The first Photograph I took of my grandfather Captain Tony was in 1969 I was 13 years old we all went on vacation from New Jersey to finally meet the man the myth the legend even back then he owned the original Hemingway bar and a 65 foot smuggling party boat he was also doing some freelance work for the CIA during the Bay of Pigs and after this portrait right here I shot that was in 1989 he became the mayor of Key West the first New Jersey mob guy to pull it off I shot hundreds of portraits of him during the time I worked for him for seven years in the 70s and 80s my grandfather wore a lot of hats one is which most people don’t know about he was a great photographer because if his older brother Sal my great uncle they had a crazy mask photo studio above the bar on and off through the 60s and 70s on this category You will see over 1000 images with some pretty wild stories all images were taken by Sal Captain Tony and myself they all have some pretty wild stories attached to them