I can remember being a teen and I was in the car with my father and grandfather and they were saying that they had to stop at Skinny's place,and this was often.

Now this was a long time ago but he had a bar called Town Tavern on Altlantic ave between California ave and Iowa ave. on the south side of the street.(obviously run by someone else)

All the guys from Ducktown and from the Chelsea section would go there for what ever they needed ,money or to bet.

I "do not know" if his name was on the license or not ,but he had so many guys to run stuff down here .

That place was right in the middle of the Italian and Irish neighborhoods.
We did "not" have a Irish gang ,they all worked for the Italians as far back as I can recall.