Forget about this shirt this is an incredible category on this site over 400 Pretty wild stories pertaining to the family with photo back up I spent five years on this project we have been doing talk text so there is some grammar problems try to get through them till I fix them
Let me bring you back 100 years in time well actually 98 the year 1923 My great grandfather Luigi takes his three boys Sal Captain Tony and great uncle Luigi great uncle Joey he wasn’t born yet Anyway my great grandpa father had this scrap metal company in Elizabeth New Jersey he never bought any metal and never sold any metal but boy was he really busy with his cousin in Chicago Frank Costello Frank eventually took over the Peacock lounge and the Otis beer Tunnel in the late 20s in Chicago that’s where Sal was book as the world John gets mind reader and piano player If you look at the category on this site Published Stories in articles I will see you all the great ass with Sal’s face all over it there’s over 400 images on this site with story back up
Beside me publishing over 1200 exotic dancers back in the 80s and early 90s there’s hundreds that I photographed that were never published like the strong lady right here if you stay with this category that you’re on right now you will see over 450 images of some cool stuff between Sal and myself there’s a lot of girls in here that I couldn’t Put on Facebook So there are some treasures throughout this category
As great uncle Sal always said the subject is the most important and a photo but the surroundings and backdrop really contribute if you stay on this category you will see 450 really cool images that Sal and myself have taken as far back as 1929 there is even a whole section Of very interesting photos that Captain Tony has taken throughout his life enjoy this amazing category
These are some of Sal‘s buddies in 1951 when Sal was traveling with the seafarers union taking a trip around the world in one of their ships during the Korean War Sal ended up being a under cover photographer for the OSS that was CIA back then that’s right Sal was a secret agent Taking photos of all the ships in transit in the international waterways and also ports around the world
What you’re looking at here is it original negative from 1928 this porch it was taken at my great grandfathers house Luigi by Sal he was 17 that statue on the right side I gave to my sister as a present it said her husband‘s man cave I never knew how old it was Till I found this negative
If you go to either one of my main websites portraitsofnewyork.com or my Image bank of New York mia5.com you will have the opportunity to view 65,000 of my original photos of the 30 years I spent in Manhattan I actually edited them out of 300,000 Remember I spent 30 years Photographing many events parties and some pretty crazy soirées and then of course all the busy intersections in the Big Apple I haven’t yet Met anyone photographer to match my numbers Sorry about the bragging it’s an Italian New Jersey thing I can’t help it
Please read this carefully I just took a picture of this original large 8 x 10 negative it was done of my great uncle Sal in 1928 he was 17 years old back then just got out of Rahway State prison for arm robbery he was innocent Ofcourse this was his first real professional promo picture done in New York City there has been hundreds of photos taken of him and stories written you see he was the worlds youngest mind reader and played in clubs all over the country while he was playing the piano a very unique act you could see all these published stories and advertisements on this site Anyway this category that you’re on right now has over 400 spectacular images that Sal has taken and myself even Captain Tony took a lot of great photos I worked on this for the last two years putting all the stories with the photos take your time and follow the families adventures As far back as the late 20s till present most of these images are going to be in the book, A comedic look Add a sexually driv