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re: How Powerful was Carlos Marcello?
Posted on 11/20/21 at 11:30 pm to Vacherie Saint
Posted on 11/20/21 at 11:30 pm to Vacherie Saint
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It absolutely was. It was literally called that.
So was Cincinnati, San Francisco, Montreal, and even fricking Denver. NOLA homers can call it whatever they want, it doesn't make it true.
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It was the third largest city in the US
.. in 1840, and only because urban parts of Philly were separate cities and not incorporated yet.
The Marcello family didn't rise to power until the mid 1940's. NOLA stopped being a top 10 city by 1890.
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A major financial capital
The mafia wasn't skimming off legitimate corporate finances. They skimmed off gambling, drugs, construction, etc along with extortion and protection rackets.
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sound like a dipshit
Myopic NOLA homers sound like dipshits. NOLA was left behind by human progress. NOLA was not the ONLY city in the Americas that considered itself to be the Paris of the West. Cincinnati was moreso considered that than NOLA, and Montreal surpassed NOLA bigtime by the 1900's.
This post was edited on 11/20/21 at 11:35 pm
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Posted on 11/23/21 at 10:06 am to BeepNode
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They skimmed off gambling, drugs, construction, etc along with extortion and protection rackets.
My father worked for a large out-of-state G.C. with a satellite office in NOLA handling estimating and subcontracting during the seventies.
From the stories he has told me, I am surprised he wasn't whacked.
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