in New Jersey one in New York and then their quarterly magazine that went to every club in America guess who landed the job Photographing all these clubs and dancers me we even opened up our own studio mentertainment Studios Besides the 1200 girls I published I am done over 200 nude and semi nude portfolios you’ll see a lot of those images on this site

Through the late 80s and early 90s I ended up publishing over 1200 exotic dancers in three different magazines, New Jersey and New York had hundreds of strip clubs at a time and thousands of dancers from Brazil, Russia, and then the good old American girls there was only one magazine at a time actually three one in New Jersey one in New York and then their quarterly magazine that went to every club in America guess who landed the job Photographing all these clubs and dancers me we even opened up our own studio mentertainment Studios Besides the 1200 girls I published I am done over 200 nude and semi nude portfolios you’ll see a lot of those images on this site

There’s hundreds of some pretty wild family stories on this category actually over 1000 images with interesting funny stories attached to them this is one of my favorites The year 1941 that’s my dad and his father my grandfather the famous Key West Captain Tony But before all that Key West stuff The captain had a little boat with a motor on it he would take my father fishing late at night but never go fishing they would pick up stolen merchandise off the Newark docks, That’s right Captain Tony was a original New Jersey mob guy big-time, Elizabeth New Jersey was one of the biggest organize crime towns in New Jersey my great grandfather Luigi opened up a scrap metal company there in 1911 that’s when Sal was born never bought any metal never sold any metal but definitely spent a lot of time in Chicago what’s great about the stories that you will see everyone of them has photo back up everybody in the family was a Photographer we documented everything

There’s hundreds of some pretty wild family stories on this category actually over 1000 images with interesting funny stories attached to them this is one of my favorites The year 1941 that’s my dad and his father my grandfather the famous Key West Captain Tony But before all that Key West stuff The captain had a little boat with a motor on it he would take my father fishing late at night but never go fishing they would pick up stolen merchandise off the Newark docks, That’s right Captain Tony was a original New Jersey mob guy big-time, Elizabeth New Jersey was one of the biggest organize crime towns in New Jersey my great grandfather Luigi opened up a scrap metal company there in 1911 that’s when Sal was born never bought any metal never sold any metal but definitely spent a lot of time in Chicago what’s great about the stories that you will see everyone of them has photo back up everybody in the family was a Photographer we documented everything

I see hundreds of sunset photos from Key West every day on Facebook this is one I published 43 years ago I was at the corner of Simonton Street the island on the left what is Tank Island this is before they even thought of building on it this is also a original Kodachrome slide I switched over from print film to slides 1978 all us locals didn’t go to Mallory Square we hung on Simington Street waters edge you want to talk about parties this was always our pre-party before entering the fast lane in key west At night Key West the way it was

I see hundreds of sunset photos from Key West every day on Facebook this is one I published 43 years ago I was at the corner of Simonton Street the island on the left what is Tank Island this is before they even thought of building on it this is also a original Kodachrome slide I switched over from print film to slides 1978 all us locals didn’t go to Mallory Square we hung on Simington Street waters edge you want to talk about parties this was always our pre-party before entering the fast lane in key west At night Key West the way it was

Back in the late 80s over 30 years ago I got involved with the 900 numbers you know talk to a hot sexy girl for $1.99 a minute since I knew so many exotic dancers through our magazines and studio I got to pick out a lot of seductive faces that weren’t too seductive they just held that phone perfect and looked very sincere on the business card we picked up a bunch of those numbers and did really well I use to love to watch the other end of the Business That’s the housewives or mothers talking on the phone To the customers I would listen in on the conversations they were hilarious As you continue to go through this category on this website we will see a lot of interesting photos with stories

Back in the late 80s over 30 years ago I got involved with the 900 numbers you know talk to a hot sexy girl for .99 a minute since I knew so many exotic dancers through our magazines and studio I got to pick out a lot of seductive faces that weren’t too seductive they just held that phone perfect and looked very sincere on the business card we picked up a bunch of those numbers and did really well I use to love to watch the other end of the Business That’s the housewives or mothers talking on the phone To the customers I would listen in on the conversations they were hilarious As you continue to go through this category on this website we will see a lot of interesting photos with stories