Is There A Mafia In Baltimore? Ralph Salerno On Baltimore's Organized Crime (1969)

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Is There A Mafia In Baltimore? Ralph Salerno On Baltimore's organized crime (1969) #baltimore #mob

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@Guillermo_Carratero Жыл бұрын

The Gambinos had a crew there run by the Corbi brothers.

@jwilliams9334 Жыл бұрын

Yep. Joe Corbi, of the Baltimore based Joe Corbi's Pizza, is the son/nephew. He is completely legitimate as far as what's known.

@frankcalabrese7074 8 ай бұрын

My grandfather was William Perrera, Big Angelo's youngest brother. I was his first grandchild of "Uncle Willie", and was groomed for the Life. I saw gambling facilities that no longer exists. My Pop was friends with Joe Bonano, Little Nicky Scarfo, et al. My Pop was the last of the Baltimore Mob that originally was under the GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY. The Perrera family stopped paying "pezzo" in '67 by the order of my Great Uncle, Angelo Perrera. By : Frankie Calabrese, III.

@ALtheelectrician 2 ай бұрын

Yeah that's what I heard. The Gambino Crime family set up shop in Baltimore back in the day and ran gambling books in the city by hooking up with the Jews. Also I don't know which family he was working with but Melvin Williams got his dope from the mafia as well. I assume that was a back door deal as the mafia shied away from selling drugs back in those times but would do it behind their bosses back.

@anthonyraymond2211 Ай бұрын

@@frankcalabrese7074 My Father was A BOOKIE for many years ...My Uncle Vince Raymond was also a 70s bookie ,,,..Yeah He had a legit business but the numbers made him alot of money back in the day .....I always Have known Tony Gambino from Little Italy ...He always told me he was Related ..way back when we were young I always beleived him ....YES Baltimore was affiliated with La Cosa Nostra

@tf7622 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this channel. Being baltimore born and raised plus still residing in Baltimore, this channel gives me unlimited access to history and information regarding this city past. Thank you for doing a great job.

@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words buddy.

@ms.donaldson2533 Жыл бұрын

My parents moved into a mafia community in 1970 - it was FABULOUS!!!!

@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410 Жыл бұрын

What community was that?

@PeaceNYC2011 Жыл бұрын

This sounds quite naive! Bottom line the Mafia thrived on crime, illegal gambling, exploiting people, murder.

@henryevans2935 8 ай бұрын

That community was Dundalk at a bar on Dundalk avenue where the Mafia wanna be used to hang out the guy Galiano his dad was a Baltimore city supervisor for Dept of water works and he was a associate of the Mafia I know they wanted to fight me and call me little watermelon but a older black guy Bobby told them that I was from Westport and I was cool Eventually 2 of the Italians got hooked on heroin they were selling it to the guys at general motors up the street and the drugs took everyone down long story short life

@ALtheelectrician 2 ай бұрын

You can forgive but still require payment for what was forgiven.

@ambuhpugz3653 10 ай бұрын

THATS MY UNCLE AYYYYYEEE smartest man I ever knew

@user-gn1ef8qd2i Жыл бұрын

Lmao reporter sounds like Rod Sterling! Love this channel.

@WisGuy4 Жыл бұрын

I lived in Baltimore during the mid 80s through the mid 90s and in multiple years in that period it was the murder capital of the United States. And almost all of my friends either got mugged or had their cars broken into or their apartments burglarized. The one place in downtown Baltimore other than the center of the Inner Harbor that felt truly safe was Little Italy. The hoodlums from the east and west side were afraid of the mafia and kept clear of that neighborhood. I think the restaurant owners were aware of the mafia reputation and took advantage of it with overpriced meals with very small portions, trusting that few people would demand to talk to the manager, not knowing what sort of ominous figure would come to one’s table and blurt out “One of youse got a problem?“ It’s been more than two decades since I was last back in Baltimore. Are the police still as miserably corrupt as when I lived there? When there is active solicitation of prostitution going on by the “dancers“ from the nudie bars on The Block, and on the opposite corner of that same city block from the prostitution is the main Baltimore city police station, that could only happen if the police are being bribed to look the other way at the highest levels. Ditto with the several blocks on N. Calvert St. where hookers openly solicited customers and would wave to police cars. I met a former bartender from a bar I had once frequented that suddenly began carding college students. I asked why that occurred and the bartender told me the police had doubled the amount of their bribes to look the other way for underage drinking and the owners felt they could no longer afford to pay the bribes.

@justdoinit2378 Жыл бұрын

Well according to your questions everything you asked is still going on 🤣🤣🤣 hookers still on those streets and the police still corrupt!! Have you not heard about the recent officer’s called the gun trace task force that were indicted for corruption? Have you seen the shows “We Own The City”? (which is about the gun trace task force) Or The Wire? If not, I strongly encourage you to check them out. They’re both on demand on cable tv. Both are very good shows.

@watitduful Жыл бұрын

The murder cap at that time was your neighbor DC

@vashtibey2530 Жыл бұрын

This is the most racist comment ever little Italy was not safe just racist asf in those times 🤦🏽‍♀️

@RSHjr 10 ай бұрын

@@vashtibey2530who cares either way they stayed away and didn’t think about trying them like they do now yLl only tough when u out number someone or have. Guns

@mh2584 8 ай бұрын

Funny how you people don't give a damn bout crime just long as it's not in your neighborhood you people ain't nothing but hypocrites

@russcontact Жыл бұрын

Salerno… huh. Wonder how he knows about this stuff. 😂

@ambuhpugz3653 10 ай бұрын

He actually was considered a race traitor. There were even some protest against him. He was personally picked out of the NYPD Academy to work for the first organized crime task force for the NYPD his experience with the mob was them, threatening his father as a child growing up in Harlem I know this because he’s my uncle well he was he’s dead now.

@RSHjr 10 ай бұрын

My pop always tells me about his friends mom that used to sleep w/ Al Capone wayyyy back and that he would hide out at her house sometimes and when he died she would literally walk around showing off things he left at her house like a badge of honor 😂

@henryevans2935 8 ай бұрын

I used to hang out Dundalk back in the mid 70s and the galianos from Dundalk had some heroin out there but they them selves started using dope and got sloppy and they couldn't make money for New York

@kinghas_nyc Жыл бұрын

Always had Baltimore pegged for more of a kingpin town then mob town. I know Meyer lansky had a dude I think his name was Salisbury that was into the numbers and the Gambino's had a crew down there but I don't think it had the same impact like other area's

@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410 Жыл бұрын

It didn't. Baltimore was quieter than its New York counterparts. More business oriented. Meyer Lansky use to come to Baltimore a lot for business and he would bring his cripple son "Buddy" with him, believe it or not.

@unclewangg Жыл бұрын

Julius “The Lord” Salisbury , he allegedly was a mentor to Little Melvin Williams the Baltimore drug kingpin

@moneymakingsim4314 Жыл бұрын

@@unclewanggyup! They actually supplied almost ALL of the heroin and cocaine that flooded the city in that era and BEYOND… Lil Melvin talks about it all the time.. Funny how ONLY the young Black Men got busted for it.. Meanwhile, the Mob and the Greeks at the ports made millions of dollars for their families and bought or invested in legitimate business…😢…Jim Crow laws completely alienated lower income Blacks at that time..smdh🤦🏽‍♂️ Still seeing effects to this very day!

@reddwing4368 Жыл бұрын

Back when Ralphie boy still looked good

@fawnlliebowitz1772 Жыл бұрын

Belair Market mob hangout in 50's and 60's.

@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410 Жыл бұрын

They sure did

@frankcalabrese7074 8 ай бұрын

Actually, up till the '80s. Kingpins and my grandfather Willie Perrera would shoot the shit with them while I watched as a young man in the late '70s and early '80s. My grandfather gave me his baccarat game in 1991 at the ripe age of 16. By: Frankie Calabrese III.🇮🇹

@fawnlliebowitz1772 8 ай бұрын

Does the name Lazarra ring a bell?@@frankcalabrese7074

@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410 Жыл бұрын

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