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Post by dans on Dec 18, 2019 23:55:58 GMT
Where would a member of a moderately successful San Francisco mob live? Time is early 60s. Own a home in the suburbs, commute to work? Live in an apartment building owned by a shady business that is beholden to the mob? An apartment? At home in his parents' basement? Sleep on a bench in a park? Would multiple members of the mob live in the same neighborhood?
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Post by redsycorax on Dec 19, 2019 6:10:34 GMT
If we're talking about the cosa nostra, or the Sicilian mob, its members would live adjacently in an inner city neighbourhood, within an intergenerational kinship network. They would probably be Catholics and attend church on Sundays. They might have an ornately decorated home due to their ill-gotten wealth, dependent on their place within the organisation's hierarchy. A senior figure would be the 'godfather' or patriarch of the group. They would have made their money getting around alcohol prohibition in the thirties and run prostitution rackets, gay bars and drug distribution networks (mostly heroin or cocaine) at this time. There might also be some Irish gangsters as well, and the same factors would apply. In addition, there might be some vestigial loyalty to the Irish Republican Army across the Atlantic, in Eire and Northern Ireland.
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Post by dans on Dec 19, 2019 22:23:31 GMT
Thanks, Red, these guys are probably not cosa nostra or members of an Irish mob, they are one of the generic mob gangs that always showed up in 40s and 50s comics when some guy (or woman) would stomp into a room with three or four gangsters, identified in a text panel, and shoots the boss and says "I'm the boss now" and the other guys are so impressed they say 'sure, Boss, tell us what to do next?'.
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Post by redsycorax on Dec 20, 2019 20:52:04 GMT
Well, yes, but the same context would apply even if these were generic gangsters TM. They could still have the background factors that I've mentioned which affect their view of the world, social outlook, personal relationships and therefore motivation and characterisation. Given the detail you've just provided, I suspect the underlying motivation would probably be two rival crimeland gang families contending for black market ascendancy over a particular territory. If it's the sixties or seventies, that would probably be over heroin or cocaine distribution networks.
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