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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Jul 13 13:07:54 2011, in response to Re: ''ginny'', posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Jul 13 11:13:39 2011. "...very offensive way of implying that Italian-Americans are non-whites (something we tend to get very defensive about!!)."My father was a NYCRR emlpoyee, platform boss at 72d st & North river on the west side of Manhattan in the 40's. There were many "shape up" gangs lookin for day work & would assemble there hoping to be called. Pop would tell me often of his boss Tommy Cocoran showing up every now & then so see how things were going. Tommy would look out twoards the eagar would-be workers & often bemoan "Jaysus Christ Willie!! what we'got here...not an uckin white man out there. The crew was mostly Italians. Such was life on the waterfront of NYC in the 40's |
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