Re: All Things Denver XXXVIII: On To Better Days!
Don't know her. Although I had a Gottlieb girl in my 8th grade class. I wonder if Laura was related but older or younger. The real deal in Chicago (for nearly 50 years) was Tony Accardo. His grandson quarterbacked the high school to the state championship game. He went on to Ohio State and was a first round draft choice. Anyway, the rumor was that grandpa smoked his cigars in the stadium watching the kid play. And for some strange reason, the biology teachers working security were reluctant to tell him to put them out. Tony was the Babe Ruth of gangsters. Never spent a minute in jail. Tony was the one who decided Giancanna was the head of the Outfit. If you get to decide who's the king, then you're the king.
I went to grade school with the sons of Sam "Teetz" Battaglia. One a year older, the other a year younger. The older boy turned out to be just exactly what you'd expect, died of a "heart attack" before he was 30. The younger son was an all state running back and played on a national championship Pony Legue team.
Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro (the guy on whom Pesci's character in Casino was based) also lived in OP. A nasty, psychopathic piece of work if ever there was one. That business from the movie of putting a guy's head in a vise was evidently true. He and his brother, in fact, were murdered and dumped into a shallow grave in Indiana. Casino is the story of how the Chicago Outfit (Tony Accardo) drove the New York families out of Vegas. Kansas City had nothing to do with it.
Don't know her. Although I had a Gottlieb girl in my 8th grade class. I wonder if Laura was related but older or younger. The real deal in Chicago (for nearly 50 years) was Tony Accardo. His grandson quarterbacked the high school to the state championship game. He went on to Ohio State and was a first round draft choice. Anyway, the rumor was that grandpa smoked his cigars in the stadium watching the kid play. And for some strange reason, the biology teachers working security were reluctant to tell him to put them out. Tony was the Babe Ruth of gangsters. Never spent a minute in jail. Tony was the one who decided Giancanna was the head of the Outfit. If you get to decide who's the king, then you're the king.
I went to grade school with the sons of Sam "Teetz" Battaglia. One a year older, the other a year younger. The older boy turned out to be just exactly what you'd expect, died of a "heart attack" before he was 30. The younger son was an all state running back and played on a national championship Pony Legue team.
Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro (the guy on whom Pesci's character in Casino was based) also lived in OP. A nasty, psychopathic piece of work if ever there was one. That business from the movie of putting a guy's head in a vise was evidently true. He and his brother, in fact, were murdered and dumped into a shallow grave in Indiana. Casino is the story of how the Chicago Outfit (Tony Accardo) drove the New York families out of Vegas. Kansas City had nothing to do with it.
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