Like many bar-room fights this one started over a girl. Blood was spilled because someone dared to insult an Italian’s sister.  To fight for the honor of your family is a noble, time honored tradition. Today most people courageously rely on lawyers to do their dueling for them. The fight lasted only a few minutes, but the story is in the history books forever. It was the night an infamous nickname was carved with a knife.

The year is 1917. The place — a nightclub on Coney Island in New York. An Italian named Frank Gallucio is out on the town with his all grown up baby sister. To everyone else baby sister is a very attractive young lady and one of the men working at the bar is smitten by her looks. The young man is constantly walking past their table, staring at her with seemingly X-ray vision eyes and eventually he does the unthinkable, and makes a rude and crude Read more