I’ll just say this there’s lots of great Italian group shots on this Category I’m not saying they’re all gangsters but some more Elizabeth New Jersey 1947
On this category you have entered you will see over 1000 images with some pretty wild stories my great uncle Sal Captain Tony and myself documents in our lives for the last 90 years These are just some exotic dancers that I published back 30 years ago
In my great uncle Sal’s lifetime he created over 300 of these masks Lisa and I have 65 of them at the house here Sal started making them in the mid 30s and use them in his photography Studios for over 60 years I inherited all of them over 20 years ago and I use them in my photography Studios do you see a lot of them on this site
As you go through these 900 images with some pretty wild stories he will come across some of the exotic dancers I published back in the 80s there is over 1200 exotic dancers Published under my name
Love this large format negative that’s my grandfather Captain Tony my great aunt Palma The little one my second cousin Aldo Costello 1945
On this category you just got on has over 900 images with some pretty wild stories all taken by three family members in the 90 year. Some of the negatives have never been published or printed Like this one in downtown Elizabeth the Italian section We will call it that for now
You’re getting to see a whole new concept on a website this category right here has over 900 images with some interesting stories attached to each photo it covers a span of over 90 years three family members on a mission all three were published photographers with Studios the first one in the photo here is my great uncle Sal Besides being booked as the worlds Youngest mind reader hypnotizing people and playing the piano he made these crazy masks his photos are published all over the world, you might’ve heard about his little brother my grandfather X New Jersey mom guy Captain Tony out of Key West rum smuggler gambler he actually bought the original Hemingway bar had that for 25 years then they meet him mayor he took a lot of amazing photos and then there’s me I have been a published Photographer for over 42 years my claim to fame is I covered the evil wicked nightlife also had a bunch of studios and of course work for a bunch of newspapers and magazines These 900 images of our
You have entered a category on this website that has been fine tune for the last 18 years there is just so many images between these three photographers spanning over 93 years it’s not that they were published photographers they lead a very exciting life Sal was booked as the worlds youngest mind reader back in the late 20s and had studios in Manhattan for over 60 years his little brother the famous Captain Tony X mobster out of New Jersey became a famous rum smuggler out of Key West 40s and 50s eventually bought the original Bar and then became mayor of that crazy island his whole life is documented on home and then there is captain Tony‘s oldest grandson who is been a public photographer for over 42 years mostly covering the evil wicked nightlife from Key West to Manhattan he also had mini Studios and published over 1200 exotic dancers this category right here has over 900 images with really funny stories gangsters models very interesting people of New York City things people a
If you go through some of my families Images with some pretty fascinating stories take a break and go to the published articles and stories editors choice American photo you will see an incredible five page story on our accomplishments this story went worldwide and got me hooked up with all my Hollywood connections Beside our book deal We have all kinds of crazy things going on still looking for that perfect partner that’s how I do things
In 1947 Captain Tony fled Elizabeth New Jersey he actually had two contracts out on him one of those New Jersey mob things his older brother Sal it was very good friends with Tennessee Williams, Tennessee told Tony if you want to hide out key west was the place and that’s where my grandfather went he ended up arriving broke because he gambled all his money in Miami at the dog track that’s originally how we got in this predicament in New Jersey Anyway like his older brother Sal Tony love to take photos he took one of Sal‘s cameras with him when he arrived in Key West he took a bunch of photos you’ll see them in this category hundreds of them with some interesting stories there is actually 950 images that all of us has taken the last 90 years with great stories it’s worth going through You will get to watch the birth of a book a comedic look at a sexually driven mob family pretty funny stuff this site has been around for 20 years and I’m still working on it
