by SonnyBlackstein » Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:28 pm
Nasabeak wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:42 am
Joe N. Gallo didnt seem to be ashamed, but rather jaded and disillusioned, about it toward the end of his life. “It’s all turning to shit” to Paul; and his candid comments to the Feds - he didn’t even bother to pretend he wasn’t a gangster. His son languishing in jail and him worried about him being raped.
He seemed just sad about it all, at the end. How it had turnt out.
I think he had a lot of unspoken regrets, not the extent that he would’ve flipped - but a “did any of this matter?”
The man went from being an expert hitman, to a Captain at a relatively young age, to Consigliere for three Bosses. Almost making Boss himself.
And he seemed absolutely disillusioned at the end. A sadness comes off him in both the written word we have, and the photos.
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It’s all turning to shit, isn’t it? I mean, you spend your life working on this thing, this thing of ours. You think you’re doing right. Then something happens, something goes off track, you get old, it don’t look like how it used to look. Disappointed. You end up disappointed. And the bitch of it is, you can’t put your finger on what went wrong. You’re doing good, you’re doing good, you’re doing good. But somehow, the way it all adds up, you ain’t done shit. It all ends up small. It all ends up sour.” - Joe N. Gallo, in conversation with Paul Castellano 1983
Good post.
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Joe N. Gallo didnt seem to be ashamed, but rather jaded and disillusioned, about it toward the end of his life. “It’s all turning to shit” to Paul; and his candid comments to the Feds - he didn’t even bother to pretend he wasn’t a gangster. His son languishing in jail and him worried about him being raped.
He seemed just sad about it all, at the end. How it had turnt out.
I think he had a lot of unspoken regrets, not the extent that he would’ve flipped - but a “did any of this matter?”
The man went from being an expert hitman, to a Captain at a relatively young age, to Consigliere for three Bosses. Almost making Boss himself.
And he seemed absolutely disillusioned at the end. A sadness comes off him in both the written word we have, and the photos.
“[i]It’s all turning to shit, isn’t it? I mean, you spend your life working on this thing, this thing of ours. You think you’re doing right. Then something happens, something goes off track, you get old, it don’t look like how it used to look. Disappointed. You end up disappointed. And the bitch of it is, you can’t put your finger on what went wrong. You’re doing good, you’re doing good, you’re doing good. But somehow, the way it all adds up, you ain’t done shit. It all ends up small. It all ends up sour.”[/i] - Joe N. Gallo, in conversation with Paul Castellano 1983
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Good post.