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Originally Posted by knickslions2
Looks like someone was watching Goodfellows last night
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Nope but I have seen it many times and also have studied the Mafia for some time. Fascinating beginning in Italy and their history.
I grew up in a small town in upstate NY close to where the mafia used to hold there summer meetings in Apalachin, NY. My cousin lived on the main road to get to the "hide out" campus in the thick woods and it was a campus of multiple cabins. I'd visit him now and then and every so often playing in the front yard we'd see a constant long row of black cadillacs driving about a 1/2 mile past his house and then turning up into the woods. We never knew what was going on until we got much older but thinking back, it was pretty cool.
My wife and I rented our first upstairs apartment over a house owned by and Italian family (nice family) and it was clear he (the father) and his friends were involved in the underworld . . . if not big time, at least in a fairly obvious way. I would often knock on the side door of the basement off the alleyway and tell the somewhat rotund guy with the crooked nose who'd come to the door, and who did not live there, I had the money to pay the rent. He'd leave for couple of minutes and come back and said Mr. (nameless) said it's OK to give me the rent money. What was I gonna do say no? And for the 9 months we lived there we never had one issue with the rent or with the family.