THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Shellackhead wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:49 pm Any shows,books,movies,videos about this war out there?

Sullycantwell wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:24 am

Shellackhead wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:22 pm Wonder if the going to mattress sentence came out of this war & not the Banana war in the 60s.

I also imagine how was life like in the neighborhoods during this war? Was it all out warfare or were the shootings mostly carried out in specific areas in NYC? Also, the Reina/Lucchese family was born before or after the war?

Joe Valachi quoted Salvatore Maranzano who said that, so it was at least around by the Castellammarese war

As for the Luchese/Genovese split, it appears the Genovese are the youngest family. After Morello got out and went to war with D'Aquila it appears Masseria and him headed a rebel faction of Loiacano's group, so the Luchese's seem to have been born when Morello was originally boss long before the war.

Shellackhead wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:22 pm Wonder if the going to mattress sentence came out of this war & not the Banana war in the 60s.

I also imagine how was life like in the neighborhoods during this war? Was it all out warfare or were the shootings mostly carried out in specific areas in NYC? Also, the Reina/Lucchese family was born before or after the war?

Sullycantwell wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 1:01 pm Great list, only big addition would be David Critchley's "The Origin Of Organized Crime In America."

chin_gigante wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:08 am Testimony of Joseph Valachi before the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (29 October 1963)
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/ ... frontcover

'The Real Thing' by Joseph Valachi (1964)
https://mafiahistory.us/a023/therealthing.htm

'The Valachi Papers' by Peter Maas (1968)

'East Side, West Side: Organising Crime in New York, 1930-1950' by Alan Block (1980)

'A Man of Honour: An Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno' by Joseph Bonanno (1983)

'Before Bruno: The History of the Philadelphia Mafia, Book 1, 1880-1931' by Celeste Morello (1999)
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/I ... 777%2C4093

'Before Bruno: The History of the Philadelphia Mafia, Book 2, 1931-1946' by Celeste Morello (2001)
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/I ... 739%2C4073

'The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno: The Final Secrets of a Life in the Mafia' by Gary Abramovitz and Salvatore Bonanno (2011)

Informer Magazine 'Early New York Mafia: An Alternate Theory' (May 2014)
https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/739915

Informer Magazine 'Nicola Gentile: Chronicler of early US Mafia history' (October 2020)
https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1858448