Serpiente, did you know Buddy who had this great club in AC back in the 80's?

DO you mean the disco on new york and the boardwalk ?

Just curious...nothing important though. Reason i wondered was because of his sister going into the WPP and Nicky's hatred of her after Phil flipped and how that shit worked out after their mother passed away. Then if the sister did get the property, who got it when she died? Who knows maybe Phil inherited it. In his book Phil said Scarfo blamed him and his mother for driving Mark to try to kill himself. Naturally Scarfo wouldn't blame himself for it. It would drive Scarfo Sr totally insane if Phil somehow ended up with the family property.

yes, but he used to also own one on top of an Italian restaurant on the corner. I think know he is at the Hard Rock Hotel in florida. the guys did very well. I think the clucb was either Deja vu or surfside?

u r right but before it was shea paree .you know alot about the guys how old r u...The other clubs you speak of were down here in margate

sorry shea first late 70s very begining of disco

What corner ..? i can tell u i need the aprox street.

Used to go down there a lot when they first opened Gambling. The clubs were the best. l also used to go to the greenhouse. Never went to that DJ jerkoff's place in MArgate. Buddy's was always too good of a time.
About the Philly Mob, saw a few guys when I was out, some loud mouths and obvious some where gentlemen. Never understood why Philadelphia made Ron Previte and because what happened with George Fresolone, the Commission should have stopped recognizing them.

Buddy is good people and knew how to run a club, But the Philly guys are and were assholes so he had to b connected to b able to touch them when they went crazy..and that guy that helped him was Phil..Phil was as cool as a cucumber sr.was the only one that rattled Phil. Previte complete idiot and his boss was also he could not get Italians to work for him he had xcops german Irish Dutch..Previte is Italian but he is not right.geo flipped and then died..dont know his blood line .

Margate the Geeter with the heater.gave nicky sr. cash that how he stayed around..ooo and we drank all his booze.

@Serpiente: What ever happened to Anthony "Spike" DiGregorio? I just finished Blood and Honor the other day and I don't believe there was made any mention of what happened to him after Scarfo was arrested.

Also, is the pizzeria where John Stanfa worked still in existence?

I think he went to vegas i think and got pinched ..but not sure you know it all fell apart quick in A.C. after phil flipped.

yes Giancarlo his sister is in the wwp.

Yeah he was hiding Nicky Milano after he went on the run the feds found him in December '88 at Spikes place out their, anyone know if Spike was charged for hiding him?

According to Leonetti's book Spike was in florida then was in Vegas, and then he moved back to Florida and died there. He doesn't give the year though.

Phil's mother died in 1999 so i guess she's not in the WPP anymore.

Salvie's voice @ 0.59-1.02?

"Just let us go by. Excuse us". Never heard Salvie on tape before but I think that's him. He was closest to the cameras in that footage and it's not Scarfo or Leonetti.

What do you guys think?

That house is being forclosed on I believe. A friend of mine does real estate in Nj

dont know who got it but the apt.buliding is owned by Melo LLC and Nickys house is owned by a Selvi Manduso...

Hey Serpiente been following your posts,very knowledgeable and nice guy to boot.I also read that Leonetti book and that part about the guy that was paid maybe a couple of hundred a week plus free rent was Ford's brother.You could have wrote that book.was ''Nick the Blade'' as crazy as they say.i liked that 1 story at this coffeehouse on the boardwalk where some bookies and stuff would hang and they made fun of and always cheated this 1 guy out of his money.So the ''Blade'' goes in and sits down and doesn't even look at his cards and says another winner,and he kept doing it until he got back all the guy's money.I loved that story.

Yes just like Phil said give him booze and its over.when i was 14 he was drunk and he would tell it i mean all of it..and i can see him doing the card game thing but he did not tell me that..tell you what would make him nuts when his son would come around and we would yell penknife dont kmow y Blade would go crazy but he did..dont say penknife around him..he really would shot you.

Fords bro yea did not know it was in the book i guess bc i was there and we all asked who was around,,i did read the book .And he put my fam name in it but he was nice..

Yes I see what your saying it seemed like the Blade could turn on you at a minute's notice.I wasn't sure if that was his son but I kind of figured it was.I love those old stories.

yea me to i have not talked about then in a long time,we were just kids .Phil and me and Lawrence all hit the 18 year old drinking age.so we could go anywhere at 17

In Leonetti's book there was a decent picture of The Blade in Leesburg State Prison. Phil went to visit him there one day. Looks like it's from the early 70's.

yea it is deff.from then,Blade aged so quick dont remember if he had organ problems but yea he fell apart fast booze he would binge .,

is that lawrence merlino you speak of?

Yes

i know he is older ,but i think you get what in mean..drinking age was 18 for a while around here..i guess all over

Yep...18 was the age back then in NJ. So if you were even close, say 15 with some decent fake id you had a shot at getting served. Fake ABC cards were pretty popular back in those days.

ok then u must be around 53to56 or have alot of time on your hands..thats what we did