My cousins took me to the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas. It's a museum dedicated to the history of organized crime in the US. All manner of exhibits, from clothing to the electric chair, populate the beautifully renovated and historic Las Vegas Post Office building. They even have a section of the brick wall against which seven mobsters in Chicago were executed on St. Valentine's Day, 1929, blood stains and all.
The photo is of Gaetano Badalamenti, a member of the Sicilian mafia who used pizza stores as a front for distributing heroin in the United States.
We had steady rain for most of the day yesterday. It ended around midnight. I know because I was awake. Jet lag works in mysterious ways.
I never did get to the Mob Museum. So strange (and that it includes a blood-stained wall).
ReplyDeleteMob Museum! There are so many unique places. I will try to remember that one should I ever return to Las Vegas! Congratulations - I can rest assured that at least one vote is going in the right direction!!! I just sent a reminder: to be calm -we still have time - to my french classmates! Things this close can be really scary (at least for me!)
ReplyDeleteForgot above to mention your cute "party cousins' " photo! Those were the 'good ol' days' - weren't they!
ReplyDeletedear me! When I was last in Lost Vegas I went to the Liberace museum rather. I don't think it still exists.
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