Posted on 03/20/2020 12:12:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Joseph Gambino, the easy-going son of Mafia don Carlo Gambino who became a millionaire businessman thanks to his father’s crime family clout — but who steered clear of the rest of the family business — died of natural causes last month at the age of 83.
Gambino and his older brother Thomas were longtime owners and operators of numerous Garment District trucking companies. The family’s chokehold on the trucks that filled the West Side streets where the city’s rag trade once thrived was so total that competitors who tried to park their own rigs risked flat tires — or worse — according to local officials.
Unlike Thomas, Joseph Gambino never became a made man of the Mafia. He dropped out of New York University in the 1950s and began working for Consolidated Carriers Corp. — the trucking company that would have a virtual monopoly on Garment District deliveries until October 1990, when the Gambino brothers were hit with state racketeering charges.
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This was the reason the NYC Dept. of Traffic at the time had regulations posted in the Garment District that said there was NO PARKING for trucks over 33 ft. in length.....the length of the Interstate Dress Carriers Inc. trucks.
RIP
Say “hi” to Hitler.
The oddly configured, 33ft. IDC trucks that used to inundate the Garment District can be seen in the left foreground in the image at this link.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/rppc-interstate-dress-carrier-trucking-lehighton
Nah I got older family that were in this thing of ours.
Even did some low level crap myself in my late teens and early to mid 20s.
We’re not all monsters and we don’t all do violence.
I spent a night in a cell and that was enough for me.
I ran vending machines out of NJ back in the late 80s and early 90s because they left them outside at night when the gas stations were closed and they were easy pickings.
Throw a few in a van, take a 2,000 dollar soda machine and sell it for 1,000.
No cameras back then.
Overnight gas stations back then..the one guy working would fall asleep and you could steal so much gas (before you needed to entire your life story before pumping) while he was out that you could score a few hundred.
Lots of rackets to make a few bucks. Not all were violent.
One time in grade 2, I stole a pencil off some girl.
I’m only now beginning to get over the guilt.
LOL
I did feel guilty sometimes looking back in my 30s.
Those were the things i could type here.
Some #### from one of the other families put a vending machine into a bowling alley that was mine.
Dragged it outside and took a bat to it.
he showed up at my house with a gun.
Had to call my uncle and he had a sit down with the big shot from the other family and we settled out of court.
God life was so exciting once.
Now I sit around and type :)
Lol, you said “not all”!
Yeah because more than a few were sick ####ing animals that would laugh about kicking old men downstairs!!
They were monsters.
One scam was to find an elderly couple that lived alone. Follow one that left the house and do damage to the car when it was parked at a store or whatever. That gave time to rob the house.
If the elderly person at home gave any grief, they would hit them with the gun and maybe even beat the when they were on the ground.
That was NOT ME. It sickened me.
Another scam was to get local kids to get jobs in stores and get a copy of the keys. Then the kids would quit the jobs, give the key to one of the mafiosi and they would rob the place..and give a cut to the kid that got the key.
Mot of the time that was non violent. sometimes there were surprises.
That’s what Scorsese is for.
Good memories for some, entertainment for all.
Tommy DeSimone was a PSYCHOPATH in real life!!
Jimmy the Gent was raped by his father..and others as a kid.
Paul Vario fooled around with Hill’s wife.
DeSimone tried to rape Hill’s wife and that why Paul fingered him for the Batts kill.
I rant with a much less violent crew.
The very violent ones, like the guys in that movie, scared the HELL out of me.
Also Burke wanted Batts dead because he had taken over Batts’ collections and loan sharking business while he was in prison.
It killed him to have to give it back.
Easier to kill Batts
I know a guy who knew a guy, a gangbanger, and on the surface an honorable, 250 pound chap.
One day he killed 3 guys, because “they had it coming.”
Pretty sure all my Hart/Hickey products came through them.
That’s pretty horrifying.
I never hit or hurt a person besides bar fights.
Stealing was really wrong and even after asking forgiveness, I’ll pay a price.
But murder? I don’t know how a person does it.
I did collect for a while but never hurt anyone.
I’d call their job non stop or tell their parents it was in their best interest to pay their kid’s debt.
Never would have done violence though. Just a bluff.
Richie was a sick monster with no redeeming values.
I wish Tony had given him a DIRECT order to back off instead of just asking.
Being a made guy, Richie could do what he wanted to Beansie without fear of repercussion.
It didn’t ring true though.
I knew guys like Richie. I wouldn’t make a stand right there and then against him. I’d sit down with Tony first.
Unless Beansie thought he was a lot tougher than he was.
But Richie was mentally sick.
Mentally sick beats out tough every time
“...Mentally sick beats out tough every time...”
Knew BOTH types growing up in North Philly.
I’m sure you did!!
I could deal with the tough guys when I was younger.
The psychotic..No.
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