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Adragontattoo
I so wish we had criminals like that now, they had ethics, they wore suits oh wait we do, they are just in charge now.
/seriously loves hearing about 30′s-50′s mobsters.
Nicholas Dollak
Re: Bonnie & Clyde – A number of years ago, when the movie (starring Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway) was going to be shown on TV, the schedule ran the best wire synopsis ever: “1930s bank robbers Bonnie & Clyde live fast, die in slow-motion.”
Illmatic
Here’s my top 5 Gangsters of NYC
http://globalgrind.com/content/853033/Top-5-Dead-Or-Alive/
Adragontattoo
Sad part Illmatic is that ALL of them are clean cut and well dressed excluding madoff who looks like he just rolled out of bed and picked up the nearest shirt on the floor.
emmiline
small plot spoiler about the public enemies film:
decent movie, but they really didn’t stick to the facts at all. a shame, since the real history is so interesting as it is.
Kathy Dillinger Bird
I agree with Emmiline – the movie had a lot of inaccuracies and omissions, including how Baby Face died (before Dillinger??)as well as not getting into how Dillinger only killed one time, and that was an accident, as well as how he had plastic surgery. “I also think the romantic angle was played up to much more than it was in real life. The truth WAS more interesting than the drama the moviemakers tried to inject. But that’s the way it usually is, I guess. My maiden name is Dillinger and the family believes we are connected to John through some great uncles who moved west from PA in the late 19th/early 20th Century. Any info on JD’s ancestry is welcome!
Sammy
That is interesting Kathy. My son in law has a man working for him who is a distant nephew of Melvin Purvis.
Jillian
When I was a child, a friend of my parents, Bea Jennings (her married name) told us that when she was a little girl, Bonnie and Clyde stopped at their farm in Texas and had dinner. She said they were very polite and left after dinner. Just always thought that was an interesting story.
jasamine
In the 20′s and 30′s my Grandmother was very poor matter of fact she lost $38.00 when the banks crashed she said Al Capone would buy bushels of coal for her heat and cooking and she loved him for showing a kindness she could never repay.
aries
There are a lot of stories about the Outlaws of America doing things like stopping for dinner and buying food/utilities. The Dalton and James gangs (distant cousins of mine) were something of American Robin Hoods. The idea that you lose you humanity when becoming a criminal is a more outlandish idea.
Bonnie and Clyde were, by all accounts, but the law enforcement and banks, generally polite and courteous.
Capone would have been a Don in his neighborhood, in Italy a Don is similar to Patron in Mexico and would have been the ‘patriarch’ of the area he lived in, making the people there his responsibility.
It’s interesting to me that these ideas and ideals have died in the last 80 years.
brandi
my grandfather knew pretty boy floyd and was there when he robbed a bank in salisaw ok
brandi
i just looked at the deaths of dillinger pretty boy and bonnie and clyde isnt intresting they all died on the 22 and 23 of the months that they were shot
richard
“And as through your life travel, yes, as through your life you roam, you won’t never see an outlaw drive a family from their home!”
From a song authored by the late Woody Guthrie.
Only the good guys like Lawyers, Bankers and investment bankers throw you out of your home.
A statement from me!
Think about what this all means!
tammy
I think it is a shame that the marker here Bonnie and Clyde was ambushed has not been kept up and has fallen prey to jerks who have put graffiti all over it to the point that it cannot be read clearly.it’sa shme that our history is beening destroyed by ignorant morons
who thinks at we really care if they was ever there.
