"They ain't so different from a bar before they got rid of the booze. Depending where yous are, some places don't even bother hiding its. 'sides, the bosses been running card games for fucking years, now they just added booze to its, too." He remembers being twelve and his father sending him to run drinks at Joe Masseria's game. 'As a favour' he said. Cheap fucker was probably using him as free labour to pay off a gambling debt.

"Back rooms of stores it were, mostly. And more full a people you really don't wants to fucking piss off."