How about Shellack Head?

Please can you tell what year Doc's was opened and what crew hung out there?Thank you very much in advance

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I think that came from the Frank & Fritzy wiretaps, they used to refer to him as "How's your Aunt?"

Correct. But but it wasn't a regular thing throughout the entire family like the hand gesture. In other words, that's something they came up with amongst themselves. And you have to realize that Fritzy was on Vince's shit list for years because of that dead cop. Now, Fritzy is a very well liked guy. But it's a miracle that Vince gave him a pass on all that.

Yup, exactly...I'm surprised *rubbing my chin* never got pressed by the others families to whack Giovanelli?...Gigante must of really loved that guy.




Hope you're hanging in there, PB.

Tony Accardo like his nickname joe batters or JB after Al Capone name him that after Tony killed two guys with a baseball bat

Thomas Lucchese never liked his "Tommy Three-Finger Brown" nickname because of a work-related injury that amputated his right thumb and index finger in his teens and because Mordecai Brown, a baseball pitcher, at that time had a similar injury. While being booked for auto theft in 1920, a cop nicknamed him Three-Finger Brown, a name which he hated, similar to Joe "Bananas" Bonanno, who preferred to call himself Don Peppino. I remember reading Selwyn Raab's "Five Families" where Tony Corallo once referred to Lucchese as Tommy Brown in a wire-tapped convo with his men.

I'm sure Lucchese preferred to use "Tommy Brown" as an alias over "Three-Finger Brown"

Ricca "The Waiter"

Jackie D'Amico hated his.

He got rhinoplasty.

Moe is that a fact D'amico got a nose job? What a vain dude even for that life

The Gotti syndrome is still affecting Jackie nose

Good looking sal vitale loved his, but he's far from good looking.

Lil Al D'Arco was given the moniker Professor after Gas thought lil Al didn't sound good given his status

No idea if Boobie liked his or where it came from

Like "Sammy bull" nobody called nick caramadi Nicky the crow. Simply "crow" or Nicky crow

Correct. But a lot of black and hispanic nicknames are self proclaimed whereas italians are usually given their nicknames based upon appearance, an incident that occurred, or simply something that started as an inside joke.

I also think it was the times after about late 80's I don't hear them being given out and or being used ...

Lawrence Merlino (Yogi) was introduced to me as Yogi and many in this area called him by his nickname . Never asked if he liked it never asked where he got it .., just did not do shit like that back in the day ..

Now days people ask everything.....

Yeah D'Amico had a "roman" nose and got surgery to correct it.