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kikibalt wrote:
Louie Loy, his dad, whose name I can never remember, and his brother Larry

kikibalt wrote:
Jake & Vickie LaMotta

Randyman wrote:Roger, thanks for the kind words, I'll pass them along to Ed. Ed and his son Ed Jr. ran the PAL gym in Ontario before it closed a few years ago. He has a passion for boxing. It was nice meeting you at Mando's service. if I had realize it was you that painted those pictures I would have said something. great artwork.
Randy De La O

dagosd2000 wrote:

kikibalt wrote:
Jake & Vickie LaMotta

i wonder if she gave him the black eye? I saw LaMotta on a talk show on TV with Mike Tyson when Tyson was killing everybody. Jake's sitting next to him wearing this cowboy hat.(The Dago from the Bronx with the cowboy hat). Jake interrupts what ever Tyson is talking about and says with a big grin,(I think seriously),"You know Mike,you have a voice like a little girl. You're the Heavyweight Champ and you have a little girl's voice."
LaMotta's looking right at Tyson smiling.
You could hear a pin drop. Tyson is fumbling for something to say while Jake is still looking at his face.
"Yes,my voice has always been like that."
Jake slaps Tyson on the back and says,"But you're one hell of a fighter."

bennie wrote:

kikibalt wrote:
Louie Loy, his dad, whose name I can never remember, and his brother Larry

The Loys look great.

bennie wrote:

bennie wrote:

kikibalt wrote:
Louie Loy, his dad, whose name I can never remember, and his brother Larry

The Loys look great.

I gave Louie Loy Senior some bad press earlier in this thread for 'throwing in' Louie Junior with a streaking Hector Camacho. This picture shows that Louie Senior knew his son could look after himself and, hey, you can't win 'em all!
Great shot, Frankie.

Randyman wrote:Roger, thanks for the kind words, I'll pass them along to Ed. Ed and his son Ed Jr. ran the PAL gym in Ontario before it closed a few years ago. He has a passion for boxing. It was nice meeting you at Mando's service. if I had realize it was you that painted those pictures I would have said something. great artwork.
Randy De La O

dagosd2000 wrote:Like I said I hadn't been to LA. in a while. April it was Commerce. Friday,Wilmington. You can tell the downward economy has hit these places hard. The jobs and companies that have moved over seas have turned these once prospering communities almost into ghost towns. Signs on buildings reading "For Rent" and "For Lease". A lot of store fronts are boarded up. Geez,it was a Friday afternoon when I got up to Wilmington. It seemed like a Sunday. A lot of places closed. A little store here and there. A bar. In front of the Longshoremen Building there must have been 20 guys languishing around. They looked bored.No movement on the streets.Wilmington is right next to Long Beach. You think the trade would be moving in and out and there'd be a lot of activity.I didn't see one of those big cranes that unload the cargo in action. The big arms hanging there side by side. I passed a flop house called The Wilmington Hotel. Outside it was sunny,the sidewalk empty. Weeds growing up through the cracks along the curb. I heard a radio playing music coming out from the front desk. You could barely hear any sound.

Randyman wrote:Roger, thanks for the kind words, I'll pass them along to Ed. Ed and his son Ed Jr. ran the PAL gym in Ontario before it closed a few years ago. He has a passion for boxing. It was nice meeting you at Mando's service. if I had realize it was you that painted those pictures I would have said something. great artwork.
Randy De La O

kikibalt wrote:

dagosd2000 wrote:Like I said I hadn't been to LA. in a while. April it was Commerce. Friday,Wilmington. You can tell the downward economy has hit these places hard. The jobs and companies that have moved over seas have turned these once prospering communities almost into ghost towns. Signs on buildings reading "For Rent" and "For Lease". A lot of store fronts are boarded up. Geez,it was a Friday afternoon when I got up to Wilmington. It seemed like a Sunday. A lot of places closed. A little store here and there. A bar. In front of the Longshoremen Building there must have been 20 guys languishing around. They looked bored.No movement on the streets.Wilmington is right next to Long Beach. You think the trade would be moving in and out and there'd be a lot of activity.I didn't see one of those big cranes that unload the cargo in action. The big arms hanging there side by side. I passed a flop house called The Wilmington Hotel. Outside it was sunny,the sidewalk empty. Weeds growing up through the cracks along the curb. I heard a radio playing music coming out from the front desk. You could barely hear any sound.

A bar? how come I didn't see it, if I had I would have gone in for a drink or two, I would probably still be there tossing one for Mando....

Expug wrote:Guys , I know Mando and Jackie McCoy worked as longshoremen .
How is that trade doing overall there?
From the pictures, it looks like the longshoremens hall is good size.
Is it all union?Is it a large union?
Do these guys work regular?

bennie wrote:Hey expug, do you know anything about Johnny Lira's benefit night?

dagosd2000 wrote:

Expug wrote:Guys , I know Mando and Jackie McCoy worked as longshoremen .
How is that trade doing overall there?
From the pictures, it looks like the longshoremens hall is good size.
Is it all union?Is it a large union?
Do these guys work regular?

Pug
Like I was sayin' earlier just on observation,it looked real slow. I didn't see a big crane working and it was a Friday afternoon. The Union building had a bunch of guys outside(who knows how many inside)waiting to get a call. Wilmington looked like one of those towns that the freeway bypassed. I was looking for the Bates Motel. Pretty gloomy.

raylawpc wrote:Seriously, now, Frank, what does Eva Mendes has to do with "Classic American West Coast Boxing?"

. . . oh, who the heck cares?? Thanks for posting the picture!!!!!

raylawpc wrote:Well, I'm mighty grateful to you for thinking about me. But next time, post those closer to 5 p.m. CST. Generally, I've got a lot of client work to get out the door, and pictures like that are incredibly distracting . . .