Many talented Scots found an exit route from the slums of Glasgow through football, boxing or show business. Archie Morrison discovered another way--through his skills as a croupier. Starting in the Stakis casinos in Scotland, he was soon headhunted for the Nassau Grand in the Bahamas, and eventually was lured to the gambling mecca of Las Vegas. ...
The Northern Division was the name given to the police force which operated within Glasgow City boundaries prior to the creation of the Strathclyde Police Force. Its recruits were drawn largely from ex-servicement who were demobbed after World War II and, as a result, they became known as The Big Men. Their name was well-deserved as they set about ...
One of Glasgow's best-known restaurateurs, Joe Pieri ran a cafe in the Cowcaddens district which attracted the lowlife by day, was cleared for theatre-goers in the early evening and then serviced prostitutes and villains late at night. Here, he recounts his tales of those who passed through.
This book reveals a shocking and sensational story: the mafia and the huge syndicates it controls have infiltrated the government in Italy, the US, the highest levels of the Catholic Church, and in modern times, are even implicated in the murder of an American president and the pope. At lower levels of criminality the mafia is omnipresent - from ...
Joe Pieri arrived in Glasgow from Italy in 1919, when he was one year old. His father, with other Italians, had come to work in the city's newly popular fish and chip shops. Joe soon learned that he was different from his school-mates - he was a 'Tally', an unwelcome immigrant in the eyes of some. Gradually accepted as a Scot, Joe left school ...
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