Word: pushcart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible exception of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. The Cosa Nostra now operates through 25 to 30 "families," totaling about 5,000 members. Five families and about one-third of the total troops are based in New York City, where Valachi grew up as the son of a hard-drinking pushcart peddler in East Harlem...
Carr's father, an immigrant from Rumania, used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month...
...plenty to tell. The son of a Greek immigrant, he decided early to go for easy money rather than the legitimate proceeds of the small restaurant chain his father had built up from a pushcart. He began by swiping a briar pipe and a pair of sunglasses from a parked car, eventually worked his way up to an armed stickup. Caught and locked up, he proceeded to pry a board out of a fence around Mattapan State Hospital, where he was under observation, and began an ancillary career: jail breaking. When the police got him back, they kept...
...city licenses all the pushcart men. Many years ago, almost anyone could get a license. Friday morning before the market opened, the vendors would line up at the base of Faneuil Hall (just across Dock Square). At a signal they would race across the Square with their pushcarts, trying to get to the best sites on Blackstone Street. Words and sometimes assorted vegetables, were exchanged in the competition. After a few carts, tomatoes and apples went spinning across the pavement, the City decided to license only a fixed number of "regulars." They occupy assigned sites on Blackstone Street until they...
...Slowly at first, more rapidly now, the wholesale companies are leaving the area--fruit and produce to Chelsea and Everett, meat to the "new market" in South Boston. For tradition's sake, however, some wholesalers will remain in the block-long granite warehouse known as the Quincy Market. The pushcart market is not moving. It will still be native cukes, Italian sausage, and provolone cheese. Hey, buddy, you want some nice bananas? Just ten cents a pound...