We've all heard of the Ravenite, the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, the Gemini Lounge etc. But does anyone know of any less known mob spots from the past or present?


Thanks.

Palma Boys Social Club in Harlem, it's where Fat Tony Salerno ran his operation out of.

In Youngstown, Youngstown United Music Inc., is where the Naples brothers ran their operations out of from the 1950's to present day.

L.A. Motors in Verona, PA is where Mike Genovese was employed and ran his criminal operation out of. It was renamed Verona Auto Sales.

Allegheny Car Wash on Sandusky Street in Pittsburgh is where Big John LaRocca ran his family for over 40 years.

In Cleveland, one of the main mob hangouts is an Italian Restaurant in Murray Hill (Cleveland's Little Italy Neighborhood on Mayfield Rd) called Nido Italia.

Mosca's in Avondale, LA is where the NOLA LCN held court.

Town and Country Motel is where Carlos Also operated out of.

How 'bout the Hollywood Social Club in Oakland PA, just outside of downtown Pittsburgh.

Thanks for the replies. Any more?

In the Bath Avenue crew documentary they mention the area having a social club on every corner and different crews used to hang out there. Does anybody know the names of social clubs in Brooklyn during the 80s/90s?

I've made a thread about the NYC places before but it would also be interesting to know which of these places we can still visit. For example you can still eat at Mosca's Italian restaurant outside New Orleans. Some of them, like the Ravenite in NY have been turned into retail establishments but I would still love to go in there.

Scroll down a bit on this link and there is Fritzy Giovanelli's old club in Bushwick and some other stuff.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=678702

Does anyone have any pictures of at one time acting boss of the Bonanno family "Anthony Spero's" club located in Bensonhurst Brooklyn or of Angelo Presinzano's bar located at the Fulton Fish market??? And also their Soldiers

Campisi's Egyptian Lounge in Dallas was a big mob hangout during the mob's heyday. Local mobsters and New Orleans and Chicago gangsters often met there. It's still open and local bookies still meet there for meals meetings.

What was Spero's club called?

I'm actually not sure..my uncle was a goodfella he was in speros crew for awhile but it was located on bath ave and bay 17 street

My uncle was actually also very close with Carmine Galante...my uncle crew up down in the lower east side of manhattan in the 30s, 40s and 50s.

wow thats a neat thing to know, any stories you can share?

How about the Holiday House in Monroeville, the meeting place for the top hierarchy of Pittsburgh. Mike Genovese used to meet his top 3 guys there weekly.

Maybe the best place of all, Sonken's Gold Coast Restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale. It was viewed as a "message center" for all mob bosses who owned homes in the South Florida area. Joe Sonken was tied to the Outfit in Chicago and operated this restaurant for decades.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-06...-message-center

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-01-19/news/9201040090_1_meyer-lansky-fbi-gangster

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-05-05/news/9405050122_1_gold-coast-restaurant-racketeering

Jo Jo Pecora's favorite whenever he was in Florida.

Spero's club was called the West End Civic Assoc and is still in use, located on Bath ave just south of 17th ave. Their are numerous active social clubs/caffe's in the area present day

Youngstown in the fifties The Purple Cow was a hangout.

If my memory serves me correctly this was Fats Aiello's "joint". Best of all it was directly across the street from the Police Department ;-)

Yes it was. He was family friend, I always referred to him as Uncle Fatty.

Scroll up and down in this result and you will be able to read about some of the famous mob hangouts in NY. It´s from Eric Ferrara´s book Manhattan Mafia Guide.

http://books.google.se/books?id=Cf7oAVFn...lub&f=false

Roseland in Buffalo NY, site of one major mob rubout.

vagabond club in Cleveland
theatrical lounge cleveland

Hey anybody know of any joints on Federal Hill in Providence? I imagine we go back up there if there is another blizzard so this time I want to know some good places to eat!

On Federal Hill, some of the old hangouts were Constantino's Venda Ravioli as well as Andino's Restaurant. Another bar/restaurant downtown is the Sidebar Grille which is where Bobby DeLuca worked and ran his operations until he flipped and went into WITSEC. However, Providence is decimated and there are no "active" made members left, they're all dead, locked up or in WITSEC.

Achille is not active, semi retired. Matty Gug in prison until 2016. Ruggiero is a businessman, not a mobster...he was Louie's travel companion and friend...not active in LCN and got his button due to his friendship with Louie.

I'm talking about "structured leadership" at this point...When Anthony DiNunzio is the best you could do for a boss, your organization is in trouble. It took him all of 2 seconds to run his mouth to Nicky Skins and get pinched. New England LCN is basically a gang at this point. Yes there are some made guys left...but the family is at a standing 9 count.

tell me this jcb is Achilles dead or locked up is sparo dead or locked up is ruggerio is matty jr, is moriarty is dennis cappiccilo is milisi huh d they are out and active ....man u don't know shit and you act like you know.... the boston socail clubs and old hangouts are most in tact the Florentine café the old soccer club on north st Francesca restaurant is still frequented the old Marconi club is still very active couple of barber shops that's basically a socail clubs ...revere still has a few so does Everett and eastie (east boston) has at least 8 restaurants/café/bars and 5 known socail clubs some of the least exposed places I try to withhold the names for safety precautions but its there the connected guys you know

So you pretty much just gave up all the secret spots on a public internet forum? I mean, I dont necessarily think anything could come from that info....could it?

So you pretty much just gave up all the secret spots on a public internet forum? I mean, I dont necessarily think anything could come from that info....could it? [/quote]

secret spots? You do realize the feds know pretty much everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We could agree to disagree. The last 6 bosses have been indicted, went to prison or cooperated, the "most" active guys in Boston/Providence have been indicted, gone too prison or have cooperated (Limone, Manocchio, Rossetti, Lato, DeLuca, Marapese, St. Laurent, Fat Anthony Dinunzio, Carmen Dinunzio, Chippy Scivola, Matty Gugs etc).

I will say that Spucky Spagnolo is probably the most active who is on the street today, but the organization has been decimated and with the successful prosecutions of the top tiered guys as well as the last 6 bosses, it's hard to argue that the Federal Government isn't winning the war against a severely weakened Patriarca Crime Family. The family is in disarray and is in as bad as shape as Philly if not worse.

The next thing you are going to tell me is that Aaron Hernandez is innocent, right?

I found this information to be somewhat "enlightening" to the general public who is interested in the state of affairs in Providence:

THE GRAYING OF RHODE ISLAND’S MAFIOSOS
As mobster Anthony DiNunzio was sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday, the ranks of the mob continue to grow older, thinner
By W. ZACHARY MALINOWSKI JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
PROVIDENCE — What’s left?
On Wednesday, Anthony L. DiNunzio, the boss of the New England mob, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for his role in collecting thousands of dollars in protection money from the Satin Doll, Cadillac Lounge and Foxy Lady strip clubs.
DiNunzio, 53, of East Boston, is the eighth member or associate of La Cosa Nostra to plead guilty to a felony charge in the past two years and get sentenced to a lengthy prison term. Most of them have been sent to prisons along the Eastern Seaboard.
“It’s a great day for Rhode Island and a good day for New England,” said U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha, on the steps outside U.S. District Court.
Judge William E. Smith, acting on a recommendation from the prosecution, gave DiNunzio the highest end of the federal sentencing guideline range for being the mob boss. The minimum sentence was 5 years, 3 months.
“You’re the person at the top,” Smith said. “When you’re at the top, you have to take the most responsibility.”
DiNunzio and Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, of Providence, who preceded DiNunzio as mob boss, are the two highest-ranking mobsters snared in the federal, state and local investigation that was launched several years ago.
Manocchio, 85, who is serving a 5 1/2-year sentence in North Carolina, is the last head of the New England mob from Rhode Island. After he stepped down in 2009, the power base of organized crime in the region shifted from Providence to Boston.
Providence had been the headquarters for more than 50 years, dating to the days of Raymond L.S. Patriarca, the powerful boss who ran the criminal rackets across New England from the Coin-o-Matic storefront on Atwells Avenue.
“The made guys as we know it in Rhode Island are decimated,” said Col. Steven G. O’Donnell, head of the Rhode Island State Police and a longtime mob investigator. “There’s a huge void.”
The list of remaining made members, or formally inducted members of the mob in the Rhode Island area, has grown thin and old. Those remaining are: William “Billy Black” or “Blackjack” Del-Santo, of Narragansett; Joseph Achille, who lives in the North End of Providence; Vito DeLuca, of Seekonk; Pasquale “Pat” Galea, of Providence, and Joseph Ruggiero, a successful businessman with a home in the upscale Nayatt Point section of Barrington.
O’Donnell said Ruggiero has “zero authority,” because underworld figures have told him that Ruggiero paid the mob a “large amount of money” to be inducted into La Cosa Nostra. He was frequently in the company of Manocchio and traveled to Italy with him in July 2009.
Law enforcement officials say DelSanto suffered a stroke several years ago and Achille has had health problems.
All of them, except Ruggiero, are over 65.
O’Donnell said the five remaining mobsters may dabble in loan-sharking and gambling, but their activities are limited. “They have all had the ‘made guy’ status for years, but the world has changed,” he said.
Robert P. DeLuca Sr., a longtime capo regime in the Patriarca crime family, disappeared from his house in North Providence with his wife and two small children in the summer of 2011. It’s widely believed that he has been cooperating with law enforcement authorities.
Richard DesLauriers, who heads the FBI office in Boston, said the conviction of DiNunzio and eight others has been a serious blow to the Rhode Island mob, but organized crime remains in Boston and elsewhere in the region.
“I would be hesitant to say that it’s been completely eradicated throughout New England,” he said.
On Wednesday afternoon, DiNunzio, who was handcuffed and wore leg chains, was led into court in a khaki prison-issued smock and matching pajama-type pants. The heavy-set mob boss was grayer and appeared as though he had lost weight since his first appearance in court last spring.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William J. Ferland sought the maximum sentence of 6 1/2 years, citing DiNunzio’s “arrogance ” and “disdain for the law.” He said that in May 2011 the mob boss accepted a cash payment from Edward C. Lato, a ranking Rhode Island mobster, on a street in Boston’s North End.
Lato was one of the mobsters nailed in the racketeering investigation and is serving a lengthy sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina.
At the time, Ferland said, DiNunzio knew that the authorities were deep into their investigation and had already nabbed Manocchio for accepting a strip club protection payment in Providence. Nonetheless, DiNunzio continued on with his criminal ways.
Investigators, armed with a warrant, seized the money from DiNunzio.
Afterward, Ferland said, DiNunzio met with a mobster in the Gambino crime family of New York at My Cousin Vinny’s, a restaurant outside of Boston. He told the New Yorker that he was hell bent on finding out “who the rats were.”
Ferland said DiNunzio strongly suggested that it was Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, former boss of the New England mob.
“He wants to find this cooperator to put an end to his cooperation,” Ferland said. “Violence is the way this organization carries out its business.”
DiNunzio’s lawyer, Robert Sheketoff, of Boston, argued for a lesser sentence. He cited his client’s poor health — diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure and back pain. He also said DiNunzio’s former wife said that he has been a “loving and devoted father” to their two children, now young adults.
Sheketoff’s plea didn’t seem to faze Smith, the sentencing judge.
In addition to the maximum prison sentence, he ordered DiNunzio to complete three years of supervised probation once he’s released. Smith had doubts that the mob boss would change his ways.
“I’m not going to give you a lecture about rehabilitation,” he said.