Really like this slide that’s my grandfather captain Tony in the middle with my great aunt Palma great uncle Lou’s wife The rest of the people are a couple more of my aunts and uncles I wasn’t born yet this is in Elizabeth New Jersey Captain Tony bult his own built-in swimming pool he stole some industrial filter pump from the docks in Elizabeth I think he made the first Jacuzzi I love playing with these large slides and cropping them like I did here pretty cool, I like the wall that Sal painted in the background he did a lot of photo shoots they’re also used great uncle Lou’s wife for a lot of different ads back in the 30s and 40s

The year 1964 at the time my grandfather Captain Tony was known as that mob guy from New Jersey he came to that little crazy island to hide out in 1947 between the time he arrived till 1964 he bought a bunch of private charter boats two of them were 65 footers one of them was for smuggling guns rum and spies in and out of Cuba that’s right he worked for the CIA he was a pretty wild guy back then even ran for mayor which he eventually became in the late 80s but what really put them on the map was buying the original Hemingway bar The oldest bar in Key West that’s another whole story that’s going to be chapter 9 in our book when he first took it over the bar it was off-limits to the Navy because of gambling prostitution drugs and some pretty wild gays that hung out there The bar had a great stage they had some pretty wild shows drag shows some after our shows, upstairs on top of the bar gambling prostitution this building was one of the oldest in Key West it was a Morg, icehouse, telegraph Company, and a couple other bars there was even a tree in the back where are they hung people and what was really famous about it it was the original Hemingway bar that’s where Hemingway drank a lot after his key west fishing trips don’t get It mistaken for the bar down the street sloppy Joe’s we are the original one that case was one in court first time I went to the bar was 1969 it was wild back then I was fortunate to start working for my grandfather in 1976 through 1983 about that time I had to get out of Dodge if you look on the far left of both photos you will see one has a patio and one has a little extension that used to be Bob’s Burgers factory that’s why Jimmy wrote the song cheeseburger in Paradise they were the best burgers in Key West back in the 60s and early 70s I took it over in 82 and made the shrimp patio Shrimp and lobster eggrolls were my specialty we have so many stories for our book coming out of that bar I miss that old pirate

This is A Cambodian opium den Sal heard so many stories about them, He wanted to check them out for a bunch of reasons first to try to get a photo which almost got him killed great published story with this photo One of the other reasons was he smoked opium before and seemed to like it a lot and maybe the one main reason was the prostitution that went on above these opium dens he told me some pretty wild stories since he was gay at a level most people don’t know about, but from what he told me above that opium den was that level Indonesia was always famous for the best female impersonators still to this day, Sal ended up staying with a man and a woman At their house Because he was thrown out of that Opium den For taking this one photo he told me he had so much fun there with them and getting high he almost missed getting back on his ship and leaving the Port

Three generations of Terracina’s my grandfather 75 years old my dad 55 and I was 35 we just got done finishing off a bottle of scotch in my grandfathers office it was above Police headquarters at that time, last time I went through there I was in handcuffs 1983, My dad and I even snuck into the bathroom and smoked a joint, 1991 was a hell of a year for the family even great uncle Sal was doing a lot of TV shows 48 hours with Dan In 2020 he was doing this cool thing called tales of Time Square when he photographed there in the 30s and 40s