If you look at this sign you will see Sals name was put there in neon if you ever saw the movie Goodfellas all those mob guys hung out at a club like this. This is the-exact club 10 years before Goodfellas, this wasn’t the 60s it was the 50s Sal did his piano playing […]
In 1989 I landed the job of jobs I became the staff photographer of mentertainment magazine there was actually three issues one from New York and Jersey and then a quarterly that went to every strip club in America the ones for New Jersey and New York came out once a month a lot of […]
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 […]