Colosimo was pretty comfortable so I guess he figured he didn’t really need the money and he probably figured money wouldn’t tempt torrio to take him out
2126 S Wabash Ave, Chicago: it's now a gated parking lot right by a White Castle. But the building on the other side of where his restaurant was is still there, used to be a garage and auto parts store, now a gangster themed dinner theatre.
There's a gangster theme restaurant that asks you for the password through a little slot about eye-level and they give you a gun and tell you to get ready to shoot the cops because they might raid the place anytime during your meal. They have showgirls dancing, a jazz band, a Frank Sinatra-like crooner going table-to-table, and a gambling area with actors gambling and once in a while fighting.
Shoe shine used to be done on the streets, the shoeshiner often carrying a box for the men to put their feet upon as he grabbed his rag and buff and began to move the rag back and forth to bring up a shine. Little things like that we don't have anymore but they are quaint things in history
When I went to school in Chicago, classmates called me "Diamond Jim". I never realized who they were comparing me to - and I still don't understand why. Ah, the mysteries of history!
Big Jim: *murders, extorts, intimidates, pimps, etc.* Church: "Whatever..." Big Jim: *divorces his wife in favor of a woman who doesn't look like a half-melted ball of Silly Putty* Church: "BANNED!"
It may be crime, corruption, violence, extortion, name it...etc... but it IS American history and it is part of our heritage - like it or not. Thanks for the historic vid!
You can be quite refined, sophisticated and still take care of business. Something all gangsters should keep in mind. Underestimation is probably the biggest reason so many upstarts never went far.
That was typical of the Church at the time. He wasn’t denied a Catholic burial for having been a crime lord, selling women left and right and extorting money, but for having been divorced and remarried. He finally went too far!
@Larry Sunde there are actually huge differences. Satanism is completey misunderstood and falsely protayed as horrible , scary Satan worshipers when in reality most of them have more morally conscious followers.
"We stay with the whores,Johnny". What a quote! Does anybody think that this story reminds you of the Godfather when Sollozzo tried to have Vito wacked because he wouldn't go into the drug trade?
Bloodletters & Badmen Thank you. I hadn't heard of Lt Charles Becker. What a piece of work!! There's nothing worse than corrupt cops and other officials. Justice goes right out the window when they are operating in their capacities.
The funny thing is that Jim was right. Anyone with common sense could have told Torio and Capone that prohibition wasn't going to last forever. If they had stuck with whore houses and restaurants, they would have never spent a single day in jail.
Glad you liked it. The book was good too! If you like to read here is the link. www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=wiseguy%20nicholas%20&linkCode=as2&tag=bloobadm-20&linkId=UET55LS236W3TQO2
wow, this really explains a lot on why a king Pin gangster like Big Jim was all alone at the restaurant during Season 1, episode 1 of Boardwalk Empire.
Its explained perfectly in the show as well,its just explained in the subtext of the show and not directly said why it happened. The fact that Big Jim didnt want to into bootlegging was his downfall, he was killed for refusing to go into the booze racket by his own men since his own men knew how much money was at stake and that jim had made his fortune already and didnt really need the head ache , but from the point of view from his underlings, Big Jim was literally denying everyone of his men a lot of money going forward. This would be something that occurs very often in the under world where a big boss who made his money doesnt want ot enter a new racket due to the danger of the law, but they end up getting killed by their own men due to the fact that those men want/need money and that is the only reason why any gangster followes a boss, its becuase they offer money, protection and a bright future, but when a boss doesnt recognize what his men want/need then the boss gets removed, just like Vito Genovesse , Angelo Bruno, paul castellano, etc, etc ,etc, its very rare now a days for a boss to live is entire life as a boss/not be killed by underling. That is a big difference between the modern gangster and the old school one who built the national crime syndicate
He was all alone because he wanted to be most likely, hardly any of the kingpins kept an army of guards breathing down their neck when they believed their position was secure which he obviously did at the time. Not to mention Torrio and Capone would’ve known his whereabouts and when best to have him taken out with them both being intimately involved in his Chicago operation with Torrio actually being his 2nd in command. If you’re someone’s right hand man and you don’t know off the top of your head when best to have them killed, then you’d be missing the mark somewhat. Especially if you were able to secure the loyalty of the rest of the gang which I’m sure they were careful to do beforehand, then it doesn’t matter when or where if everyone present is in on the plan anyway.
Big Jim is buried in the same cemetery as my father. His mausoleum is a short distance from where my father’s ashes are enshrined at Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side.
@@vanesamontacuto8916 When I last saw it, the structure was damaged with yellow “Do Not Cross” Police tape around it. Looked abandoned. I remember the caretaker said the family declined to put money into it.
human sex trafficking was the biggest business of the underworld ads placed in Midwest states for young girls for acting, modeling and waitress jobs sent a flow of white girls(some black girls were used but racist customers said "no") to Chicago and then after being "trained to service men" they were sent to east coast escorted by "gangsters" who got a piece of the action.
"So long Vampire, So long Lefty." This phrase was never deciphered? Well it's not difficult to imagine who he thought the vampire was and looking at photos of Colosimo he holds his cane in his left hand...
Do not stand at my gave and weep I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight On the ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn’s rain.When you awaken in the morning hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.
hunter thompson yeah like giving an obese man the name of Billy "the chins" Calderone... my grandmother's husband was called "Lefty" by his gang bc he was left handed, and another member was called "Lards " only bc this guy was obese. so it goes with the territory.
I wonder if Big Jim is the inspiration for Bob Dylan's 'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts'. "Big Jim was no-one's fool he owned the town's only diamond mine'. In the song, Big Jim is a rich and powerful man, has an older wife who he neglects for the young dancer at the Cabaret, and gets killed in the dressing room.. Could just be coincidence, interesting though.
Had to send for them N.y gangsters huh?? Boy I said it before N.y bred the most vicious gangsters in the early 20th century. Damn that place must of been hell on earth in the 1800's.
Following the 1837 economic crisis, the New York slums were for a time thought to be the most dangerous place on earth. There was one rookery, the Old Brewery at Paradise Square, that averaged one murder nearly every night.
good vid i cant believe this was made. my mothers median name is Colosimo. my great grandfather and big jim are first cousins. its cool to see and hear about the crazy history
The waiter sounds credible for sure, especially if he got a good look at the guy while he was in there. In the mafia there is no coincidence so if Yale is known to have been there at that time it was probably him. The next most likely and logical suspect would be Capone even without the confession however. Either way Capone knew about/helped plan the hit so that makes him just as guilty and a confession just as valid even if he didn't pull the trigger.
@BloodLetters&Badmen I just want to say I really enjoy your documentaries. So very informational on all the mobsters we’re all so fascinated with! Question... who do you think killed Big Jim? Was it Big Al or Frankie?
The first real gangsta of Chicago, these were business men. They all knew what the Hazzard was when in it. Nowadays here in Chicago we still have over 30 shot every weekend not to mention during the week. For over 50 years
I have always thought that Big Jim's opposition about expanding into bootlegging during Prohibition was possibly similar to the way the later 50s and 60s bosses thought about getting into narcotics... Although there was a vast amount of revenue to be generated, there would result a great deal of rival competition and subsequent bloodshed, thus bringing even more unfavorable attention by the media and increased scrutiny from law enforcement, all of which of course, transpired...Colosimo, like the later bosses, felt that all this groping for fast, easy money was more trouble than it was worth...He liked things the way they were, and he was killed for that...
This Big Jim Colosimo is from neapolitan family , naples italy, he is nothin to do with sicilian. please mention that he hes from neapolitan family. THANK YOU for the very nice compilation
Bloodletters & Badmen it would be appreciated if you could put remarks for neapolitan gangs whenever need to .. the joe gallo brothers , and vito genovese (genovese family ) were also from neapolitan family background and they can join the new your mafia without problem . in other worlds genovese family was feared by the rest. so the rest cant do anything even they know most genovese men were not sicilian since everybody in costra nostra knew how powerful joe adonis (dotto was ) . dotto was from neapolitan family as well
+Jejaka Idaman I am very careful about using the word "Mafia." I do not throw it around like so many others. Personally, I believe the true mafia (Sicilians or mustache Pete's) were overthrown with the death of Salvatore Maranzano and the purge which took place immediately after. Luciano didn't care about mafia. At least not the Mafia Joe Bonanno romanticized in his book. His national crime syndicate or national combination was purely organized crime. It must be noted that those of Italian and/or Sicilian heritage came to dominate it.
luciano was feared over vito genovese , he knew it very well if his good friend mr joe adonis mr dotto was a friend of genovese , he have no choice, he have to follow the flow or he will given the offer that he cant refuse as the rest, only after vito was in prison the gambino can show their color in some part of the water front
Tommy, no one knows for sure. The majority opinion is that Frankie Yale was the triggerman. Capone comes in second and then a few lessor knows divide the rest of the theories. But who knows? I tend to believe it was Yale.
Bloodletters & Badmen Yeah. Correcto. When you do the Frankie Bal one I could send you some pics of the Shorecrest Hotel some of the old Milwaukee LCN hangouts. August Palmisano's bar. Louis Fazios(Frank's solider he firebombed) autoshop
11:19 wow, an Archbishop who actually believed in the Faith and made sure that the Rules were always followed??? Unfortunately these days you'd have a better chance catching a unicorn . THANK YOU YOUR EXCELLENCY!!! REQUIESCAT IN PACE. AMEN.
A flashy ghetto fabulous Bling, pimp, nothing is new. Big Diamond Jim, Biggy Smalls, Fat Joe, Jay Z, what's the difference? This guy would have been a rapper now. As for his second wife Dale being, "a sweet faced beauty?" She's actually very homely looking. Not quite Beyonce or a fly rap video chicks. 😂
hello...how about one on Paul Ricca?...one of the meanest around..even though his public persona was much differed. .thanks for videos. ..knew some of his descendants long time ago briefly and.my father met the old man .
Conor, great question! Not from anything I read. Torrio was Big Jim's nephew from his first wife whom he divorced. I am guessing Jim didn't have a lot of family. I never heard of anyone seeking revenge against Torrio or Capone.
the people responsible for his death, would of been the people who would of been looking for revenge, Jim was killed by his own men thus no one who followed jim had any reason for revenge as with jim gone, all his men basically entered the booze racket with other crews, making the money they lost due ot jim, Jim ebing dead actually helped everyone under him out as now they didnt have a NY boss saying no" to the boozes racket, now they all recevied money from the very racket jim didnt want to eneter
The Black Hand was hardly unique to Italians. Hell, the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand was also part of the Black Hand. It’s kind of an umbrella term for a type of extortion racket.
My ugreatncle Gsry Guidi was part of the Blach hand in Pittsburgh where my family started here after leaning NYC. My head respect to skl the man's, man in this country.
when you're part of a Crew nobody tells you that they're gonna whack you, there's no curses like in the movies your enemies come with smiles and they always come when you're at your weakest
Everybody love Big Jim! But...Business is a business. Requiesce in Pace... Don Costello who played Don Victor Stacci in THE GODFATHER.. is spitting image of Don Johnny Torrio.
If I were Jim, I would've told Torrio yes, but you and Al take that over there, give me my cut, but leave me out of it.
That is really what he should have done.
Colosimo was pretty comfortable so I guess he figured he didn’t really need the money and he probably figured money wouldn’t tempt torrio to take him out
That part tm.
hindsight is 2020
A simple solution to a simple problem.
They made him look funny in boardwalk empire
FACTS lol!!
" If you like to eat you eat,.. *but if you no like to eat 😜😜*
Most immigrants are funny to us Americans, even 2nd generation
Super Mario
they also made lucky look like a douche, and an overall bad show in general
My dad lived in little Cicero and used to say hi to Al Capone on his way to school.
2126 S Wabash Ave, Chicago: it's now a gated parking lot right by a White Castle. But the building on the other side of where his restaurant was is still there, used to be a garage and auto parts store, now a gangster themed dinner theatre.
Qiller Daemon south loop
Didn’t know that. I’ll have to visit the place when I go home for the summer.
There's a gangster theme restaurant that asks you for the password through a little slot about eye-level and they give you a gun and tell you to get ready to shoot the cops because they might raid the place anytime during your meal. They have showgirls dancing, a jazz band, a Frank Sinatra-like crooner going table-to-table, and a gambling area with actors gambling and once in a while fighting.
Big Al worked at the Four Deuces at 2222 South Wabash! The Former Lexington Hotel HQ was around the corner at Cermak(22nd St) & Michigan Ave!
If Jim were alive today he would own BIG JIM'S BBQ and Grill just South on 255 across from the Dollar General.
Shoe shine used to be done on the streets, the shoeshiner often carrying a box for the men to put their feet upon as he grabbed his rag and buff and began to move the rag back and forth to bring up a shine. Little things like that we don't have anymore but they are quaint things in history
When I went to school in Chicago, classmates called me "Diamond Jim". I never realized who they were comparing me to - and I still don't understand why. Ah, the mysteries of history!
Big Jim: *murders, extorts, intimidates, pimps, etc.*
Church: "Whatever..."
Big Jim: *divorces his wife in favor of a woman who doesn't look like a half-melted ball of Silly Putty*
Church: "BANNED!"
typical
Lol 😂 right
My first thought exactly
The have to have some standards. Low ones, yes. But at least they have some
You nailed that one pretty good!
even during the ancient mafia era, the biggest mafia boss was defeated as soon as he became a simp lol
Who knew Big Jim Colosimo had a shinebox! "Now go home and get ya fu%kin shinebox!".
Ya got there before me lol
kman 4443 Roflmao!!
Take your comment down. I won't ask twice.
thetruth6872
Go get your shine box
Hey Jim what's right is right No no you insulted him a little bit ..ok guys drinks on us...
It may be crime, corruption, violence, extortion, name it...etc... but it IS American history and it is part of our heritage - like it or not. Thanks for the historic vid!
Thank you for watching.
@Here's Johnny Saying that doesn't make you smart.
As well as native american genocide and slavery?
The government is the biggest mob on the planet
@@Bloodlettersandbadmen why don’t you upload anything anymore? I’m from Detroit and would love to see a video on Detroit Family
I didn't know Torrio was that ruthless. I thought he was more of a gentleman.
Big Jim was making his highly unsuitable stance problematic. Anybody that gets too far out of line gets whacked.
You can be quite refined, sophisticated and still take care of business. Something all gangsters should keep in mind. Underestimation is probably the biggest reason so many upstarts never went far.
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That was typical of the Church at the time. He wasn’t denied a Catholic burial for having been a crime lord, selling women left and right and extorting money, but for having been divorced and remarried. He finally went too far!
Clarence Hamm
Satanism would have rolled well.
Fuget about it
@Larry Sunde there are actually huge differences. Satanism is completey misunderstood and falsely protayed as horrible , scary Satan worshipers when in reality most of them have more morally conscious followers.
At the time lol
blue heeler you sound like a child
This is rare, a gangster forced into the life with apparent aspirations of just being left alone to grow old with his wife.
"We stay with the whores,Johnny". What a quote! Does anybody think that this story reminds you of the Godfather when Sollozzo tried to have Vito wacked because he wouldn't go into the drug trade?
***** Very good! How about the cop McCluskey? I always though he was like Lt. Charles Becker...
Bloodletters & Badmen
Thank you. I hadn't heard of Lt Charles Becker. What a piece of work!! There's nothing worse than corrupt cops and other officials. Justice goes right out the window when they are operating in their capacities.
Well the theory now is Becker was setup for the murder of Rosenthal. I have read any of the new research. I am get to it one day.
Vito Killed The Black Hand
The funny thing is that Jim was right. Anyone with common sense could have told Torio and Capone that prohibition wasn't going to last forever. If they had stuck with whore houses and restaurants, they would have never spent a single day in jail.
Hey man, thanks for the advice on the Donnie Brasco film. I watched it the other night. One of the best films I have ever seen!
Glad you liked it. The book was good too! If you like to read here is the link.
www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=wiseguy%20nicholas%20&linkCode=as2&tag=bloobadm-20&linkId=UET55LS236W3TQO2
They should've made a movie about him played by the late great James Gandolfini
wow, this really explains a lot on why a king Pin gangster like Big Jim was all alone at the restaurant during Season 1, episode 1 of Boardwalk Empire.
Big Jim was short sighted. But he ran the roost for a while. Thanks for watching.
Its explained perfectly in the show as well,its just explained in the subtext of the show and not directly said why it happened. The fact that Big Jim didnt want to into bootlegging was his downfall, he was killed for refusing to go into the booze racket by his own men since his own men knew how much money was at stake and that jim had made his fortune already and didnt really need the head ache , but from the point of view from his underlings, Big Jim was literally denying everyone of his men a lot of money going forward. This would be something that occurs very often in the under world where a big boss who made his money doesnt want ot enter a new racket due to the danger of the law, but they end up getting killed by their own men due to the fact that those men want/need money and that is the only reason why any gangster followes a boss, its becuase they offer money, protection and a bright future, but when a boss doesnt recognize what his men want/need then the boss gets removed,
just like Vito Genovesse , Angelo Bruno, paul castellano, etc, etc ,etc, its very rare now a days for a boss to live is entire life as a boss/not be killed by underling.
That is a big difference between the modern gangster and the old school one who built the national crime syndicate
He was all alone because he wanted to be most likely, hardly any of the kingpins kept an army of guards breathing down their neck when they believed their position was secure which he obviously did at the time. Not to mention Torrio and Capone would’ve known his whereabouts and when best to have him taken out with them both being intimately involved in his Chicago operation with Torrio actually being his 2nd in command. If you’re someone’s right hand man and you don’t know off the top of your head when best to have them killed, then you’d be missing the mark somewhat. Especially if you were able to secure the loyalty of the rest of the gang which I’m sure they were careful to do beforehand, then it doesn’t matter when or where if everyone present is in on the plan anyway.
nick SOULE Yes, the adage is- Earn , and let earn, for everyone has to eat
The gangsters don't choose the shinebox, the shinebox chooses them.
Big Jim is buried in the same cemetery as my father. His mausoleum is a short distance from where my father’s ashes are enshrined at Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side.
I heard that his mausoleum seemed abandoned. Is this true?
@@vanesamontacuto8916 When I last saw it, the structure was damaged with yellow “Do Not Cross” Police tape around it. Looked abandoned. I remember the caretaker said the family declined to put money into it.
@@CrimsonRaven51 WHAT?
It is said that big jims ghost is haunting the restaurant in Chicago as well as the graveyard
Really
That’s a big ass ghost
I bet, every now and then, someone will hear his voice in the wind, bellowing out angry Italian words and opera music
Resurrection Cemetery? There's so many ghost stories about that place I quit listening.
@@scottfeuerhammer3595 Oakwood Cemetery, is where he is entomed.
When this guy is basically your great great uncle, and you share the last same name. But no one says colosimo correctly
co los i mo ?
So it isn't Colosiemo? Lol
@@tonithenightowl1836 col os i mo
@@laine132 thank you :o)
Its co lo si mo... difference between spanish n italian is spanish has the accent thing ...
Its like this in spanish
COLOSI'MO
it's ca -LAH - bree - a
human sex trafficking was the biggest business of the underworld ads placed in Midwest states for young girls for acting, modeling and waitress jobs sent a flow of white girls(some black girls were used but racist customers said "no") to Chicago and then after being "trained to service men" they were sent to east coast escorted by "gangsters" who got a piece of the action.
I kept hearing that background music and expecting "Hiiiii and welcome, you're listening to the X22 report, my name is Dave..."
"So long Vampire, So long Lefty." This phrase was never deciphered? Well it's not difficult to imagine who he thought the vampire was and looking at photos of Colosimo he holds his cane in his left hand...
It’s because the hand he would use to stamp his letters was his left
Do not stand at my gave and weep
I am not there,
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight
On the ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there.
I did not die.
brian kelly wtf..boy stfu .. nigga think he some kind of great poet lol shit ain’t got nothing to do with mafia shit lol weirdo
Beautiful. Who wrote it?
@@MassWaveTV stfu, that piece was written well.
@@MassWaveTV are you insane , speaking with such disrepect about such abeautiful poem . Time to get your shinebox.
@brian kelly I’m sure you write this because Colossimo was related to you? Such a beautiful piece to remember someone
So sad this channel doesn't upload anymore 😢. Amazing narration and stories
"Hinky Dink" and "bathouse" what a great pair of nick names! LOL!!!
hunter thompson yeah like giving an obese man the name of Billy "the chins" Calderone... my grandmother's husband was called "Lefty" by his gang bc he was left handed, and another member was called "Lards " only bc this guy was obese. so it goes with the territory.
I was thinking the same thing
Bathhouse not Bathouse
Terrifying ain't they?
David Smith you’re under arrest by grammar police! lol
I wonder if Big Jim is the inspiration for Bob Dylan's 'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts'. "Big Jim was no-one's fool he owned the town's only diamond mine'. In the song, Big Jim is a rich and powerful man, has an older wife who he neglects for the young dancer at the Cabaret, and gets killed in the dressing room.. Could just be coincidence, interesting though.
I thought the same thing. "Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a pen knife in the back!" Of course Colosimo was shot, but still.
Had to send for them N.y gangsters huh?? Boy I said it before N.y bred the most vicious gangsters in the early 20th century. Damn that place must of been hell on earth in the 1800's.
New York? . get a rope...they did not know Texas back then.
Following the 1837 economic crisis, the New York slums were for a time thought to be the most dangerous place on earth. There was one rookery, the Old Brewery at Paradise Square, that averaged one murder nearly every night.
In the 1800's...it was said NY was WAY Wilder, then the Wild Wild west.
@@rickramirez3235 now thats thats funny..
They all were originally from Italy. Plus you ain't one of them
His club is now a parking lot.
good vid i cant believe this was made. my mothers median name is Colosimo. my great grandfather and big jim are first cousins. its cool to see and hear about the crazy history
+bob Capone II Thanks for watching and the kind words.
Deep, so you just gonna let your grandpa get murked like that?
Her median name? What about her mean name? Or her mode name?
@@acobigz2479 lmao
Big Jim is my great great grandfather
was 5:46 necessary? LMAOOO
That's the strangest pronunciation of Giacomo I've ever heard.
You live by the sword you die by the sword this the way it is
I died at 5:45 LMFAO
The waiter sounds credible for sure, especially if he got a good look at the guy while he was in there. In the mafia there is no coincidence so if Yale is known to have been there at that time it was probably him.
The next most likely and logical suspect would be Capone even without the confession however. Either way Capone knew about/helped plan the hit so that makes him just as guilty and a confession just as valid even if he didn't pull the trigger.
They used to call him spit shine Jimmy.
Don’t shine shoes no more billy
@@angryanakin right before he died, I made him shine my shoes tho. Ole spit shine Jimmy, "one for the road" I said.
RIP Uncle Jim
Really??????
The last name is pronounced wrong.
It seems like he's got a problem with pronouncing names correctly
Big Jim doesn’t shine shoes anymore but he never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Shot putter, maybe
You’ve been gone for awhile, you should come back. You make great videos
THANKS FOR SHORT BIO ON"BIG JIM COLOSIMO"...
martadoso9 You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
He shined shoes as a kid...why are there no shinebox jokes here? You people are a disgrace...
Nice work, Subbed, Thanks...
He's one the old..... Mustache Pete's
This One of Yours goes BOOM! Well Done.
+efilperpenfuhrer Thanks my friend.
I Love all of Your work...
@BloodLetters&Badmen I just want to say I really enjoy your documentaries. So very informational on all the mobsters we’re all so fascinated with! Question... who do you think killed Big Jim? Was it Big Al or Frankie?
Frank
The first real gangsta of Chicago, these were business men. They all knew what the Hazzard was when in it. Nowadays here in Chicago we still have over 30 shot every weekend not to mention during the week. For over 50 years
One of business men u speak of Johnny Torrio had his own blood relative murdered for cash
I have always thought that Big Jim's opposition about expanding into bootlegging during Prohibition was possibly similar to the way the later 50s and 60s bosses thought about getting into narcotics... Although there was a vast amount of revenue to be generated, there would result a great deal of rival competition and subsequent bloodshed, thus bringing even more unfavorable attention by the media and increased scrutiny from law enforcement, all of which of course, transpired...Colosimo, like the later bosses, felt that all this groping for fast, easy money was more trouble than it was worth...He liked things the way they were, and he was killed for that...
+Crazcompart I agree. But the so called edict against selling drugs is/was a myth. The mob has been into it since the beginning.
“Not seeing a future in sanitation”, That’s a goddamn stereotype, and I would hate for you to perpetuate it!
Lmfao now speaking of stereotypes, have you ever watched the Tarzan movies?
To bloodletters and badmen do you have anything on the western outlaws from volume one of bloodletters and badmen and volume two please?
Andy, I've often thought about doing bio's on some of these figure. But for now, I am keeping my focus on mobsters. However, I will think about it.
Bloodletters & Badmen please stick with organised crime. please
Alfredo, will do.
Bloodletters & Badmen Billy The Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
You don't tug on superman's cape,
You don't spit into the wind,
You don't pull the mask off the 'ol lone ranger, and you dont mess around with Jim.
This Big Jim Colosimo is from neapolitan family , naples italy, he is nothin to do with sicilian. please mention that he hes from neapolitan family. THANK YOU for the very nice compilation
+Jejaka Idaman That is correct,. Capone and Torrio were also no Sicilian and therefore, they were not Mafia.
Bloodletters & Badmen it would be appreciated if you could put remarks for neapolitan gangs whenever need to .. the joe gallo brothers , and vito genovese (genovese family ) were also from neapolitan family background and they can join the new your mafia without problem . in other worlds genovese family was feared by the rest. so the rest cant do anything even they know most genovese men were not sicilian since everybody in costra nostra knew how powerful joe adonis (dotto was ) . dotto was from neapolitan family as well
+Jejaka Idaman I am very careful about using the word "Mafia." I do not throw it around like so many others. Personally, I believe the true mafia (Sicilians or mustache Pete's) were overthrown with the death of Salvatore Maranzano and the purge which took place immediately after. Luciano didn't care about mafia. At least not the Mafia Joe Bonanno romanticized in his book. His national crime syndicate or national combination was purely organized crime. It must be noted that those of Italian and/or Sicilian heritage came to dominate it.
luciano was feared over vito genovese , he knew it very well if his good friend mr joe adonis mr dotto was a friend of genovese , he have no choice, he have to follow the flow or he will given the offer that he cant refuse as the rest, only after vito was in prison the gambino can show their color in some part of the water front
He was from Calabria not Naples.
5:44 made me laugh
I thought Frankie Yale clipped him..I might by wrong tho
Tommy, no one knows for sure. The majority opinion is that Frankie Yale was the triggerman. Capone comes in second and then a few lessor knows divide the rest of the theories. But who knows? I tend to believe it was Yale.
Bloodletters & Badmen Yeah. Correcto. When you do the Frankie Bal one I could send you some pics of the Shorecrest Hotel some of the old Milwaukee LCN hangouts. August Palmisano's bar. Louis Fazios(Frank's solider he firebombed) autoshop
Thanks my friend, I will keep that in mind.
Yale seemed normal size to me. It may have been the angel of the camera.
no matter, it is obvious that torri was the mastermind who planned for sure. i am watching boardwalk empire which is showing all these too
To the bloodletters and badmen website can you please put together a episode on ghost stories
Andy Densmore Sorry, but that is not what I do.
your voice would be great for ghost stories
He looks like Mario and his dad was named Luigi
“Gee a como coll iz mo from Cal a bree a” ahahahaha
God it hurt my ears so bad 😭😭😂😂😂
The photo of Charles MacArthur is actually his longtime writing partner Ben Hecht.
As an Italian I have to comment, his name is pronounced GEE ACK AH MO, similar to Jack ahmo
Cool vids keep em coming
Will do. Thanks Sam.
Of course his father's name was Luigi.
Bruh says Colosimo differently every time
Interesting and worthwhile video.
nothings changed
I'd love it if 100 years from now people were watching videos about me
How though 🤔
It's Ca-LA-Bria, not Ca-la-BRIA
11:19 wow, an Archbishop who actually believed in the Faith and made sure that the Rules were always followed??? Unfortunately these days you'd have a better chance catching a unicorn . THANK YOU YOUR EXCELLENCY!!! REQUIESCAT IN PACE. AMEN.
Awesome doc.
John Torrio killed his own uncle 8:25
Not a blood related uncle but an uncle through marriage.
It was his uncle through Marriage. Once he divorced Torrio's fat Aunt for the young Jezebel, all bets were off
amazing video series....
Bloodletters & Badmen
He must have played Skyrim with the black hand shit 😂
Thank you I just subscribed
A flashy ghetto fabulous Bling, pimp, nothing is new. Big Diamond Jim, Biggy Smalls, Fat Joe, Jay Z, what's the difference? This guy would have been a rapper now. As for his second wife Dale being, "a sweet faced beauty?" She's actually very homely looking. Not quite Beyonce or a fly rap video chicks. 😂
Sorry it’s “Call-uh-sea-mo” Colosimo
That is the anglicized version.
It is, indeed, "Coe-low-see-moe."
I love these mob history stories
Apricot brandy and ice cream. That sounds delicious.
Why does he pronounce 'colosimo' like 5 different ways throughout the vid lol
LOL Noticed that myself.
And mis pronounces calabRIA
hello...how about one on Paul Ricca?...one of the meanest around..even though his public persona was much differed. .thanks for videos. ..knew some of his descendants long time ago briefly and.my father met the old man .
btw. ..my grandfather was a bodyguard of Diamond for a short time...found that out several years ago
+Michael C The Waiter is on my list. I am looking forward to working on his bio. Thanks for watching.
+Bloodletters & Badmen thanks for your videos. .great work!
great to watch
B&B is my google for gangsters.
Did no one want revenge for his death? no repercussions?
Conor, great question! Not from anything I read. Torrio was Big Jim's nephew from his first wife whom he divorced. I am guessing Jim didn't have a lot of family. I never heard of anyone seeking revenge against Torrio or Capone.
torrio had him killed as far as we know. Torrio would probably have been the person seeking revenge in a normal hit situation.
the people responsible for his death, would of been the people who would of been looking for revenge, Jim was killed by his own men thus no one who followed jim had any reason for revenge as with jim gone, all his men basically entered the booze racket with other crews, making the money they lost due ot jim, Jim ebing dead actually helped everyone under him out as now they didnt have a NY boss saying no" to the boozes racket, now they all recevied money from the very racket jim didnt want to eneter
conor lumsden lumsden is homies killed him I think ?
@@ramonramirez8497 stop talking like you're black.
Jim should have let Johnny and al go there own way, if nothing else he would have live longer....
New York solved the problem...your welcome Chicago
Thank you but not no more!!
The Black Hand was hardly unique to Italians. Hell, the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand was also part of the Black Hand. It’s kind of an umbrella term for a type of extortion racket.
Capone was the one who killed Big Jim
I think priests should refuse “public sinners“ more often.
I am Diamond Jim's great great nephiew.
Sorry
Not to be confused with my cousin's husband, Big Jim Collasanno.
"Colossal Fossil Colisimo"
So that's where Bethesda got the idea of the Black Hand letters.
My ugreatncle Gsry Guidi was part of the Blach hand in Pittsburgh where my family started here after leaning NYC. My head respect to skl the man's, man in this country.
Heck of a team
when you're part of a Crew nobody tells you that they're gonna whack you, there's no curses like in the movies your enemies come with smiles and they always come when you're at your weakest
Ain't this line from goodfellas
@@wasterdnb yep! 👍
You pronounced his name correctly only half the time. You mispronounced many names in your clips. Might wanna work on that.
Your still watching
Kup Kopala Of course I am. It was constructive criticism.
Cool. It's hard for me to interperate these internet sutultys sorry if i made you feel funny
Kup Kopala Nah, no worries. Hard to tell inflection and tone from a typed comment. I like these vids.
Please get the pronunciations right
Awesome!
Thanks Barack! BTW, interesting name choice.
Haha! Thank you
Everybody love Big Jim!
But...Business is a business.
Requiesce in Pace...
Don Costello who played Don Victor Stacci
in THE GODFATHER.. is spitting image of Don Johnny Torrio.