I have two websites pertaining to Coney Island if you go to my main website portraitsofnewyork.com scroll down to the bottom and hit Coney Island days I also have a website just dedicated to Coney Island Topneeyork.com
Coney Island
Before Captain Tony fled Elizabeth New Jersey this was the crew he hung around with two of them actually had a contract out on him that’s A published story in people magazine in the New York Times
Just had to post this image 2019 we are celebrating my grandfathers 103rd birthday party at Captain Tony’s saloon his bar for many years it’s a tradition of course he passed away my dad and I walk in the bar for the party and there was this topless girl the girl asked my dad are you Captain
So who was really Salvatore Terracina worlds youngest mind reader and hypnotist while he did that act he played piano for many of the speakeasies in Chicago during prohibition while all that was going on he was making These crazy masks and I put the cherry on the cake he was a public photographer all over the world even work for the CIA during World War II and the Korean War as an undercover photographer
So who really was Salvatore Terracina the great Saltar
Sal was born 1911 in Elizabeth New Jersey when he was five and six years old he would make mud little sculptures of people having sex it was actually sculptures of his father an the live in made when Sal turned 14 years old he made a devil mask and costume and dressed up as […]
I probably have done a couple hundred model portfolios but Well I really like to photograph was more of an exotic looking face portraits
The masks you were looking at are over 80 years old five of them are hanging on the walls in my house
Captain Tony’s birthday party
Every year they throw this big birthday party on August 10 at my grandfather’s bar, Captain Tony’s saloon in Key West, he would’ve been 104 this year he lived to the ripe old age of 93 gambling partying smoking two packs of unfiltered lucky strikes a day he quit 10 years before he passed away […]
I took a chance
You will never see ninth Avenue like this anywhere else, I was on the fifth floor of Port Authority bus station in New York, I climbed over a barrier where it said no trespassing then I climbed up on a ledge and reached my hand out with my camera and took the shot August 1997
Sal started making masks in the late 20s
I have so many favorite photos of my uncle Sals works, this is one of them right here, in 1968 when I was 12 years old my dad took me into Manhattan to see the Empire State Building and Times Square and then to great uncle Sals studio on 36 Street and seventh Avenue a […]