West coast families were San Francisco and San Jose, both now defunct, and Los Angeles, which only has a few remaining members who are either retired or answer to New York.

Dallas boss Joseph Civello was Carlos Marcello's guy (New Orleans). Dallas and Gavelston have a deep organized crime history, through Benny Binion and the Maceo family.

I started a thread on the Dallas family about a year ago where Giacomo and others provided great information.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=923565

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea