Great uncle Sal photographed a lot on Canal Street in Chinatown he has some secret hangouts there he told me he would go there to smoke some opium every once in a while I cropped this image out of one of his large format negatives I like it I myself also spent seven years photographing […]
Some pretty cool stuff 1949 Sal was pretty much running the company, The world of mirth a bizarre traveling carnival Sal was the organ player, mind reader, and hypnotist, he also made all the masks for them and did all the photos he had some amazing perks with that job he got to sleep with […]
My dad and Woody Strobe from Spartacus In 1979 they filmed my grandfathers movie Woody Stroube was my grandfather’s first mate in the movie with Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Michael Gasso from The Godfather William Saint Jacobs, Monte Rock, Karen K And a whole bunch of other stars I was even in it as a […]
I always speak about that famous nightclub that Sal performed at doing his mind reading and piano playing and then on his break he would take pictures of all the famous people that hang out there This is Mark Spitz he won five gold medals in the Olympics for swimming he used to hang out […]
My great uncle Sal had four sons just kidding these are the actual midgets that were in the Wizard of Oz in 1939 ten years later in 1949 Sal got them in at the World of Mirth the bazaar traveling Carnival that Sal worked for Sal also did all their portfolios some pretty funny stuff […]
I spent so many years on the streets of New York City, I would always know when A photo shoot was going down, the umbrellas set up a big dressing room truck and some security people, this was a photo shoot for Victoria secrets ready to go down I waited patiently but not right on […]
In 1969 great uncle Sal had his mask photography studio above his brothers bar Captain Tony’s saloon in Key West he made a bunch of pirate masks over 50 years ago and put six of them in the bar of course he put special ingredients in the papier-mâché mix since the bar was a morgue […]
My 60th birthday four years ago Four shots of Petrone half a line lotta ice the leaf colored bud in my hand a very rare growth of weed it’s been totally dried and there is purpleish resin buds in the middle I was handing is all over to my friend I don’t do stuff like […]
Nothing like the Jersey shore beautiful long beaches, great food on the boardwalk, rides and at times these spectacular waves I spent alot of my childhood every summer on the Jersey shore since my mom had 12 brothers and sisters there you know those loud funny Italians that’s us, I ended up leaving Key West […]
There’s a bunch of stories between my grandfather and Jimmy Buffett they both really respected each other jimmy even wrote a song about him, The last Mango in Paris Wayback in the day my grandfather would let Jimmy jump on stage sing a couple of his songs, my grandfather knew a lot about good entertainment […]