THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Thanks so much! Hope you didn’t have to spend too much time looking.

Not sure. His father was Salvatore LoCascio who worked as a bricklayer and came to the US from Baucina in 1920, arriving to a brother near the Bowery and East Village in Lower Manhattan. Married in the Bronx in 1928 where he remained.

Also I was wrong about the Lucchese LoCascios being from Baucina. Their father Giuseppe was born in Bolognetta (Pippo Bono's hometown) and listed that as his last foreign residence. Bolognetta is very close to Baucina though and the LoCascios were close to the Dippolitos (future LA leaders who started as Lucchese associates) who came from Baucina. When Salvatore Dippolito came to NYC he was supposed to be accompanied by a fellow Baucinese named Calogero LoCascio who was heading to a brother named Giuseppe on Christie Street who I assumed was the father of the Lucchese members but now I'm not sure. Calogero LoCascio ended up in the Bronx, where the Baucinese Gambino LoCascios lived. Either way the Lucchese LoCascios were from a town next to Baucina and had close ties to Baucinesi in NYC but I'm doubting a connection to the Gambino ones.

Who is this Frankie Smug they mention in the video?......Sol

B. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:33 pm Has he ever been confirmed as a member?

That one Ravenite tape always intrigued me:

GOTTI: But that’s what I, I, I’m tellin’ you. And you guys might think I’m crazy. You know we were fuckin’ prisoners (phonetic), guys like me and you, when we caught that fuck in ’57. We were babies, sixteen and seventeen. You were fifteen and fourteen. But we were fucked. But how old were you when you became a “friend,” Frank?

LOCASCIO: Twenty-three.

GOTTI: Twenty-three. You got bred this way! You got, this— He got it rammed down his fuckin’ throat.

Gotti saying Frank was "bred this way" made me wonder if older LoCascio relatives were members. They were from Baucina like the LoCascios of the Lucchese Family.

Hasn't Mikey Scars said either Loc's father or grandfather was a member?

dave wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 7:45 pm

Cheech wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:22 pm Cornerboy. There was a video on youtube not to long ago where some guys went around old new york. And one episode they go to joe’s club and talk about him and franks son. I looked for u but could not find it. Maybe someone else knows what i mean

https://youtu.be/DxJiLD8HPVE?si=hybXduA633IGOa-U

Thanks dave. Cornerboy there you go

Has he ever been confirmed as a member?

That one Ravenite tape always intrigued me:

GOTTI: But that’s what I, I, I’m tellin’ you. And you guys might think I’m crazy. You know we were fuckin’ prisoners (phonetic), guys like me and you, when we caught that fuck in ’57. We were babies, sixteen and seventeen. You were fifteen and fourteen. But we were fucked. But how old were you when you became a “friend,” Frank?

LOCASCIO: Twenty-three.

GOTTI: Twenty-three. You got bred this way! You got, this— He got it rammed down his fuckin’ throat.

Gotti saying Frank was "bred this way" made me wonder if older LoCascio relatives were members. They were from Baucina like the LoCascios of the Lucchese Family.

Cheech wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:22 pm Cornerboy. There was a video on youtube not to long ago where some guys went around old new york. And one episode they go to joe’s club and talk about him and franks son. I looked for u but could not find it. Maybe someone else knows what i mean

https://youtu.be/DxJiLD8HPVE?si=hybXduA633IGOa-U

In the last few years there's been so much new info on made guys who were relatively unknown. I'm guessing the family members are more talkative after the members die or the decline in mafia or just youtube and all the podcasts

And owned real estate down the Carolinas

Someone posted a picture of him on a Facebook page I seen. Brief bio was he was in the medical supplies hustle. MRIs. Medical billing ect. Bald guy I guess the opposite of Frankie's super hair

Cornerboy. There was a video on youtube not to long ago where some guys went around old new york. And one episode they go to joe’s club and talk about him and franks son. I looked for u but could not find it. Maybe someone else knows what i mean

If anyone has more info pls add. Thanks Charlie

Died a couple or three years ago I wanna say. Very good and low-key guy. Had his club by the zoo for years, frequented by all families.

I think his name is Joe. Anyone have any details? Thanks