now its like a circus the young kid making pick ups for the bookie think hes a mobster
There's nothing more repulsive than a 25 year old kid on a half sheet who thinks he's Al fucking Capone.
But as far as the "changes" to the life? It will never be the same. Between assimilation and the Feds, the whole thing is a shadow of its former self. It will never be like it was. Don't matter where you live, either. Boston, New York, Chicago, wherever.
I'm not saying it's over becuase there will always be people who want to gamble and borrow money, but the glory days of Italian American LCN are are in the rear view mirror.
