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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Did you ask the handsome husky guido for a date? I am no finnuch but know an invitation for an ass kicking. Hey Gotti was the dapper Don, I remember what he was wearing on that specific occasion and it was a polo or a La Coste windbreaker but a loud color. Behind his back his friends called him 'Cump' due to his proclivity for sometimes loud clothing.
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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I didn't really know him, and didn't know at the time that he was connected, but I used to see Frank Langano in the diner he later got killed outside of. I remember thinking that he was a sharp dresser kind of like John Gotti, but thought nothing of it. I thought he was just another Italian American gentleman that moved down from the city. (That should have been a clue, most owners/managers of diners in NJ are Greek, not Italian) He seemed like a very normal guy. Apparently he was managing the place himself, he used to work the cash register and everything. Whatever his crimes, he did seem to work hard at legitimate business. Wait a second, a diner in Jersey not owned by Greeks!?! Now that's shocking and unique....
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Wait a second, a diner in Jersey not owned by Greeks!?! Now that's shocking and unique....
I believe he was a part owner. The the other owners must have owed him money or something? Or maybe he bought in to the business to have a front?
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Hemmingways was a night club called Temptations since the late 70's, very early 80's and owned by an italian guy names Eugene up until late 90's or early 2000 when he sold to the current owner. I was at Temps a lot back in the day and you would of been hard pressed to see hotter girls than the one's at temps. I eat at hemmingways and they have decent food.
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Not wiseguys but I was locked up with David "Super Dave" Warner years back. I got on laundry detail and interacted with him some since I could move around and communicate with everyone. Seemed like a nice guy who was intelligent. For those who don't know who he is, he was once a huge kingpin
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Hey Uncle Vig!
One of the very first places I ever worked was Hemmingways. I started working there in 1980 and there were lines out the door every weekend. Big "Tino" was the doorman.
Boy was that a "hangout". The place was always crawling with gangsters in the 1980's. There were also what we used to call "half a wiseguy's", you know, wannabees with the white tie and black suit and the pinky rings who talked all kinds of shit but were connected to nobody. Just bullshit artists.
Its been my experience that the really heavy guys didn't swagger quite so much.
The owner was a crazy Russian guy named George Young. Every night when I'd walk in he'd say hello to me between long snorts. This guy was doing so much coke he couldn't say three words without his brains falling out of his nostrills.
The place was a hot spot for years, until it finally closed sometime in the mid 90's.
Funny story......My uncle was a carpenter and he did some re modeling when it became a gay place called "ManKind".
He told me that the new owners wanted some walls taken out upstairs where the office was. When they started chopping into the walls they found bags of this sticky yellow stuff. And off duty cop told them it was bags of coke that were probably hidden in those walls 10 or 15 years ago. The Florida humidity just got to them and ruined all of it.
Hollywood was a swinging place back then. Loaded with late night clubs and lots of gangsters during the winter months.....
Thanks for bringing up good old Hemminways.
Sal Ill be Damned! Ya my Grampa when he retired made sandwiches there his name was Al Ross, it was Rossi or Rossilini at Ellis Island he was an old school gambler, half ass connected because of his own gambling habit so he ran card games, dice etc. It was through him that I met David Szyperski who became my best friend. Who the fuck was that? that was Jake Lanskys Grandson brother of Meyer Lansky. They owned the Diplomat. I never met Meyer but I knew Jake and his beautiful elegant wife Ann Lansky. I digress.. Ya in the Winter time the whole mob was down in Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale I remember working on a boat to do a repair at pier #66 Marina and the boat at the next slip was 'Usual Suspects' Nicky Scarfos Boat. They were all in Pier 66 drinking but left a Goombah on the boat at all times to prevent bugs, or bombs I guess. They were not a friendly bunch, They gave me the stinkeye just for being near them doing my job.
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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When we were sneaking into Philly bars in the 1990s you could see Joey Merlino and his crew all the time in certain spots--in Old City, you'd see them at The Continental, or at The Five Spot, which had swing dancing when that became huge, and then later became more of a hip hop spot before it "burned down accidentally." The local weekly used to have a MobWatch page where they'd profile these guys, and then you'd see them drinking it up down the bar from you a week later, it was fun.
The Five Spot had been Ralph Natale's hangout, and Phil Testa's before him, when it was called Virgilio's.
Merlino was a short, slight guy, and George Borgesi was a fire hydrant, but some of the others--Stevie Mazzone, Marty Angelina--were big guys, and big partiers.
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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I'm a Jersey guy and I work in the city (Manhattan) but at a certain period in my life I was dating a South Philly Italian girl. I've seen my fair share of the Jersey crew Luchesse's, I ran into Andrew Merola at a Pizzeria once , and have seen a ton of DeCavalcantes where I come from in Jersey.
However, The Philly guys are something else! They're like a traveling circus party and I used to see them out all the time in South Philly and Margate when I was dating this girl. It's hard to explain to outsiders and I'm an outsider but they're like the popular kids in HS who show up to the parties and then the party is instantly cool. Plus everyone gossips about everyone's business there. Even when this girl was bringing me around the South Philly locals kept saying that I was an undercover cop! South Philly is a very insular community and everyone is related or Knows each other . I used to see all the Philly guys who were out at the time: Marty Angelina was a complete nasty fall down drunk, Uncle Joe was extremely polite, I saw Stevie Mazzone and Phil Ligambi once heading into a Borgata suite in AC together wearing those ghetto Powder Blue Colored Yankees hats (WTF?!?), I saw Phil Narducci at The Greenhouse in Margate once right when he first got out, I saw Johnny Chang at Chickies and Pete's, my favorite is at Quattro in South Philly I once saw Sonny Mazzone throw a stink bomb/smokebomb into the packed men's room there and run away giggling !! HAHAHA That was funny...
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Salvi, No Na you aren't being an ass,, I was incorrect thanks for catching that. Jakes grandson worked at the diplomat and of course his family had connections with the diplomat. You are correct Meyer owned secretly I think the Singapore and others. I used to drive Jake Lanskys widow Anna to another old widows home on Sundays to visit a woman named Kovolick, her husband was known as 'Phil the Stick' he ended upa trunk job I believe. Here is another old place you remember. Joe Sonkens Gold Coast in A1A. [img:center]http://[/img] and a Wikipedia link I just found on Phil the Stick. I wish to God I could have had the deftness to ask these people more questions on Mob history. Even the old ladies pretended that there was no mob, old school standups who watched and were part of the formation of the modern day Cosa Nostra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kovolick
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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Hemmingways was a night club called Temptations since the late 70's, very early 80's and owned by an italian guy names Eugene up until late 90's or early 2000 when he sold to the current owner. I was at Temps a lot back in the day and you would of been hard pressed to see hotter girls than the one's at temps. I eat at hemmingways and they have decent food. Are you talking about the place in Florida? I don't remember a place called temptations but thanagainnames change and I don't keep up.
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Re: Chance encounters with wiseguys?
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