sal catalano

[axx]

Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato

Great pic. amato is very tall wow. I thought he was short

Offhand I don’t recall their heights. It may be less that Baldo (and Cesare) were particularly tall but rather that Catalano and Ganci were short.

Frank Fiordolino mentioned in one of those MBA q&a-s that Amato is very tall.

[Browniety86]

I find Last Days of the Sicilians to be the best read on the Pizza Connection and Sal Catalano, Baldo, Bonventre and the rest. The actual book The Pizza Connection is good but is very legalistic. When I read one I normally have the other next to it for reference.

I tried to get into that book once and just couldnt...

Last Days of the Sicilians, or Pizza Connection? I thought Last Days was fine, not great but good, but Pizza Connection is hard to get through. I work at a university and before I owned it I had checked it out from our university library a couple times but it's kept at the Law School library.

Last Days of The Sicilians...I made it about 100 pages in...but I loved "Gangland: How The FBI Broke The Mob", which alot of people thought was boring...so to each his own I guess...

[PolackTony]

Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato

Great pic. amato is very tall wow. I thought he was short

Offhand I don’t recall their heights. It may be less that Baldo (and Cesare) were particularly tall but rather that Catalano and Ganci were short.

Frank Fiordolino mentioned in one of those MBA q&a-s that Amato is very tall.

Anyone know for sure how tall Catalano is?

[axx]

Well amato is 5'11

[Shellackhead]

Well amato is 5'11

Thats average height.

[PolackTony]

Well amato is 5'11

Thats average height.

For a Sicilian, he’s a giant. So everyone was right

[PolackTony]

Hadn’t realized also that Baldo lived in Gravesend. I guess I had just assumed that he stayed up by Middle Village.

[newera_212]

Hadn’t realized also that Baldo lived in Gravesend. I guess I had just assumed that he stayed up by Middle Village.

Same here - that's pretty crazy. Figured he was up in glendale, MV, etc. or even Bushwick. I wonder how plugged into MV, Ridgewood, etc. and involved he really was.... besides having business interests and old country friends around there. Things in the past made it sound like he was in "charge" of the Giannini crew but it looks things weren't as streamlined and formal with all of those kids as previously speculated. Just a loose interchanging group of kids not under one specific crime family/person with immigrant or 1st generation parents.

Where did Cesare live at?

[B.]

Bonventre lived and had his social club down in that part of Brooklyn. Might have been Bensonhurst not Gravesend but it was in those same neighborhoods.

[NYNighthawk]

Cesar got his in the end and Ganci died from lung cancer. Hard to believe looking at him he had a goomad, I guess shewas attracted to his heroin money!