The Campisi's are done. They were big in vailsburg Newark.
Yeah...My uncle used to have a diner/luncheonette on South Orange Ave years ago and they would go in there from time to time...
He said they were very respectful(for what it's worth) but batshit crazy.
So that's why he had the book. We're all originally from Vailsburg. My dad grew up there. We moved out in 1971 just before I would have had to go to school there. Lived on Poe Avenue. My grandfather had a Barber Shop on South Orange Ave, right near where Pauls Tavern was. My dad owned a beauty salon on S.O. Ave in the village for years. I remember Grunnings was a great place to eat. The Chickens Nest had great potato pancakes.
My aunt used to own a restaurant on South Orange Avenue about a block or two over from Sacred Heart.
Italian restaurant/cafe next door.
One thing I always remember....there used to be two older men with their chairs smack in the middle of the sidewalk in front of the cafe...drinking coffee and EVEN guys who were known tough guys and maybe killers used to cross the street or walk along the gutter rather than walk in front of that place while those men were sitting. We're talking early 90s.
The Vailsburg section is being slowly gentrified, the areas closest to South Orange that its.
