What is the deal with all those pre-1950 photos with 5-10 mobsters standing shoulder to shoulder with no hint of a smile?.........Are those all,police line-up photos? Or, are they just a bunch of friends getting together and trying to look as mean as possible?.......Same thing, every time!......Everyone has a hat on!...Everyone has a trench coat on....Everyone looks like a mope!
I assume they are line-up photos but, wouldn't they demand the hats to be taken off for proper ID?
I'm not sure.
In the ones I posted, most of those guys were burglars,fences, etc.
I suspect that any time they rounded up the usual suspects, they would take one of these shots.
That way, anytime there was a burglary, they could show these around and see if anyone was seen in the vicinity.
