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Price (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  Trying to estimate the date -- The newspaper Price is reading is the Brooklyn Standard Union Sunday April ? One of the headlines is "fifth man killed in red hook feud." See a comment under the Lost City blog post "A Trip Through Red Hook's Bloody Past" posted on April 15, 2007: "There had been a bootlegging feud going on in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in the early 1920's. On election night in 1922 there had been a pistol fight between Gregorio Lagana and Joseph Busardo at Tosca Gardens Cafe on Columbia Street. When police arrived they took Busardo who had been shot three times in the back to LI College Hospital as a prisoner. Lagana died. Busardo was later acquitted of the crime as there were no witnesses. On February 8, 1923 Jack Buccafusco and Charles Cucchairo had been visitng Vincent Busardo at his home on Homecrest Avenue. Two men in masks entered the home and killed Cucchairo. Police arrested Busardo & Buccafusco because they did not believe their story. They were released. On April 6, 1923 Vincent Busardo was shot in the back while walking on DeGraw & Columbia streets. While half conscious on his hospital bed he identified Umberto Anastasio & Guiseppe Florino as his shooters when police brought them to his hospital room. Vincent Busardo died that evening. On April 29th 1923 two men were gunned down on Sackett Street. One man Biagi Giordano died and the other man U Anastasio was in critical condition. This shooting was said to be a vendetta for the killing of Busardo a few weeks earlier. Umberto who became Albert Anastasia and Joseph Florino were linked to many crimes including the disappearance of Pete Panta, a dock worker." So I think this set of photos of Price (whoever he is) was taken in April 1923, consistent with the time-frame of many nearby photos in the Bain stream.

• swanq said:

  Given that Bain clearly had an arrangement with Victor, I looked for 1923 newspaper pages with "victor records" and "price." The Bismarck [N.D.] Tribune. December 04, 1923, page 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042243/1923-12-04/ed-... had an ad which included many pictures of performers featured on Victor records. It includes a compatible photo of a Georgie Price. So here he is: greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2020/10/forgotten-... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Price www.imdb.com/name/nm0696906/bio And a 1929 short is at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQTUOwi0mQ