Interesting mask story

In 1969 great uncle Sal had his mask photography studio above his brothers bar Captain Tony’s saloon in Key West he made a bunch of pirate masks over 50 years ago and put six of them in the bar of course he put special ingredients in the papier-mâché mix since the bar was a morgue in the 1800s he got a hold of some old bones that my grandfather found when they were digging up the pool room there’s still an actual skeleton hanging behind the bar, Sal didn’t use just bone shavings he had pyramid scrapings from Egypt, Haitian voodoo dust, and secret potions from around the world all this stuff went to the papier-mâché mix, I know all about them I have 65 of his mask dating as far back as the late 30s this one you’re looking at, I took this picture in 1977 the funny thing out of all the mask that were there this one is still there it’s in the pool room check it out

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