My first black-and-white photo published in Key West through Kennedy Studios 1978 Smathers Beach a front was coming in
What you’re looking at here is a lot of images of Key West from the 50s and 60s my grandfather Captain Tony was no slouch with a camera he had a great 2 1/4 Kodak professional camera He was always taking pictures of his fishing trips people hanging at the bar Anyway I inherited 1200 and negatives of his I printed up some of them they’re great there’s a lot I didn’t touch yet can’t wait
I love this picture of my grandfather and for my aunts Alicia Coral little Toni and Josephine here’s the funny part my dad is the oldest brother to everybody he’s 85 now and I’m the oldest grandson 65 older than most of my aunts and here’s the real funny thing my grandfather had four wives and a bunch of mistresses that’s why there is five more uncles and two more aunts Totaling 14 aunts an uncles I have That’s why our first book is a comedic look at a sexually driven mob Family disorganized crime At the highest level
Sometimes you can feel how beautiful it is I have done postcards for years This isn’t a fancy sunset but to me it’s a spectacular image I love the boat the kid the clouds
One of those Key West memories that’s my partner in one of the Sal projects Mr. Kerry Martin and my wife in the middle we were drinking Petrone margaritas at the pool during the day when I was walking to the bar I slipped on a piece of lemon and went flying I didn’t get hurt but I made a big thing about it The manager came over right away I told him who I was and we’re doing a project about key west I told him I don’t want to go to the hospital or go through paperwork just take care of us today and tonight we had lunch and dinner there and cocktails all night I did stub my toe a little bit what a great time
The day nine illegal mercenaries rated our store in Chinatown Little do they know we were warned ahead of time buy one of our inside guys they thought we had illegal purses and watches and Hi end sneakers in the basement They were correct but we got rid of everything and they knew what we did the thing is when these guys raid your store you can call the police because you have so much illegal activity going on then you’ll really get in trouble I miss Chinatown
When Sal was on one of his trips traveling around the world with the OSS that was CAA back then he stopped off in India for three months and helped one of the high priest making these giant heads he told me he picked up a lot of knowledge there And smoke some great hash
In 2005 I bought myself a nice big Fleetwood Cadillac an old one the backseat was massive it had all blue velvet seats and door panels I did a lot of portfolios in the backseat they came out really cool even did a bunch of nudes
I was very fortunate to work for Herbert Fox productions he was a big party promoter as far back as the studio 54 days he had the magic black book of 5000 girls who are models or want to be models he would find a certain bar or nightclub and make a deal with the owner he would do model tryouts and then mix it in with a fashion party and there was always one hour open bar free vodka or beers wine I pulled hundreds of portfolio jobs out of these events the funny thing is he still doing it 45 years later I salute you Herbert
Yes great uncle Sal did nudes a lot of pinup girls in the late 40s and 50s I like this one
