The American Dream – Part 1
The date was march 17th 1945 Marco Castelli was on a ship towards Ellis island he was 16 years old when his parents Maria and Anthony decided to leave Sicily looking for the american dream. As Marco’s family and 2,000 other immigrants rushed off the cramped ship Marco was being pushed and shoved all over the place while he waited his turn to get into america. After 8 hours all 3 of them were accepted into the country and they got on the ferry over to the mainland, after taking a taxi to the Bronx the family used there last 20 dollars to get a small 2 room apartment. Marcos father worked on the docks making 50 cents an hour working 8 hours 6 days a week. The money barely paid the bills and somehow Marco’s parents still put him through school.
A few weeks after Marco started school he met Antonio Pizzolo, Antonio told Marco he was cleaning up at a bar and doing some deliveries for the owner for 2 dollars an hour. The next day Marco went to the bar with his new friend and they gave him a job. When Marco told his parents he got a job at the bar his father told him he was to stay away from that bar that there were bad people there. Marco didn’t quit working there he just hid the money that he made from the job.
He found out 2 years later when he was 18 that the place was run by the Lucchese crime family he was instantly hooked to the lifestyle that those guys lived wearing suits not breaking their backs for someone else. Marco and Antonio started doing jobs for one of the family’s capos Joseph DiNapoli they’d pick up the weekly payments from store owners and they ran one of the family’s gambling parlors. It was a quiet September day when Marco, Antonio and Joseph sat down in a little diner, Joseph explained that one of the family’s associates was talking to the feds he handed them both a small revolver and told the two men to clean up the mess.
Written by Don-Vindog