WHEN GAMBLING WAS A CRIME: 4/4: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. by Russell Shorto (Author)

Mar 10, 12:04 AM

WHEN GAMBLING WAS A CRIME:  4/4: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. by Russell Shorto   (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Smalltime-Story-My-Family-Mob/dp/0393245586/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America.

Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting―but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town.

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