There’s many reasons I like these type of photos when Sal got done performing either his mind reading act or playing the piano he would go behind the bar and take pictures of customers nowadays everybody has a iPhone to take pictures so we all know how to pose Back then I don’t think too […]

Captain Tony’s saloon 42 years ago the band that night Pacific Orchestra best band by far in Key West at the time we had them six nights a week during season, above Captain Tony’s left window A lot of high stake card games I was a sandwich boy a couple times before I got promoted […]

I told many stories that were told to me from my great uncle Sal, The year 1949 Great uncle Sal worked for the bazaar traveling carnival the world of mirth it traveled down from Canada to Virginia and back Sal was the mindreader, hypnotist, mask maker, piano player, and photographer He even did their magazine […]

Did you ever see the movie eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman at a time the movie was kind of out there to most people, The-mask you’re looking at in the middle of this photo That I just took in my mask room was created by Sal 1951 during the […]

I have been photographing and publishing beautiful women for over four decades It was a hell of a run four years ago I hooked up with the love of my life Miss Lisa Jo Burke Yes Georgia peach’s do exist we lived together way back in the day 40 years ago in Key West We […]

My great uncle Sal was taking portraits as far back as 1928 till his death in 1995 I inherited his lifetime of photographs negatives masks and paintings there’s over 8000 large format negatives that were not printed up maybe they were printed up back in the day and Sal gave them to the person, He […]

If you go to any of my websites you will see some very interesting outdoor portraits for two reasons the people I picked out and the lighting, I designed a lot of window displays wherever I worked Times Square, 34th St, Chinatown I would always put extra lights in the windows showing the merchandise But […]

John Lennon is One of my favorite artists I got him and Jim Morrison were incredible poets I never got to meet John Lennon but I got to meet his wife Yoko Ono I heard so many bad stories about her through the tabloids but I have to admit after meeting her she really was […]

This is some super cool stuff right here it’s one of Sal’s Composite sheets throughout Sals life he probably did over 1000 portfolios of actor and actresses wannabes hundreds of them made it on Broadway or in movies just on this simple composite sheet there’s lots of them there’s Gene Hackman,James Earl Jones, George Maharis […]