Posted by UBERHIPPY on September 12, 2004 at 10:06:48:

In Reply to: Uberhippy is Captain Cueless. posted by Joseph Vavrecan on September 12, 2004 at 00:15:56:

Oh, please Sir, don't let anybody know that a regular visitor to my father's bar was the mob associate who assaulted Helene Stapinski’s grandfather, Beansie. The author identified the organized crime figure as Joe Wyckoff; we-all knew him by the name of Joe Weisskopf. For you nostalgia fans out there, the Downtown Jersey City restaurant where the fight took place now is the location of Santana’s Hard Grove. Maybe like Domenic can get Historic Preservation to put up a plaque outside the eatery or something.

Oh, please Sir, don't let anybody know that my uncle was the one who lent Martin “Motts” Casella $5,000 to buy the bar at First and Jackson in Hoboken. Motts was at the time my uncle’s top numbers runner. Marty soon thereafter aligned himself with Brooklyn interests. My uncle remained friendly with Martin Casella, which years later proved useful. In the 70s, a Greenville resident stole at gunpoint $30,000 from my uncle. Presumably, the individual in question pondered the action and saw the odds in his favor. What was my uncle going to do, go to the police and have to explain the source of the money? It would also seem unlikely that a Caucasian in his mid-fifties was going to go to an apartment house in Greenville and start banging on doors in search of an armed assailant. What the would-be Urban Jesse James didn’t consider was my uncle phoning Martin Casella. Before the day was out, my uncle regained possession of $29,998.75. (Seems the guy had stopped to buy a cup of coffee and a pack of cigarettes.)

Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that a regular customer in my father’s tavern was a friend of Harold “Kayo” Konigsberg. The bar patron related how he was the one who actually removed the body from Congressman Gallagher’s house. The Congressman had requested assistance from Konigsberg. Kayo though nervy in most ways was frightened by thought of carrying a body out of the home of a prominent Bayonne resident with all the nice little old ladies up and down the block watching from behind the blinds. So, Kayo called for help. The guy, who we shall call Hal, after a little negotiating (Very one-sided, given the circumstances, the Congressman and Konigsberg simply promised Hal whatever he wanted.) just wrapped the body up in a rug and hauled it out the door to his car.

Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that my father and his two brothers were mentioned in the Kefauver crime hearings. In that era, it was like getting nominated for an Academy Award!

Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that Tony Provenzano once asked my father to work for him.

Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that back in the 60s my cousin George tried to crack the safe at City Hall in Jersey City. He also attempted to hold up a bank on Central Avenue. Both capers were such fiascos that slap stick comedy was the result.

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: Oh, please Sir, don't let anybody know that a regular visitor to my father's bar was the mob associate who assaulted  Helene Stapinski’s grandfather, Beansie.  The author identified the organized crime figure as Joe Wyckoff; we-all knew him by the name of Joe Weisskopf.  For you nostalgia fans out there, the Downtown Jersey City restaurant where the fight took place now is the location of Santana’s Hard Grove.  Maybe like Domenic can get Historic Preservation to put up a plaque outside the eatery or something.

: Oh, please Sir, don't let anybody know that my uncle was the one who lent Martin “Motts” Casella $5,000 to buy the bar at First and Jackson in Hoboken.  Motts was at the time my uncle’s top numbers runner.  Marty soon thereafter aligned himself with Brooklyn interests.  My uncle remained friendly with Martin Casella, which years later proved useful.  In the 70s, a Greenville resident stole at gunpoint $30,000 from my uncle.  Presumably, the individual in question pondered the action and saw the odds in his favor.  What was my uncle going to do, go to the police and have to explain the source of the money?  It would also seem unlikely that a Caucasian in his mid-fifties was going to go to an apartment house in Greenville and start banging on doors in search of an armed assailant.  What the would-be Urban Jesse James didn’t consider was my uncle phoning Martin Casella.  Before the day was out, my uncle regained possession of $29,998.75.  (Seems the guy had stopped to buy a cup of coffee and a pack of cigarettes.)

: Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that a regular customer in my father’s tavern was a friend of Harold “Kayo” Konigsberg.  The bar patron related how he was the one who actually removed the body from Congressman Gallagher’s house.  The Congressman had requested assistance from Konigsberg.   Kayo though nervy in most ways was frightened by thought of carrying a body out of the home of a prominent Bayonne resident with all the nice little old ladies up and down the block watching from behind the blinds.  So, Kayo called for help.  The guy, who we shall call Hal, after a little negotiating (Very one-sided, given the circumstances, the Congressman and Konigsberg simply promised Hal whatever he wanted.) just wrapped the body up in a rug and hauled it out the door to his car.

: Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that my father and his two brothers were mentioned in the Kefauver crime hearings.  In that era, it was like getting nominated for an Academy Award!

: Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that Tony Provenzano once asked my father to work for him.

: Oh please Sir, don’t let anybody know that back in the 60s my cousin George tried to crack the safe at City Hall in Jersey City.  He also attempted to hold up a bank on Central Avenue.   Both capers were such fiascos that slap stick comedy was the result. 


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