I was going through a couple of boxes of slides from Key West from 42 years ago 1979 Lisa that’s my wife on the left and I got very lucky to work with the famous advertising Photographer Dale Whitner I was the back up photographer and Lisa was one of the models we work for four days bikinis on the beach summer dresses on Duval Street it was a great time and I learned a lot from him and as far as Key West partying we all had a blast Lisa and I were living together back then she was 17 and I was 23 The good old times

I was going through a couple of boxes of slides from Key West from 42 years ago 1979 Lisa that’s my wife on the left and I got very lucky to work with the famous advertising Photographer Dale Whitner I was the back up photographer and Lisa was one of the models we work for four days bikinis on the beach summer dresses on Duval Street it was a great time and I learned a lot from him and as far as Key West partying we all had a blast Lisa and I were living together back then she was 17 and I was 23 The good old times

In 2002 I spent close to two years editing my great uncle Sal‘s estate of art and photography over 25,000 large format negatives slides and prints I pulled out about 700 that I really like and could use on all the different projects I would be starting this negative right here with the young lady in the masks in the background in his studio in New York late 50s I have a whole series of these I love them 65 of these masks are in our house in fact why am posting this image on this website six of them are looking down on me they’re the ones with all the crazy special ingredients in the papier-mâché mix I really have to ease off On these gummy bears

In 2002 I spent close to two years editing my great uncle Sal‘s estate of art and photography over 25,000 large format negatives slides and prints I pulled out about 700 that I really like and could use on all the different projects I would be starting this negative right here with the young lady in the masks in the background in his studio in New York late 50s I have a whole series of these I love them 65 of these masks are in our house in fact why am posting this image on this website six of them are looking down on me they’re the ones with all the crazy special ingredients in the papier-mâché mix I really have to ease off On these gummy bears

I photographed in hundreds of strip clubs in the tri-state area for the magazines I worked for I got to meet thousands of dancers and hundreds of a bar owners bartenders bouncers and waitresses what a crazy world this photo right here was interesting because it was a club in Brooklyn called Cheatas It was a full nude juice bar the only thing that the answers wore was leopard shoes completely naked the reason why they could do that is they didn’t serve liquor so anything that stage was considered art they always had eight spectacular girls on stage totally naked and 20 cocktail waitresses walking around with just leopard shoes it cost $20 to get in and you had a buy a six pack of Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper they also had water for you three dollars a bottle but that place was packed They were one of my big advertisers

I photographed in hundreds of strip clubs in the tri-state area for the magazines I worked for I got to meet thousands of dancers and hundreds of a bar owners bartenders bouncers and waitresses what a crazy world this photo right here was interesting because it was a club in Brooklyn called Cheatas It was a full nude juice bar the only thing that the answers wore was leopard shoes completely naked the reason why they could do that is they didn’t serve liquor so anything that stage was considered art they always had eight spectacular girls on stage totally naked and 20 cocktail waitresses walking around with just leopard shoes it cost to get in and you had a buy a six pack of Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper they also had water for you three dollars a bottle but that place was packed They were one of my big advertisers

Sorry about this bragging thing but it’s the only way I could describe one of my photography sites and my image bank of New York I spent 30 years on the streets of New York City I also covered hundreds of events parties and some pretty swanky soirées the interesting thing about the 65,000 photos I added them out of 300,000 it turned out to be a lifetime project for me and it’s still in the works portraitsofnewyork.com and my image bank of New York mia5.com Another very unique thing is every photo has been taken by me and nobody else I believe I have the largest collection of people in New York City and that timeframe than any other photographer nobody can touch my numbers

Sorry about this bragging thing but it’s the only way I could describe one of my photography sites and my image bank of New York I spent 30 years on the streets of New York City I also covered hundreds of events parties and some pretty swanky soirées the interesting thing about the 65,000 photos I added them out of 300,000 it turned out to be a lifetime project for me and it’s still in the works portraitsofnewyork.com and my image bank of New York mia5.com Another very unique thing is every photo has been taken by me and nobody else I believe I have the largest collection of people in New York City and that timeframe than any other photographer nobody can touch my numbers

Back in 1950 we were entering the Korean War great uncle Sal was called upon by the OSS that was CIA back then they wanted him to go undercover as a photographer for the seafarers union which she did legit back in the mid-40s after the second world war Anyway Sal was fortunate to take two trips around the world Photographing all ships in transit in the international waterways and also visiting new ports everywhere He took some amazing photos had about 30 of them Published not this one of course

Back in 1950 we were entering the Korean War great uncle Sal was called upon by the OSS that was CIA back then they wanted him to go undercover as a photographer for the seafarers union which she did legit back in the mid-40s after the second world war Anyway Sal was fortunate to take two trips around the world Photographing all ships in transit in the international waterways and also visiting new ports everywhere He took some amazing photos had about 30 of them Published not this one of course

The T-shirt I am wearing is very unique one of my designs from one of Sal‘s original class slides 1947 that’s my great grandfather in the middle and my grandfather Captain Tony and of course wild uncle Joey great uncle Luigi was actually working as a normal guy Well known barber and bookie you’re going to be seeing over 400 interesting little stories on this category along with photo back up That’s what makes my family stories believable and fascinating keep in mind I do a lot of talk text and nothing has been edited yet enjoy

The T-shirt I am wearing is very unique one of my designs from one of Sal‘s original class slides 1947 that’s my great grandfather in the middle and my grandfather Captain Tony and of course wild uncle Joey great uncle Luigi was actually working as a normal guy Well known barber and bookie you’re going to be seeing over 400 interesting little stories on this category along with photo back up That’s what makes my family stories believable and fascinating keep in mind I do a lot of talk text and nothing has been edited yet enjoy