Family and friends cousin Frankie and Aldo that’s Captain Tony on the bottom for right Sal took all these portraits 1947 Just before Captain Tony fled to Key West to hide out
In my 42 years of doing portraits I’ve published over 1200 beautiful women and did hundreds of portfolios on top of all that There is a couple thousand candids of people who I have met here’s a nice little mix as far back as 1979
Captain Tony’s saloon 1969 The original Hemingway bar the oldest bar in Key West
Sal Was Captain Tony’s older brother he has been performing all over the country since he was 17 mind reading, hypnotizing people while playing the piano he had a great act his name was a neon in two different clubs simultaneously Chicago an New Jersey you could check out all the original ads on this […]
Real authentic jersey Gangsters Sal photographed every one of them As far back as the mid 30s and one of the last ones taking them with me above Captain Tony’s saloon 1976 I was 20 years old back then
Back in the 70s and early 80s I did a lot a sunset sunrise postcards in posters for Key West Florida published under Kennedy Studios also worked for the Key West citizen newspaper back then last month Lisa and I went on vacation to the West Coast of Florida I took this photo with my iPhone I guess I still got it
You will see this little guy in many of Sals photographs Besides being in the Wizard of Oz in 1939 Sal got him a job 10 years later in 1949 at the bazaar traveling carnival world of mirth after working with Sal for three years Sal negotiated a contract for him With the Phillip Morris tobacco company as their poster boy 1953
In 1943 Sal “second studio in Manhattan he did something a little different he bought a bunch of old clothes so he could dress people up like they look at the turn-of-the-century that’s my grandmother and grandfather on the left Captain Tony’s first wife and my dad aggravated sitting on the floor and my aunt Tonia On the right with her a little doll
After Sal was sent to the psychic Center and the age of 14 the Catholic Church thought he might be special They found a body buried in a box in the back of Saint Patrick’s Church in New Jersey they asked Sal to take a look at it and maybe so I would think of where it came from true story
Captain Tony’s saloon 1968 my first year there guy sitting down Key West Kevin one of Sals lovers He stayed above the bar with Sal for a couple weeks
One of the burlesque girls from the world of mirth the bazaar traveling carnival check out that category on this website Sal did her portfolio also text to her up with Captain Tony we think she’s mother to one of his sons
