Wicked cool that traymore hotel looked a lot more extrazagint then the shit there today and the color picture of ac and the beach looks like a nice place to go to the beach was that photshoped back then. Cool pics of all them old guys young scarfo. Is that the Manny gambino Sammy the bull trashes in his book called him a fag and whatnot. The refs are doing everything for lebron the NBA's so bullshit went to shit. Refs control the game. Klove such a douche letting lebron coach the team he wants out asap after this year. Well its a blow out now.

Lol how'd that post go from the traymore & Atlantic City to the Cav's/Celtics game?

Interesting....never heard of some of these people before...Garramone, Soccolich, Grasso. Interesting that they speculate that Long John was Bruno's boss.

Great find! Guiseppe 'Joe' Gambino's the only active guy left out of them all, he must only be 30 in that picture.

Comparing philly to the new england family cause therthere the same size the second after they killed Bruno the whole family turned into wolves and showed there true colors. Reading about narduccis wedding these guys were all buddies the second he's dead there all killing each other like they didn't know each other for 20+years. Was the grasso guy inducted in philly?

These are ready good reads like the old joey gallo articles keeps me coming back. Thanks posters.

Who was the saccolach dude.

Well they blew up the chickman in philly last nite blew up his house too

Great find Downtown much appreciated. I like how they mention Scarfo- "Hidden Investor" lol. hey also mention Big Paul is a capo instead of boss which shows the FBI were in the dark about most NY Families at that time

The good old days , workmanship that was put in to those big hotels,they are some of the best in the country(were), I think there was like some 100 , 5 foot tall gargoyles hand scribed in that hotel.
The Feds were so relaxed with AC that the place has always been a home for OC since the beginning .
Just look at the mayors that ran the city since the very beginning.Some very interesting fellas....

FBI? its a newspaper

Yes i know that but even the FBI by their own admission was in the dark until the 80's

Wow. Great article, great photos!

1969 kums hotdogs buys caesars$$$$$$$$. so some luchese was talkibg to the bonannos in Arizona. they wanted in on a.c. wonder who and what. the nyc bosses probably stop it. wonder what galante had in a.c. if anything and if he even wanted it, or was happy with his herion.

cool article downtown, solid find....I see the pic of Tony Pro in the article, but I didnt see anything about him involving this story? did i just miss it?

That was a cool pic of Scarfo, never seen that one before.

Thank You all for your kind words. I have alot to post just have to find time to do it...stay tuned.

This really shows you how cunning the WS was in getting rid of a strong Gambino alley in a very lucrative area that had boatloads of rackets from Union , booking and sharkimg that could be parlayed into legit restaurants bars and hotel service industries

Our retarded yet hypocritic politician should realize that a big part of CN activities today are borderline legit ( llower margin garbage and construction activities today ) and no less legit than the much back dealing and scratch your back you scratch mine voting ways that goes down in wash and almost every major city that affects way more people than today's localized and controlled . Stupid politicians is what killed AC.

When are these idiot politicians going to realize things have changed , they are legit , and the very own govt has stolen their blue collar rackets like the lottery , pay day loans by huge acounting corporations ( which are collataritzed by the way . Yeah sure they are still in garbage and construction but it because they are needed and can do things the govt can't which comes no where near the level of corruption of acceptance of how things are down . From 1990 until until 2024, only 8 years won't include a Clinton or bush ( that's 26 years of political corruption by people that know how and who to play to get what they want - war , pro attorney , complete inability to balance a budget and enrich corp , dereguting of the finance industry that will end in utter disaster , and we we ourselves a democracy, haha , try a capitalist society under the guise of democray to sell the public that has no time or energy to fight anymore .

If AC was smart they would let some of the old guys in that know how to develop , zone property/real estate and handle entertainment , attract crowds and it sure it wont happen overnight but give it 10-15 years and AC would gradually get back. It's not that hard . Bring in a race track , build up and entertaining Boardwalk , not the one today where you can get mugged , bring in some real entertainers , hip bars on the BW, sports gambling , some fancy NYC Italian restaurants and build some dorms around there so there is some excitement during the winter and by lord legalize prostitution so the. cops can focus on crack dealers and murders and people have another reason to go down and be smart about it and improve access and track health care for them , IMO one of the easiest ways to get AC popping again is to bring back the people that knew how to get people down there , It's not a coincidence that when you booted them out it got worse and even when they were there there was very little wise guy violence and you know why , cuz it hurt business and that's what it was all about .

No having said that ( my bad , I'm sorry I know ) but the WS pulled off one of the best power moves in the history CN IMO , lol , them guys lol what calculating business lol

The most interesting thing to me, is the news that Joe Bonanno wanted in. When they say the Bonanno's in Arizona, thats who they mean, Joe, his son Bill and the guys that stayed loyal to them who moved from NY to Arizona. Goes to show that maybe, just maybe, there were two factions of Bonanno's long after that war ended. and that Joe himself, still held some sway.

I remember watching the 1984 Crime Inc documentary series about the mafia; at the time it wasn't clear yet who was behind the hit and in one of the episodes where the Bruno murder was examined, the theory was that "younger, ambitious drug dealers took him out". Yeah, right, Caponigro and Tieri were so "young": Caponigro 2 years younger and Tieri even older than Bruno.

Sorry for the off-topic, it's just the whole Bruno discussion reminded me of this.

This was an awesome find. Thanks a lot. Crazy so many of them men in those pictures were murdered.

In one of the mob docs I saw, it said Caponigro was actually hiding in the bushes and was the one that actually pulled the trigger? I thought that was BS, I was under the impression it was Alfred Salerno that actually pulled the trigger, plus I find it hard to believe an older Consigliere who I think was a big dude hiding in the bushes in S philly, seems more like something he would farm out, but caponigro was def a hitter in his day so its possible, I know he wanted Sinatra wacked for tellin him to shut up during a concert lol

Just read through this again. Lol awesome article especially knowing everything now 30 something years later. I wasn't even alive for Bruno era and too young to remember Scarfo. But love reading about what they thought they knew and what they did actually know.

I remember watching a doc on pbs early 90tys about how the westside pulled a power play on Bruno. I was young 10 12. Once bambino died the old guys in the genovese pulled the wool over big Paul's eyes and I think he didn't care. That boss benny squint was so low key he doesn't even come up in the whole Atlantic city articles. Everyone but him.

Actually funzi t either. Think catena was retired during the ac boom. You want to read about funzi see the scarpa shit he was telling on him the whole 70tys. Guess funzi was always in Brooklyn and close with gambino and Allie persico.

did anyone see shit in the article about Provenzano? Anyone know of how he was involved in AC? I believe he got pinched and locked up in the late 70s/early 80s right for the Castellito murder?

Thanks for posting , great article