My great uncle Luigi the only somewhat normal person in the family he did have a cool barber shop and book enjoyed but that’s pretty much normal for the rest of the family
Back in the day in Sal‘s studio on 45th St. a lot of actors and actresses we meet at Sal‘s place for lunch Gene Hackman Frances Sternhagen Ed Asner even James Earl Jones and Burl Ives Which stop bye I have all there negatives
There’s hundreds of these large format negatives in this category all taken by my great uncle Sal I posted the ones those are really cool looking to me anyway this particular one is in front of Henny LaSalle‘s mob barbershop in Elizabeth New Jersey my great uncle Luigi started there eventually bought his own barbershop grooming unlimited Phil Rizzuto and a bunch of other Yankees went there I even got my haircut there in the 60s and early 70s I really like this negative
She told me she was just waiting for the bus this was a Kodak moment
Hilarious story here that great uncle Sal told me he performed at this nightclub a bunch of times Not only did he perform there he pulled the owner son out of the closet and had some crazy affair with him the owner was very pissed off at Sal and fired him it was going to go further but Sal had much more powerful connections
When you have a store in Times Square anybody could walk in Mick Jager Jerry Seinfeld Sigourney Weaver David Bowie all the famous people go shopping in New York that’s what they do there these three girls right here The one on the right was a Miss Argentina that’s her friends I told him to come over to my studio for free portfolios I gave them cards they never called Ha ha Like I was waiting
Through the 50s and 80s there was a Bizzarre carnival on the Kingsburg boardwalk in New Jersey I got to capture the tail end of it in the late 80s The people the rides and the attractions were 20 years behind it was like a weird dream whenever I photographed there are used a slight fisheye to give it the dreamy affect You could see a midget horse for $.50 even back in the 80s bazaar
In the late 80s and early 90s I published a couple dozen beautiful women for the 900 numbers if you don’t remember what they are it was a number you could call and speak to a very sexy woman pretty much about anything our company owned about a dozen of those numbers we would put hands in the back of all the newspapers even business cards left everywhere this young lady right here Miss Vicky was pretty much on all our ads she had that certain look when I put her in a bikini and G string the phone rang off the hook You never spoke to her she was just a simple nice girl who worked in an office but like I said she had to look
My great uncle Sal loved large ships he already traveled around the world twice believe it or not he was an undercover photographer for the OSS that was CIA back during the Second World War and the Korean War this is the Queen Mary from 1962 Sal took this image with a large format camera this is one of the many negatives I have I enlarged this negative to the size of 3 x 2‘ it’s stayed sharp as a tack I sold Image to a private buyer I saw it framed in his office spectacular
Just some famous and semi famous people who sell photographed in his studio in Manhattan 40s 50s and 60s Gene Hackman James Earl Jones Burrell Ives all the midgets from the Wizard of Oz and then hundreds of people that you will recognize but not know their name I have some crazy negatives If you know what I mean
