This is my great uncle Sal‘s mask photography studio in New York that opened up in 1937 and as you could see my AI guy brought that studio to life, this is an original negative from sometime in the mid 30s, the guy in this image is Jimmy Lansing, a friend of my great uncle Sal, I hung out with at great uncle Sal‘s funeral back in 95 interesting fellow, Anyway some of these masks on the back wall made it over to his little brother’s bar, Captain Tony’s Saloon you know that haunted Hemingway bar w

Portrait by my great uncle Sal above Captain Tony saloon in his mask, photography studio, and by the way, those paintings in the background monkey Tom did those for my grandfather back in the late 60s I like to know where they’re at these days, There’s so much I could add to this story about her, something bad happened between her and my grandfather Captain Tony like I said I heard so many stories about her, throwing pool balls downstairs at people beating somebody with a pool stick she protecte