Just in general, reading this thread got my 3 cylinders running.
Yes understood ....
Atardi rarely posts on this board, but he's one of the finest researchers you'll ever meet when it comes to turn of the 20th century through 1950's "gangsterism," and of the Italian American experience in general.
Glad to hear about someone like him (Atardi)
Also funny what he was saying about PA 300 mi may as well be 3000.
I was upstate over the fathers day week with lots of family and friends.
A good friend of mine from St.Marys PA had a couple of his guys up from Pitt. that are partners in a couple food places there.
We were all sitting around a fire and shooting the shit,and I bring up some NY things and they elaborated .
I bring up some Philly things just in general and they had no clue about anything going on at all.
