If the government didn't prohibit alcohol Organized Crime might not have risen the way it did. The government always has a big root in all of our problems(I have been a public employee for most of my 56 years).
I wish I would have known about it as my dad lived there and we visited every year in the 80s. Michael Franzese also tells us how 'The Life' ruins everything human.
I didn't realize this existed - we didn't discover it on our last trip to Vegas. If / when I get back, I'll check it out. In the mean time an upvote for this Vegas gem. https://www.atomicmuseum.vegas/
Lately Ive been thinking about that old Simpsons episode where the townspeople run off the corrupt mayor and put a group of intellectuals in their place to run it and all hell breaks loose. I bet theres a lot of Chicagoans that might be happy see a guy like mayor Daley back in charge. The Mob may be sick and evil, but as the Russians that overthrew the Czar learned, it can always be worse. Gotta pick your poison! Go Bears to Indiana!
I visited the Mob Museum when in town for the SEMA show and found it very informative and not at all kitschy, well worth a visit.
And I too grew up in Chicago, but the difference with the Daley regime is that while there was a large connected group wetting their beaks, the basic functions of government worked. Old Man Daley loved the city and kept it fastidiously clean, but as is so often the case with progeny, his son not only paled in executive skills comparison, but launched the city’s fiscal spiral by underselling the parking meter deal by several billion dollars and immediately torching the one billion he did receive.
Regarding the Mob Museum, it was interesting to see the Dallas mob connections now that Big D is my new hometown.
If the government didn't prohibit alcohol Organized Crime might not have risen the way it did. The government always has a big root in all of our problems(I have been a public employee for most of my 56 years).
Agree. They talk about that.
I wish I would have known about it as my dad lived there and we visited every year in the 80s. Michael Franzese also tells us how 'The Life' ruins everything human.
I went to Fordham and lived in Bay Ridge Brooklyn for five plus years- who needs a museum. 😂
ha, I grew up in Chicago!
https://open.spotify.com/show/5rxC3ePKqiMeO0zvCBqmkz
Calibrese podcast from the same folks who did the CBT/CME/FBI series. It's on Apple also
I hooked Frank up with a guy here who will have him speak at a lunch. Will help him sell some books.
My wife and I went to this museum a couple of years ago and also found it very educational and well worth the time.
I didn't realize this existed - we didn't discover it on our last trip to Vegas. If / when I get back, I'll check it out. In the mean time an upvote for this Vegas gem. https://www.atomicmuseum.vegas/
Lately Ive been thinking about that old Simpsons episode where the townspeople run off the corrupt mayor and put a group of intellectuals in their place to run it and all hell breaks loose. I bet theres a lot of Chicagoans that might be happy see a guy like mayor Daley back in charge. The Mob may be sick and evil, but as the Russians that overthrew the Czar learned, it can always be worse. Gotta pick your poison! Go Bears to Indiana!
We now have are own version of Daley in Washington DC.
PS: Except Daley never took any of the financial graft.
Take your hands out of your ears, the dark glasses off, and uncover your mouth. John Kass showed plenty of times how they skimmed
I visited the Mob Museum when in town for the SEMA show and found it very informative and not at all kitschy, well worth a visit.
And I too grew up in Chicago, but the difference with the Daley regime is that while there was a large connected group wetting their beaks, the basic functions of government worked. Old Man Daley loved the city and kept it fastidiously clean, but as is so often the case with progeny, his son not only paled in executive skills comparison, but launched the city’s fiscal spiral by underselling the parking meter deal by several billion dollars and immediately torching the one billion he did receive.
Regarding the Mob Museum, it was interesting to see the Dallas mob connections now that Big D is my new hometown.