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Re: In the shadow of the mob

by FriendofHenry » Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:03 pm

Although I've seen the youtube Doc Phat posted, it's always a trip back in time for me.
I guess you would have had to experience those days in person to really understand and appreciate them. Yes: Youngstown was a better, safer town then.
Some of the places and characters shown, not the PHD types, but the real people were fascinating. Damon Runyon couldn't create these charters.
Cicero's, shown in the beginning, was owned by Vince DiNero. It was a high line restaurant on Market Street in the Uptown area. It was the place to be and be seen.
Well known for the Lemon Tree Lounge with a live lemon tree at one end of the bar to the second level balcony overlooking the lounge where the prime seats for dining were located.
The damage shown was from the night Vince was killed when he started his car parked across the street. Although he switched cars almost daily, they got him anyway.
Some of the interviews were priceless. Don, Bull Moose, Hanni saying that he thought Joey was involved with Pittsburgh. Then scratching his head, ya the Carabbia's I heard Cleveland ;)
Maybe the most unoticed and least known was the brief shot of Joey walking down a hall with his attorney in the background. Who later became the President of the Cleveland Browns.
Those were the days my friends, I thought they would never end - They did :(

Re: In the shadow of the mob

by SonnyBlackstein » Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:43 am

Pogo The Clown wrote:I think it is just a general nostalgia White people have for the old days when America was still a White and somewhat sane country.


I see no irony between your words and your avatars pogo.

:mrgreen:

Re: In the shadow of the mob

by Pogo The Clown » Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:14 am

I think it is just a general nostalgia White people have for the old days when America was still a White and somewhat sane country. You can find a similiar sentiment in places that never had a mob presence.


Pogo

Re: In the shadow of the mob

by SonnyBlackstein » Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:36 am

B. wrote:I don't know anything about Youngstown, but if crime is inevitable I'd rather have the Italians running it than other ethnic groups.

Second this.

Re: In the shadow of the mob

by B. » Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:32 am

I don't know anything about Youngstown, but if crime is inevitable I'd rather have the Italians running it than other ethnic groups.

Re: In the shadow of the mob

by Ivan » Thu Feb 25, 2016 1:32 am

phatmatress777 wrote:It's very a romanticized doc it interviews Youngstown citizens who wish the mob was back there and how it was a better place when the mob ran it.
Hell, half the older people I know from Youngstown say this. (Not all of them, but some of them are pretty fond of the good old mob days.) I know one guy in Columbus who moved there from Youngstown to run some restaurants and he talks about people like the Carabbia brothers as if they were sports heroes or something.

Re: In the shadow of the mob

by phatmatress777 » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:46 pm

It's very a romanticized doc it interviews Youngstown citizens who wish the mob was back there and how it was a better place when the mob ran it. The best quote in it " in Youngstown we weren't worried about organized crime we were worried about disorganized crime... The mob controlled the dumb criminals" many old timers from Pittsburgh feel this way. The town of new Kensington pa would love for the old days of the mob instead of these "minority" teenage gangs running around creating chaos for no reason.


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In the shadow of the mob

by phatmatress777 » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:32 pm

A nice little doc about Youngstown Pittsburgh the mahoning valley and the Pittsburgh mob family. I've never seen it and it's always nice to find a new doc on YouTube.

http://youtu.be/fDPDSMw4qpY


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