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A
Well,
I'm
not
trying
to
portray
anybody
today.
Okay,
I'm
just
going
to
tell
the
story
and-
and
they
asked
me
well,
you
know.
Where
do
you
want
to
start?
Well,
I
want
to
start
with
something
that's
meaningful,
there's
a
couple
of
just
so
many
people
and
stories
in
this
cemetery
and
every
time
that
you
you
walk
through
here
and
you
see
things
started:
lazaro
lopez,
george
orr.
Of
course
this
this
is
nikolaj
cremato.
Who
is
really
responsible
for
most
of
the
croatian
folks
that
came
to
this
country.
A
He
was
the
first
now
a
little
bit
of
selfishness
on
my
part
and
this
guy
nicholas
schemata
about
1890
found
himself
in
biloxi,
okay
and
working
for
lazaro
lopez.
I
don't
know
if
you've
seen
their
grave
site
up
there,
but
it's
a
tremendous
place
and
he
was
a
tremendous
leader
and
a
visionary
and
you
you
can
see
his
his
name
and
his
fingerprint
on
most
everything
around
but
turns
out.
A
Nikolai
went
to
work
for
him
and
he
said
say
man
you
work
like
10
men.
You
have
any
cousins.
He
says
I
sure
do
so.
He
again
now.
Let
me
let
me
explain
this:
his
father
and
my
great-grandmother
were
brothers
and
sisters,
but
also
his
mother
and
my
great-grandfather
were
brothers
and
sisters,
so
they
were
double
first
cousins
to
see
them
see
cool.
Also,
you
know,
grossitches
halletts
patallos
came
all
hit
off
the
same
boat
august,
3rd
1903..
A
Okay,
at
the
time
you
know
it
was
part
of
the
austro-hungarian
empire.
You
could
see
some
of
these
are
my
distant
cousins
too
bobovicia
austria,
but
it
was
part
of
the
austro-hungarian
empire.
Still
from
croatia.
You
know:
we've
got
a
thousand
islands
that
kind
of
line
our
homeland,
the
old
country
as
they
used
to
say,
but
at
the
time,
australia,
hungary,
you
could
see
all
these
birth
certificates
austral
hungary
empire.
A
It
stayed
that
way
up
until
the
end
of
world
war
one
and
then
there
was
some
configuration
to
yugoslavia,
and
that
means
south
slavic
and
that
was
made
up
of
croatia,
serbia,
bosnia
herzegovina,
a
couple
other
ones,
macedonia
and
slovenia,
and
that
stayed
that
way
until
1992.
A
When
you
know
tito
was
a
communist,
that
kind
of
ruled
the
roost
and
kept
things
straight
up
until
you
know
1992's,
that's
when
slovenia
and
croatia
broke
away
and
we're
back
to
croatia
same
island,
just
like
this
place
was,
and
it
didn't
all
it.
Hadn't
been
part
of
mississippi
right.
Mississippi
came
second
320
years
ago,
it's
held
a
lot
of
history
right,
so
I'm
gonna
refer
to
my
notes,
but
you
know
so
many
of
these
characters
that
hear
and
hit
the
stories
to
tell
there's
a
lot
of
talented
folks
who
are
telling
these
stories.
A
So
I'm
just
trying
to
put
my
perspective
on
what
we
have
as
a
city.
You
know
we've
got
320
years
of
history
right,
and
I
guess
you
know
this.
You
know
this
session
is
about
our
colorful
past
right.
B
A
A
Well,
you
know,
you
know
again,
there's
so
many
special
places,
but
in
in
talking
about
the
you
know,
lazaro
lopez
and
and
endless
cremators
and
and
then,
as
things
happen,
you
know
in
biloxi.
You
know,
for
me,
this
place
is
very
special.
I
can
tell
you
I'll
probably
climb
and
set
set
squirrel
traps
and
most
all
of
these
oak
trees
around
you
right
auggie.
This
was
our
playground.
A
Now
you
know
gambling
was
always
big
and
it
still
is
big
and,
and
the
best
is
yet
to
come.
But
really
we
grew
up
about
three
to
four
blocks
away
from
here
and
I
was
the
first
supermarket.
This
was
west
biloxi.
This
was
at
the
end
of
the
world,
you
know
so
anyway,
my
parents
moved
to
the
1948
open
food
land
supermarket,
and
that
was
the
first
supermarket,
where
you
could
actually
take
a
cart
and
drive
around
pick
up
things.
Now
we
had
seven
aisles
right,
one
house,
two,
you
know
to
shop.
A
True,
I'm
not
here
stout,
your
limitations
is
that
sort
of,
but
anyway
that
was
true
and
as
as
we
grew
up-
and
you
know
we
were
around
that
sort
of
thing.
So
I
get
to
get
a
kick
out
of
it.
We
talked
to
these
general
managers
and-
and
you
know
the
the
gaming
business
and
says
man
y'all-
didn't-
have
to
learn
anything
around
here.
You
knew
it
already.
A
Well,
you
know
fred
hayes
told
a
story
about
biloxi
and
he
I
think
he
was
born
in
33,
34
fred
hayes,
the
astronaut
everybody
knows.
Fred
hayes
was
paul
13..
Well,
he
said
look.
Biloxi
was
a
great
place,
but
it
was
about
15
16
000
people
up
until
1941.
what
happened
in
1941
keisler
and
it
jumped
100
000
people
almost
overnight
and
they
kept
them
all
on
base
right
up
until
payday,
okay,
payday.
A
Then
they
came,
you
know,
then
they
cut
loose,
yeah,
well,
red
light
everything
you
can
think
of,
but
he
said
well,
we
had
a
little.
We
hope
we
put,
we
repaved
howard
avenue
the
other
day
or
actually
put
bricks
on.
We
had
a
little
reunion
at
the
union
bar.
He
told
the
store
he
said.
Listen,
you
know
I
was
a
good
kid.
I
like
to
watch
pool,
but
every
pay
day
at
the
union
bar
and
it
was
a
world
class.
A
They
had
some
world-class
money
games
said
all
the
hustlers
would
come
from
new
orleans
and
mobile
and
try
to
take
these
soldiers
money
and
but
that
was
all
part
of
it
did
another
story
and
every
you
know
there
was
a
restaurant
or
entertainment
of
whatever
you
want,
whatever
you
think,
okay
from
one
place
from
all
the
way
from
granola
street
all
the
way
you
know
past,
you
know
main
street
said
pancho
cavachev's
told
me
the
story.
A
Look,
he
said
if
you
stop
at
every
ballroom
and
have
one
drink
from
main
street
toronto
street,
to
take
you
a
day
and
a
half,
so
that
was
the
kind
of
thing
you
know
that
we
had
and
was
part
of
our
history.
So
you
know
to
be.
You
know,
I'm
absolutely
the
happiest
person
in
the
world
to
be
leading
this
and
telling
you
this
story,
because
it
is
a
true
story.
You
know
my
great-grandfather's
buried
right
there
anton
sico.
A
That
was
his
nephew
and
you
know
so
it's
it's
just
a
tremendous
place
to
to
to
be,
and
it's
that
every
time
I
walk
into
this
cemetery,
you
learn
something
different
when
you
just
you
can
my
wife
said
again,
don't
going
through
rabbit
holes,
but
when
you
can
say
2
plus
two
plus
two
equals
six,
and
you
understand
you
know
the
events
that
happened
to
us
right
from
1900
to
1920.
A
You
know
that's
when
people
started
coming
even
before
1895,
but
you
know
what
happened
in
the
20s
24,
I
believe
was.
There
was
something
called
eugenics
act
and
it
stopped
immigration
for
a
bunch
of
years
until
about
the
40s.
So,
anyway,
things
were
popping.
Prohibition
was
big.
You
know
my
good
friends,
claude
and
mitch
go
over
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
things
that
happened.
You
know
prohibition
to
to
the
40s
in
the
40s.
It
really
skyrocketed.
A
So
you
know
some
distinctive
areas.
You
know
the
the
world
world
war
ii
really
put
us
into
a
different.
You
know
situation
40s
and
50s
in
the
60s.
When
we
all
grew
up,
it's
absolutely
the
best
place
in
the
world.
This
still
is
the
best
place
in
my
opinion,
but
I'm
a
little
biased.
So
look
stop
me.
If
you
have
any
questions
now,
I'm
almost
out
on
this
pitch,
but
but
you
know
again,
you
know
you
can
look
at
20-year
cycles.
A
You
know
the
depression,
you
know
the
world
war
one
and
world
war
ii
and
then,
of
course,
the
70s
and-
and
here
we
are
today
in
92,
the
ball
game
changed
again
with
gaming
and
it
changed
again
in
2018
when
sports
betting
came
along
and
literally
you
can
see
the
linkage
sort
of
a
new
generation
of
what's
happening
in
biloxi
and
again
you
know
it
it's
so
so
cool
to
see
people
and
just
to
talk.
I
talked
to
some
generals
the
other
day.
You
know,
and
it's
still
you
know
the
best.
A
You
know
we
got
the
best
hospital
in
the
air
force
right
there
about
40
000
people
related
to
the
you
know
to
kiesler
and
some
of
the
benefits
and
some
of
the
things
that
they
do
and
of
course,
retirement
couldn't
be
any
better
place,
talked
a
little
bit
about
taxes
lowest
around
right.
A
B
A
F
F
I
had
five
brothers
and
a
sister
francisca.
I
was
the
youngest
of
seven
1912.
We
boarded
a
ship
steamed
out
of
the
harbor,
got
out
into
the
to
the
open
water.
They
threw
the
sail
up
the
funny
thing
about
it
is
it
took
us
a
month
and
a
half
to
get
to
the
united
states
when
we
finally
got
here
my
dad
says
we're
supposed
to
have
gone
on
to
new
orleans,
but
we
got
on
the
wrong
boat
so
that
daddy
said
it's
time
to
get
off,
so
we
got
off
another
funny
thing.
C
F
My
early
years
as
growing
up,
I
was
in
the
tobacco
business
and
as
a
limousine
driver
back
then
it
was
very
fashionable
for
men
to
smoke.
Cigars
made
a
pretty
good
living
at
that,
but
in
the
late
20s
early
30s
I
became
a
bartender
which
back
then
they
call
them
and
there's
a
picture
right
here.
You
probably
can't
see
it's
a
little
bit
far
away
from
me,
but
this
is
back
in
probably
about
31
32.,
it's
at
the
ritz
cafe
in
new
orleans,
so
you
can
tell
the
type
of
high-class
places
they
had
there.
F
F
Here's
a
here's,
an
odd
thing
he's
he
he
worked
there
for
two
years,
never
had
a
day
off,
so
he
asked
his
boss.
He
said
I'd
like
to
take
a
couple
of
you
know,
weeks
off
or
something
he
said
sure
I
don't
have
a
problem,
but
you
have
to
find
somebody
to
replace
you.
So
he
called
me.
I
said:
okay,
what's
it
pay
room
and
board
three
meals
a
day
and
35
a
week
he
said,
but
you
can
make
a
hundred
dollars
a
week
in
tips.
F
F
They
bring
them
down
by
rail
drop
them
off
right
there
in
the
back
and
that
lasted
until
1937,
and
then
I
moved
to
biloxi.
Moving
on
on
lemieux
street
three
doors
down
from
the
box
building
stayed
there
for
a
while.
You
know
got
into
the
bar
business
tavern
business.
What
have
you
world
war
two
broke
out
and
let's
put
it
this
way,
I
got
drafted
13
days
before
I
was
38
years
old
and
I
went
into
the
service
came
back
opened
up
a
place
got
ahead
of
myself.
F
F
I
opened
up
a
place
called
the
avalaize
hotel
bar
very
lucrative,
had
slot
machines
blowing
and
going
here's
a
picture
of
myself
on
the
left,
a
friend
of
mine,
bob
thompson
in
the
middle
and
my
mother,
not
my
mother,
but
my
wife
on
the
right
hand,
side
on
my
right
hand,
side
right
there
and
he
they
had
a
bet
and
whoever
won
the
bet
got
to
kiss
my
wife
on
the
forehead
later
on.
I
was
still
in
the
tavern
business
had
had
several
places.
F
I
went
to
work
for
mr
pj
martino,
who
had
a
bookmaking
operation
at
the
406
club
and
there's
one
thing
I
want
to
tell
you
about
the
406
club.
Everybody
had
a
nickname,
everybody
had
a
nickname,
we're
and
here's
the
funny
thing
about.
It
is
to
open
a
bookmaking
operation.
You
had
to
buy
a
federal
gambling
stamp
from
the
federal
government,
but
yet
they
raided
you.
I
hadn't
figured
that
out
yet
either.
F
So
one
day
we're
in
there
and
the
government
comes
in
they're
ready
to
join.
They
started
confiscating
this
and
that
and
everything
remember
I
told
you-
everybody
had
a
nickname
fed
looked
at.
He
says
uh-huh,
look
at
this
eighty
dollars
for
horse
how
y'all
betting
on
horses
he's.
No,
that's
that
guy
right
over
there.
His
name
is
well!
No,
no!
No!
No!
No!
What
is
this
here
50
dollars
for
pony
now
he
cleans
up
around
here.
That's.
F
He
said
all
right:
what
are
you
tallying
up
there
you're
telling
all
these
you
know,
that's
a
guy
right
over
his
name
is
tally
and
agent
looks
at
he
said.
What
do
you?
I
see
rattler?
What
are
y'all
rattling
dice
in
here?
What
are
you
doing?
You
got
your
dice
game
going.
He
said,
no,
that's
a
guy
right
over
there.
He
runs
a
blu-ray
game.
C
F
He
said
all
right:
what
is
this
with
cotton?
I
mean:
what
are
you
doing,
taking
the
money
stuffing
it
up
and
bagging
it
with
cotton?
He
said.
No,
that's
cotton!
He
runs
a
change
game
for
the
poker
game
right
over
there.
One
agent
looks
at
the
other
agent.
He
said
this
isn't
a
gambling
joint.
This
is
a
zoo,
but
they
tell
mr
martino
got
a
safe
right.
There
open
it
up.
He
said:
there's
nothing
in
the
safe.
F
F
Took
six
agents
to
roll
this
gigantic
safe
out,
they'd
bring
it
out
had
to
get
a
wrecker
pick
it
up
put
it
on
the
back
of
the
wrecking.
You
know
the
flatbed
of
the
wrecker,
one
of
the
guys
said:
pj.
They
just
took
your
safe
they're
gonna.
He
said,
but
there's
nothing
in
it.
He
said
yeah,
but
they're
gonna
bust
it
over.
He
says
I
hope
they
do,
because
it's
rigged
with
tear
gas
and
when
they
got
into
the
courthouse
it
cleared
the
courthouse.
F
After
true
story
and
after
it
was
over
with,
they
got
people's
names
in
it
so
about
a
week
or
two
later,
they
had
to
get
some
people
to
come
up
to
the
courthouse
and
they
had.
You
know
they
wanted
to
talk
to
them.
They
had
the
judge
there
and
they
had
two
particular
gentlemen,
one
of
them
stuttered
real
bad
and
he
called
his
name
and
he
walks
up
there
and
they
said,
mr
so-and-so,
I
say
you
go
to
the
406
club
a
lot.
F
F
Another
gentleman
that
worked
around
there
and
he
had
he
was
born
with
a
handicap.
He
had
a
bad
leg
and
he
had
his
arm
up
like
this.
He
would
walk
and
he
slared
a
lot.
They
walked
up
there,
they
called
his
name
and
he
a
while
he
got
up
there.
The
judge
says
I
understand
mr
so-and-so.
He
said
you're
working,
the
406.,
he
said
he's
sledding.
F
Let
me
make
something
perfectly
clear:
there
was
no
organization,
there
was
no,
every
man
was
independent,
he
was
his
own
boss,
he
had
a
place,
he
had
a
poker
game.
He
ran
at
the
spot
from
the
poker
game.
This
guy
did
it
had
a
guy
that
rented
the
bar,
and
it
was
all
just
it-
was
in
one
building,
but
I
just
wanted
to
let
you
know
about
some
of
the
colorful
characters
and
some
of
the
things
that
went
on
at
the
406
club
in
biloxi.
Thank
you.
G
I'm
going
to
portray
my
father
anthony
haas
misco
worked
at
the
full
sick
club
for
probably
over
40
years.
He
ran
the
poker
at
the
406
and
the
owner
was
mickey
mccool
and
we
had
like
what
was
just
saying
just
a
number
of
characters
that
worked
in
there.
So,
like
I
said
my
father
worked
there
for
over
40
years,
my
father
never
took
a
legitimate
vacation.
G
So
actually
one
time
I
said
why
don't
you
take
a
vacation?
He
said.
I
worked
in
a
seafood
industry
for
25
years,
I'm
on
vacation
every
day,
so
that's
where
he
went
with
that.
They
had
a
boring
man
at
the
full
six
club
who
did
the
horse
racing?
Now
you
guys
think
about
this.
You
got
to
focus
on
this
a
minute
with
chalk
and
water
in
his
hands
in
a
racing
form
and
glasses
over
his
nose.
G
He
had
a
chalkboard
going
down
each
side
and
in
the
middle
he
would
ride
out
three
tracks
in
the
united
states.
Every
year
I
mean
every
day
and
he'd
get
up
to
that
board.
Up
there
and
he'd
write
all
the
horses
in
the
jockeys
the
odds.
The
number
of
the
horse,
and
then
when
they
came
in
wind,
play,
show
cornell
or
whatever
the
price
is
paid.
Chalk
and
water
in
this
man's
hand
for
40
years,
think
about
it
40
years.
G
The
reason
you
used
chocolate
water
was
when
it
dried,
it
came
out
bright,
bright
white
hit.
You
right
in
the
face.
Looked
like
a
monster
monastery
wrote
it
so
it
turned
out
very
beautiful.
So
there
was
another
character
named
douglas
pony
folks,
who
was
the
board
man,
and
he
was
the
board
man
in
the
sports
section,
and
that
was
his
job
was
to
write
all
the
sports
numbers
up
on
the
sports
board
and
all
that
stuff.
So
we
had
some
characters
that
used
to
be
really
great
handicappers.
G
They
hang
around
these
joints
all
the
time
we
had
a
guy
named
money
lesus
from
birmingham
who
wound
up
living
down
here
and
he
was
a
he
loved,
the
handicapped
baseball.
So
this
guy
used
to
bet
7,
18,
paul
a's
all
the
time,
and
so
they
had
those
little
cut
things.
You
could
sit
down
and
watch
the
board
and
everything.
So
he
used
to
take
a
little
nap
on
there
and
every
now
and
then
he'd
pop
his
head
up.
G
So
a
few
times
the
board
man
pulling
he
put
up
this,
I
put
up
there
a
number
and
he'd
pop
his
head
up
and
he
said
pony
you
put
a
walking
stick
up
there
on
me.
You
cost
me
18
paul.
A
a
walking
stick
is
seven
runs
another
time
he
was
laying
down
there
sleeping
popped
up
and
he
looked
at
the
boat
and
said
pony
you
put
a
pretzel
on
me
this
time.
He
said
you
cost
me.
Another
18
paul
in
a
pretzel
was
an
eight,
so
this
was
the
kind
of
characters
that
were
there.
G
We
had
another
guy
from
birmingham
who's
whose
family
ran
the
book
making
operations
in
birmingham
alabama
named
joe
robino.
So
joe
was
a
very
large
man.
He
probably
weighed
about
400
pounds
and
he
was
a
great
great
handicapper
at
the
same
time
he's
a
very
temperamental
kind
of
a
fella.
So
this
story
is
going
to
go
a
little
bit
ahead
of
time.
It's
going
to
go
up
a
little
head
one
night
when
the
gambling
joints
open
here
in
the
city
at
the
luxury
grand
hotel.
G
He
was
playing
21
and
he
got
in
the
beef
with
the
with
the
dealers
and
everything
about
a
particular
payoff
and
they
wouldn't
pay.
He
said
I'll
fix
y'all,
so
he
went
to
the
front
door
and
he
beat
himself
in
the
front
of
the
door.
400
pounds
was
laying
on
the
front
door,
nobody
get
through
the
door,
so
they
had
to
call
the
fire
department
here
to
get
a
gurney
and
pop
him
up
on
the
gurney
and
get
him
out
of
the
joint.
G
G
You
know
gambling
joints
in
the
city
of
blux,
the
fiesta
club
was
run
by
buddha,
miladni,
jake
and
joe
and
mladnitch,
and
if
any
of
you
remember
george
clavis,
he
was
the
casino
manager
at
the
time
and
he
went
into
to
las
vegas,
like
I
myself
did
for
46
years,
and
these
are
the
kind
of
people
that
paid
gaming
in
this
city
very
profitable
and
a
beautiful
attraction
for
the
tourists
that
came
here.
You
know
you
had
to
miss
the
lucky
club.
G
You
had
the
mr
porterhouse
club,
you
had
the
gay
parent,
you
had
the
key
club
that
john
romeo
was
affiliated
with,
and
you
had
the
ucelo
brothers
who
had
four
of
them.
They
were
affiliated
with
a
lot
of
gambling
joints
in
town,
so
we
had
many
many
opportunities
to
gamble
in
this
town,
which
was
really
great.
The
thing
that
needs
to
be
known,
above
all
all
of
these
men
with
very
honorable,
trustworthy,
human
beings,
honor
trust
and
credit
credibility
was
their
code.
You
don't
do
anything
for
40
to
45
years,
if
you're
not
honorably
trustworthy.
G
So
this
is
what
all
these
men
are
always
trusted
all
over.
In
the
communities,
so
we
also
had
a
character
in
in
bluxy
mississippi,
and
his
name
was
iggy
moran
earl,
francis
gigi
moran,
and
he
was
a
hell
of
a
handicap
himself,
but
he
used
to
get
the
line
early
in
the
day.
So
what
he
used
to
do,
he
used
to
come
up
and
he
was.
He
would
tell
me
and
he's
like
wayne
pavlow.
He
said,
while
you
guys
were
sleeping,
I
got
five
lines
from
all
over
the
united
states.
G
C
H
H
Once
I
graduated
from
biloxi
high
and
went
on
to
xavier
university
in
new
orleans,
where
I
majored
in
music,
and
I
sang
with
the
new
orleans
opera
for
about
10
years
and
then
just
moved
all
around
and
then
finally
wound
up
back
here
in
biloxi.
But
enough
about
me,
let
me
tell
you
about
main
street
biloxi.
My
parents,
like
I
said,
were
entrepreneurs.
They
owned
streamlined
beauty
and
barbershop
there
on
main
street
in
biloxi
and
across
the
street
from
us.
Was
this
lively,
joint
called
pearlies
miss
pearly,
who
had
a
lively
club
there?
H
They
had
good
music,
they
had
good,
moonshine
and
other
illegal
things
happening
there
back
in
1969.
She
was
arrested
for
some
of
those
illegal
things
that
she
had
going
on
in
her
establishment,
but
hers
wasn't
the
only
one
that
was
king's
place
that
also
got
raided
during
that
time.
So
the
community
was
always
on
high
alert
for
something
going
on
on
main
street
biloxi,
because
it
was
a
lively
street.
H
H
I
could
not
wait
until
I
got
of
age
and
I
could
go
to
these
nightclubs
to
see
what
was
going
on
up
in
there
that
I
would
hear
people
talk
about,
but
you
know
I
would
get
the
beat
down
if
I
went
down
in
there
and
with
my
parents,
knowledge
that
was
not
happening
as
you
can
see,
I'm
wearing
this
jersey
that
says
biloxi
dorje's,
my
dad
was
the
owner
of
the
biloxi
dorages,
the
first
negro
league
in
the
state
of
mississippi.
That
was
recognized.
H
Now
we
are
being
recognized
by
the
suckers
every
season
when
they
open
up.
They
invite
living
biloxi
dodgers
and
the
owner's
daughter
to
come
out
to
the
games
and
they
recognize
us
and
if
anybody
is
still
able
to
get
that
ball
over
the
plate
and
throw
out
that
first
pitch,
they
allow
a
biloxi
dodger
to
do
that.
So
we
are
very
excited
to
do
that.
H
So
they
would
stay
in
my
parents,
boarding
house,
my
parents
didn't
have
a
kitchen
in
these
boarding
houses,
so
they
would
go
down
to
places
like
the
kitty
cat,
the
twilight
grill
and
even
some
of
these
bars
they
had
bar
food
there.
It
was
just
wonderful
to
step
outside
your
door
and
walk
down
main
street
on
a
friday
or
a
saturday
night
and
smell
that
ground,
mullet
and
smell
that
chicken
frying
just
coming
out
of
these
establishments.
It
was
just
the
bomb,
it
was
just
the
mom.
H
We
also
had
some
fights
on
main
street,
mainly
when
the
airmans
from
kiesler
air
force
base
came
into
the
community
and
of
course
it
wasn't
always
because
of
the
liquor.
It
was
because
they
were
getting
a
little
too
close
to
the
girly
whirlys,
the
local
girls
there.
So
you
know
the
fellas
didn't
like
that,
so
they
would
send
them
running
back
to
keisler
and,
of
course,
keisha
slapped
this
label
on
main
street,
the
red
zone,
hello,
the
red
zone-
and
it
still
exists
today
and
ain't
nothing
going
on
on
main
street
today.
H
Trust
me
ain't,
nothing
going
on
on
main
street
today.
So
while
they
would
still
have
that
label
slapped
on
main
street,
heaven
only
knows,
but
they
do
so
go
figure,
but
main
street
was
truly
a
lively
street
main
street
had
all
type
of
activity,
illegal
and
legal.
While
I
was
growing
up
and
still
today
and
unfortunately
that
music,
where
we
were
once
labeled,
also
part
of
the
chitlin
circuit,
we
no
longer
have
that
because
that
music
no
longer
exists
on
main
street
biloxi.
H
No
musicians
are
coming
from
alabama
louisiana
to
play
in
any
club,
because
there
are
no
clubs.
There
is
one
club,
I'm
sorry
the
blue
note,
but
it's
not
operational.
It's
just
standing
there.
The
building
where
you
knew
the
blue
note
was
it's
still
there,
but
no
life
in
it
at
all,
but
we're
just
hoping
one
day,
some
entrepreneur,
some
musician
will
come
back
into
the
community
and
breathe
new
life
into
the
community
and
maybe
dance
us
into
a
new
era
on
main
street
biloxi.
Thanks
for
coming
appreciate,
you
thank.
C
I
Upon
the
grave
of
my
grandfather,
anson
holly
senior
and
near
my
grave
of
my
father,
just
beyond
the
oak
tree,
anson
holly
jr,
I'm
here
to
tell
you
my
little
story
of
biloxi,
my
slice
of
biloxi
history.
Now
my
name
is
daniel
raymond
holly.
Now
my
mother
fled
a
camp.
Holly
carrington
called
me
danny
ray
everyone
else.
Just
called
me
danny.
I
I
My
parents
divorced
in
1947
when
I
was
six
years
old
and
my
brother
anson
campy
holly
was
eight
well
my
mother
remarried
about
the
time
I
started
first
grade
over
at
lopez
elementary
school.
By
that
time
I
had
already
begun
taking
piano
lessons
from
mrs
huffmaker.
Oh
everybody
said
I
was
a
natural
at
the
piano
you
see
back,
then
we
had
recitals
and
school
functions
and
pageants.
So
I
had
many
opportunities
to
perform
and
I
did
in
1949
at
the
age
of
eight
I
was
the
master
of
ceremonies
and
a
performer
at
biloxi's
250th
birthday.
I
Well,
by
the
time
I
reached
the
age
of
13,
I
was
playing
sacred
and
liturgical
music
at
some
of
the
local
churches,
and
some
of
those
churches
were
even
paying
me
well,
while
I
was
there
at
those
churches,
this
new
genre
of
music
really
fostered
my
lifelong
love
affair
for
a
certain
musical
instrument,
the
organ.
Well,
I
continued
my
studies
at
the
southern
missionary
college
in
tennessee,
and
I
also
studied
under
famed
orchestra
conductor
lawrence
oden.
I
I
Oh,
we
had
beautiful
hotels,
hollywood
style,
pools,
fishing,
boating,
nightclubs
and
gambling.
Was
it
legal,
of
course
not,
but
it
didn't
slow
it
down
one
bit.
Oh,
the
authorities
would
make
a
show
of
it
occasionally
and
try
to
confiscate
some
of
the
slot
machines
and
roulette
wheels,
but
but
the
owners
always
knew
when
they
were
going
to
show
up
just
in
time
to
remove
the
paraphernalia
from
the
floors.
Now
I
always
wondered
how
they
knew
they
were
going
to
show
up.
Surely
no
one
in
authority
tipped
them
off
right?
I
Well,
I
played
some
great
clubs
back
then,
the
fiesta
club
owned
by
the
miladnich
brothers,
john
and
jake,
two
of
the
shrewdest
businessmen
you
ever
did
meet
now.
Not
only
did
they
have
the
best
entertainment
on
the
gulf
coast
pretty
much.
The
fiesta
was
a
full-blown
casino
out
there.
Everybody
knew
it
and
didn't
care.
Now,
while
I
was
there,
I
got
to
perform
with
a
group
called
betty
lopez
in
her
continentals.
Let
me
show
you
a
picture
here.
I
I
am
barely
out
of
high
school
right
here,
noting
the
the
the
sleeves
of
the
fiesta
days
at
the
caribbean
club.
Right
here
is
betty
lopez.
She
was
a
fabulous
dancer
and
entertainer
from
new
orleans
and
was
quite
popular
on
the
biloxi
strip.
Now
not
only
did
we
perform
at
the
fiesta,
we
also
performed
in
the
creo
room,
which
was
a
small
venue
just
below
the
biloxi
motor
hotel.
I
I
worked
there
enough
and
earned
enough
that
I
eventually
took
over
the
operation
of
the
creole
room
and
had
my
own
nighttime
venue.
I
worked
at
some
wonderful
clubs,
the
the
buena
vista,
the
broad
water,
oh
and
I
met
hundreds
of
people
across
the
world.
One
particular
person
was
a
talent
scout
that
told
me
to
move
to
detroit
and
I
did
and
my
life
would
change
forever.
I
Now,
when
I
got
to
detroit,
I
established
myself
and
got
gigs
all
over
the
country,
canada
and
abroad.
Oh
and
I
got
to
open
up
for
some
major
headliners
one
particular
one.
One
was
my
favorite
that
you
may
remember
rich
little,
do
you
know
him?
Oh,
he
was
a
master
of
a
million
voices,
a
truly
gifted
impressionist.
I
Oh
a
funny
story.
Once
I
asked
mother
to
come
up
to
see
me
in
a
show,
while
I
was
performing
with
rich,
so
she
arrived
at
the
airport.
A
car
picked
her
up
and
took
her
to
the
theater
and
she
walked
in
and
went
backstage
and
found
me
in
the
dressing
room
and
we
hugged
real
good
and
she
pulled
me
back
pushed
me
back
and
she
said
danny
ray.
I
am
so
disappointed.
I
I
thought
I
told
you
never
to
brag
and
I
said
mother,
what
are
you
talking
about
and
she
said
oh
danny,
danny
ray
danny
ray.
I
am
so
disappointed
and
so
embarrassed.
I
saw
it
up
on
the
billboard
and
I
said
mother.
What
are
you
talking
about
and
she
said
I
saw
it
in
big
letters
rich
little,
danny
holly,
oh
mother,
rich
little
is
a
performer.
Don't
you
ever
watch
television?
I
Well,
I
guess
you'd
say
the
the
highlight
of
my
musical
professional
career
was
when
I
was
on
the
tonight,
show
with
johnny
carson.
You
know
that
meant
you
hit
the
big
time
back
in
the
day.
Well
later
on,
I
opened
up
my
own
music
school
in
michigan,
where
I
taught
hundreds
of
people
to
play
piano
in
oregon.
I
After
my
studio
burned
down,
I
moved
to
slidell,
where
I
got
to
to
spend
the
last
few
years
with
my
mother
before
she
passed
away.
When
she
did,
I
wrote
a
song
entitled
if
you
see
mama
before
I
do.
She
was
so
special
to
me.
I
love
to
help
people.
Oh
over
the
years,
I
played
many
many
charitable
events
and
fundraisers.
I
You
know
when
you
retire.
You
should
give
back
to
the
community
right.
Oh
you
know.
Some
people
asked
me
over
the
years.
What
were
some
of
my
favorite
pieces
of
music
to
play
on
the
hammond
organ?
Well,
the
phantom
of
the
opera
from
broadway
fabulous
piece:
oh
star
wars,
john
williams
was
a
genius
and
of
course,
oh,
the
sound
of
music,
my
goodness
that
was
certainly
an
eclectic
mix
of
music
right.
I
Well,
in
my
later
years,
I
fulfilled
a
lifelong
dream.
I
wrote
a
novel
and
I
was
thrilled
when
the
city
of
biloxi
invited
me
to
do
a
book
signing
at
the
magnolia
hotel,
the
first
famed
hotel
of
the
mississippi
gulf
coast
and
a
hotel
so
close
to
my
holly
family
history,
a
story
for
another
time.
You
know
I
love
coming
back
to
biloxi
to
visit
no
matter
how
far
you
roam
home
is
always
home
right
and
I
am
biloxi
as
quoted
by
your
mayor.
I
C
J
J
My
family's
roots
go
back
to
the
very
beginning
to
biloxi's
first
settlers
in
the
very
early
1700s
when
this
area
was
under
french
rule.
Long
before
there
was
a
united
states,
biloxi
was
discovered
in
1699
by
the
ibraville,
a
french
canadian,
whose
crews
certainly
gambled
on
these
very
shores,
but
those
likely
weren't
biloxi's.
First
gamblers.
We
know
that
the
natives
of
mississippi
the
chickasaw,
the
choctaw
and
the
biloxi
themselves
gambled
on
a
on
a
game
similar
to
lacrosse
called
ishtaboli,
hey
biloxian's
betting
on
football.
Well,
I
guess
some
things,
never
change.
K
You
are
so
right,
my
friend,
and
I
would
just
add
that
gambling
is
as
essential
to
biloxi's
culture
and
tourism
as
its
magnificent
sunsets,
its
boat
tours
and
its
beautiful
beaches,
and
I
should
know
I'm
john
wright,
anderson,
colonel
john
wright
anderson,
I'm
not
a
native
biloxian
by
birth,
but
I
became
one
because
I
was
so
taken
so
completely
taken
by
this
area's
beauty
and
possibility
so
much
so
that
I
became
an
early
hotel
owner
here
in
the
city.
K
Oh-
and
we
also
know
now,
those
early
french
settlers
played
card
games
with
promissory
notes,
how's,
that
for
betting
on
the
outcome
and
our
early
spanish
settlers.
They
were
very
fond
of
betting
on
horse
races,
both
enjoyed
betting
on
games
with
dice,
and
all
of
these
were
available
as
games
of
chance
right
here
in
old
biloxi.
J
K
K
K
J
That
colonel
by
1924,
you
and
a
group
of
businessmen
were
the
founders
and
builders
of
the
buna
vista
hotel,
a
mission-style
stucco
beauty
designed
by
carl
mathis
buena
vista,
a
name
that
would
become
synonymous
with
biloxi
hospitality
that
next
year
1925
you
and
I
invested
in
a
venture
undertaken
by
skeet
hunt
on
a
small
strip
of
land
called
dog
key
island
between
horn
and
ship
island.
That
venture
would
become
known
as
the
isle
of
capris
picture.
It,
the
roaring,
20s
everyone
looking
for
a
way
to
celebrate
and
live
it
up
on
our
private
island
paradise.
J
We
offered
them
a
legal
way
to
drink
and
gamble.
You
see
we
were
in
international
waters,
far
from
pesky
prohibition
with
his
bathtub
gin
and
blind
tigers
on
the
isle
of
caprice.
There
was
no
hiding,
but
it
was
more
than
just
the
forbidden.
We
offered
luxury
resort
accommodations,
complete
with
dance
hall,
restaurant
and
myriad
recreational
opportunities.
J
If
you
were
a
biloxian
coming
for
the
day
or
a
tourist
coming
to
stay
for
a
while
pete
skermetta's
pan
american
would
pick
you
up
at
one
of
biloxi's
resort,
piers,
75
cents
and
a
90-minute
boat
ride
would
sell
you
straight
to
all
the
fun.
Oh,
but
the
boat
ride
itself
was
a
ball
jazz.
Dan
tap
dancers
were
wet
wheel.
In
fact,
in
1927
alone,
the
pan
american
brought
40
000
visitors
to
the
isle
of
capris.
J
People
flocked
from
across
the
country
to
the
aisle.
Even
a
sorority
from
california
showed
up
big
hollywood
names
like
ethel
barrimore,
made
repeat
appearances
swimming
in
the
blue
green
waters
of
the
gulf
in
the
morning,
sunbathing
in
the
afternoon,
dancing
with
the
orchestras
in
the
evening
all
while
enjoying
the
latest
cocktail.
Well,
it's
easy
to
see
why
it
was
so
very
popular.
K
Until
until
until
the
old
indian
legend
came
true
now
the
original
native
americans
here
had
an
old
legend
that
said
that
the
island
rose
and
sank
and
would
do
so
again
in
the
future
well
by
the
mid-1930s.
Anyone
who
lived
here
could
tell
you
that
was
no
legend.
It
was
no
tale
that
was
absolute
fact.
The
entire
isle
of
caprice
sank
beneath
the
waters
of
the
gulf.
K
Now
before
this
disaster
struck,
the
resort
had
been
battered
by
some
hard
times.
A
couple
of
hurricanes
had
hit
it.
The
great
depression
sure
took
its
toll
on
us
and
in
1930
vandals
set
fire
to
the
property,
all
that
was
left
visible
after
that
was
a
single
pipe
sticking
up
about
six
feet
above
sea
level,
with
fresh
water
running
through
it.
K
K
I
was
living
there
as
resident
manager
in
1939
when
I
died.
The
good
folks
at
the
o'keefe
funeral
parlor
took
care
of
my
remains
sent
me
back
home
to
memphis
tennessee,
where
I
was
buried
in
elmwood
cemetery.
Next
to
my
wife,
elizabeth
who
had
died
about
10
years
earlier
now
during
my
tenure
here
in
biloxi,
I
had
the
honor
to
serve
the
term
as
president
of
the
biloxi
chamber
of
commerce,
and
I
was
also
a
founder
of
the
biloxi
rotary
club,
which
I
understand
is
now
celebrating
its
98th
year
of
service
to
our
local
community.
J
So
it
is
colonel
the
1930s
and
40s
were
the
era
of
the
big
beachfront
hotel,
the
tivoli,
the
broadwater
beach
and
the
expanded
white
house
all
continued,
offering
gambling
to
their
customers.
I
passed
in
1946
and
I'm
buried
here
in
the
biloxi
cemetery
just
across
the
way.
This
is
the
grave
of
my
father,
for
whom
I
am
named.
My
uncle
raymond
kivat
was
an
early
mayor
of
biloxi.
J
C
C
E
E
My
birth
was
in
1786.,
my
family,
the
rhines
were
irish.
The
firstborn
in
this
country
was
daniel
ryan.
My
grandfather
he
would
live
and
die
in
savannah
georgia,
where
the
rhines
made
their
home
for
over
50
years
before
finding
their
way
to
louisiana
and
finally,
mississippi
st
sierra
and
I
wed
june
28
1808
in
new
orleans
at
st
mary's
catholic
church
on
charter
street.
E
E
There
is
also
no
church
established
here,
yet
it
wouldn't
be
for
another
35
years
until
the
nativity
of
the
blessed
virgin
mary
catholic
church
was
built,
the
first
church
of
any
kind
in
biloxi
and
the
second
catholic
church
in
mississippi
all
his
life
saints.
There
was
a
sailor.
He
either
fished
or
worked
cargo
ships
in
the
city
to
earn
a
living.
E
E
E
It
wasn't
until
the
near
end
of
my
life,
where
most
places
in
the
united
states
banned
alcohol
of
every
kind
tempered
societies
informed
the
people
of
the
evils
and
dangers
of
drinking.
This
is
when
the
men
began
to
call
it.
Moonshine
because
they
had
to
make
the
concoction
in
the
night,
and
only
by
the
light
of
the
moon,
our
tomb
is
one
of
the
very
oldest
in
this
very
old
burial
place.
E
It
has
been
a
terrible
condition
until
my
great
great
great
grandson
took
interest
in
preserving
it.
His
last
name
is
seymour,
that's
how
they
say
it
now.
The
committee
that
hosts
this
event
each
year
has
pledged
to
help
pay
for
my
repairs,
artists
and
his
numbers
in
the
tenths
of
thousands.
Are
you
my
descendant's
grandchild
too?
Please
help
preserve
your.
L
History
good
day,
thank
you
for
staying
at
the
broadwater,
we'll
see
you
again
real
soon.
That
was
the
standard
way.
I
greeted
the
guests
and
the
hallways
of
my
beloved
broadwater
beach
resort,
I'm
evelyn
hill
and
I'm
buried
right
back
there.
I
started
as
a
maid,
some
would
say
a
housekeeper,
but
the
wonderful
businesswoman
who
took
over
the
broadwater
saw
something
special
in
me
and
under
her
guidance
I
became
head
of
housekeeping.
L
I
was
a
young
girl
when
I
started
working
the
hotels
on
the
beaches
in
biloxi,
but
I
was
a
working
mother.
When
I
met
dorothy
brown,
I
learned
so
much
from
her
and
I'm
forever
grateful
for
the
love
and
concern
she
showed
me
and
all
of
her
employees.
I
guess
you
could
say
she
was
more
than
a
boss.
She
was
also
a
friend.
M
M
Yes,
we
met
in
the
great
state
of
texas,
the
blessed
union
of
joe
w
brown
and
me
dorothy.
Dorsett
brown
was
well.
It
was
destined
to
be
as
big
as
texas
itself.
Aha,
I
see
a
flicker
of
memory.
You
do
remember
me
when
biloxian
said
the
name,
dorothy
brown,
it
was
synonymous
with
the
broad
water
beach
resort.
M
M
M
M
And
las
vegas
at
our
vegas
horseshoe
club
joe
concocted
a
unique
display:
ten
thousand
dollar
bills.
In
fact,
one
million
dollars
worth
of
ten
thousand
dollar
bills,
while
the
insurance
on
the
display
alone
cost
fifty
thousand
dollars
a
year.
But
oh,
it
brought
those
vegas
tourists
in
oh.
We
also
took
a
shared
interest
of
ours
and
turned
it
into
a
profitable
pastime
thoroughbred
horse
racing
over
the
years
joe
and
I
took
home
six
louisiana
derby
winners,
our
first
in
49
rockwood,
all
the
way
to
el
baba
in
82.
M
M
Well,
there's
two
things
certain
in
my
recollection:
the
browns
loved
biloxi
and
biloxians
loved
to
gamble.
While
when
the
broadwater
was
born
in
1939,
a
dream
realized
by
pete
martin,
the
original
owner,
it
was
built
specifically
as
a
gambling
resort.
Yes,
this
was
during
prohibition
and
yes,
this
was
long
before
gambling
would
be
legal
here.
Well,
the
only
place
that
gambling
was
legal
in
the
country
was
in
nevada
at
that
time,
and
it
had
only
legalized
it.
M
M
M
The
estate
at
the
time
of
his
death
was
valued
at
57
million
dollars
well
by
today's
standards.
That
would
be
several
billion
act.
Two
for
me
at
age,
63
was
beginning
in
biloxi
like
joe.
I
could
just
see
the
potential
of
this
special
place,
so
I
just
hitched
up
my
britches
and
hired
me
some
contractors
and
engineers.
M
M
We
went
on
a
tour
of
resort
pools
until
I
finally
found
the
one
and
thus
was
born
the
beautiful
broadwater
lanai
pool.
Now
wasn't
that
thing
breathtaking?
Oh
all!
Right
now
how
many
of
y'all
managed
to
sneak
in
well,
I
chose
all
of
the
interior
colors
of
the
hotel,
and
I
designed
all
the
bars
and
restaurants.
M
M
Another
brilliant
idea
I
had
was
to
build
the
trophy
lounge.
Now
this
would
be
a
place
where
we
could
display
all
of
our
cups
and
trophies
from
a
thoroughbred
winners.
Over
the
years
eddie
johnston
of
chalmette
was
my
carpenter
of
choice
to
build
the
piano
bar
in
the
trophy
lounge.
Well,
he
was
so
talented
that
I
just
asked
him
if
he
would
stay
on
and
oversee
the
massive
undertaking
of
the
marina.
M
Now
wasn't
that
place
state
of
the
art
why
you
could
just
pull
in
docky
vessel
and
order
room
service
right
from
your
boat
leon
kellner
and
his
orchestra
was
the
cherry
on
top
of
the
classiest
resort
in
the
southeastern
usa
and
me.
Well,
I
had
a
private
suite
on
the
second
floor,
I
still
lived
in
new
orleans,
but
I
spent
lots
of
long
weekends
at
the
broad
water
over
the
years.
The
things
that
brought
the
most
memories
to
me
were
the
relationships
made
at
the
broad
water.
M
M
N
Pull
walter
poor,
poor
walter
ipads
crossed
and
your
life
was
forever
changed,
though
I
was
not
from
biloxi.
I
certainly
put
my
mark
on
it.
I'm
corinne
larose,
my
name
was
often
in
the
daily
herald.
I
can
almost
hear
your
thoughts.
What
did
you
do?
Corrine?
The
things
I
did
not
do
is
a
shorter
list.
N
In
my
time,
letters
of
introduction
confirmed
a
person's
identity,
making
a
big
name
for
yourself
confirmed
who
you
were
as
well
bell
star.
James
copeland
and
jesse
james
are
all
still
in
america's
vernacular
after
a
hundred
years
after
they
made
their
mark
well
like
bell
star,
the
name
that
became
infamous
is
not
the
name
I
was
born
with.
I
was
born
holly
burnett
in
brunswick
georgia
in
june
of
1863.
N
by
1880,
the
family
had
grown
to
seven
children
and
mama
had
died.
My
brother
robert
and
I
were
the
middle
children.
We
continued
to
grow
and
separate,
and
some
headed
west,
my
father
and
robert
eventually
settled
in
houston,
texas,
and
I
arrived
here
in
1902.,
now,
brunswick
being
a
little
coastal
town
on
the
atlantic.
I
felt
it
would
prove
beneficial
to
come
to
a
little
seaside.
Town
like
biloxi
and
starting
out
in
biloxi
was
not
easy
and
being
a
woman
left
very
few
options.
N
The
companionship
was
the
route
I
took,
but
the
company
of
spencer's
was
not.
What
I
saw
oh
pleasure
was
easy
business
for
women
who
did
not
have
any
connections
and
the
good
leaders
of
biloxi
always
had
thy
eye
on.
Anyone
who
practiced
the
world's
oldest
profession
in
1896,
mayor,
bradford
and
alderman,
one
of
which
was
involved
in
a
scandal
with
such
women,
created
the
vagrancy
ordinance.
N
N
Now
the
daily
hell
referred
to
us
as
the
demi
moon,
the
french
word,
meaning
any
person
living
outside
the
societal
norms.
Well,
that
was
just
a
gentile
way
of
saying
prostitute.
He
gave
one
a
fancy
feeling
now.
My
first
fine
was
in
1908
for
ten
dollars
well
with
inflation
that
would
be
282
dollars.
N
N
N
N
N
N
Now
the
trial
that
ensued
revealed
that
walter
suspected
ben
of
having
an
affair
with
his
wife
and
walter
had
allegedly
threatened
ben's
life
alone.
That
night
after
consuming
illegal
alcohol
ben
came
to
my
place
and
finding
walter
there.
I
confronted
him
being
william
mate
walter
made
a
move
and
being
shot
him.
Now.
The
the
trial
brought
my
boarding
house
to
the
forefront
of
the
biloxi
news
and
ben
was
found
not
guilty.
N
Naben's
father
was
judge,
nat
bolton.
Well,
that's
not
an
insinuation.
Just
just
a
fact.
Now,
sometime
after
the
trial
ben
moved
on
over
there
to
mobile
now
after
the
trial,
oh
everything
returned
to
normal,
and
I
lived
my
life
and
stayed
out
of
the
headlines
of
the
daily
herald.
I
died
on
august,
the
24th
1925..
N
O
P
I
sure
hope
so
when
I
declared
that
we
would
shut
down
all
blind
tigers
and
other
places
that
sold
illegal
liquor,
I
meant
it
and
thanks
to
you
and
other
officers,
we
might
have
done
it
now.
I
bet
none
of
these
good
people
have
ever
been
in
a
blind
tiger,
unusual
name
for
a
joint
that
sells
illegal
liquor
named
because
these
places
used
to
expose
poor
animals.
P
As
part
of
the
draw,
I
know
mayor,
edward
glennon
and
the
good
people
of
biloxi
are
counting
on
us
to
shut
down
places
that
selling
illegal
liquor
operating
gambling
houses
and
running
questionable
resorts.
Now
we
didn't
find
any
animals
in
the
places
we
raided.
We
started
out
on
point
cadet
and
moved
west
with
our
operation.
This
is
1916
and
there
should
be
no
such
tom,
fuller
here
in
biloxi.
O
P
Blandi,
you
and
your
our
families
have
been
here
an
awful
long
time
and
we're
both
proud
to
serve
the
people
of
biloxi.
Now
I
know
that
your
wife
alice
kivad
blandi
and
your
seven
children
are
proud
of
you,
while
your
house
on
le
muse
is
always
filled
with
laughter.
Even
when
you
arrested
your
son
roy
for
riding
his
bicycle
on
the
street
with
no
headlights,
that's
the
law
and
you
arrested
your
brother-in-law,
arbo
kaivan
of
the
white
kitchen
on
lemieux.
P
O
Yeah,
our
beau
and
roy
was
sure
upset
with
me,
but
the
law
can
show
no
favoritism.
I've
arrested
men
for
shooting
dogs,
I've
arrested,
questionable,
dissolute
women,
I've
arrested
friends
for
bringing
liquor
into
the
city
off
their
schooners
and
many
others
all
the
way.
From
the
point
down
to
pops
ferry.
P
And
the
people
of
biloxi
appreciate
you
now.
I
know
that
few
people
know
you
by
your
real
name.
Pierre
most
know
you
as
peter.
They
see
you
on
the
biloxi
blues,
baseball
team,
at
local
civic
meetings
and
out
walking
to
beat
your
four
brothers
and
sister
are
very
well
respected
and
your
father
captain
peter
balanti
is
a
well-known
schooner
pilot
and
civil
war.
Veteran.
O
My
family
have
called
the
mississippi
coast
home
for
many
decades.
I
believe
your
family
moved
here
in
1888
from
outside
lorraine,
france.
After
the
franco-prussian
war
in
europe,
were
both
members
of
the
church
of
nativity.
That's
right,
you,
sir,
have
been
the
treasurer
of
the
biloxi
benevolent
society
for
a
good
number
of
years.
The
name
louis
saline
is
very
well
respected.
O
I
hear
that
the
the
balls
at
the
fireman's
hall
and
the
society's
banquets
at
the
magnolia
hotel
are
really
something
you
and
your
wife
henrietta
are
very
active
in
the
church.
That's
right
and
it
sure
comes
in
handy
when
we
need
to
talk
to
those
seafood
workers
who
speak
either,
austrian
or
italian,
that
you
speak
so
many
languages
six.
I
believe.
P
O
P
But
he
loved
the
gulf
coast
and
especially
biloxi
on
august
22
1916,
when
I
ordered
all
blind
tigers
and
other
places
to
be
shut
down
and
rated
and
shut
down.
I
knew
those
who
made
a
living
selling
the
liquor
would
be
upset,
but
we
had
to
do
it
because
of
what
happened
over
at
governor
bilbo's
house.
No
wait.
I
think
we
need
to
explain
further
officer
blandi.
Do
you
recall
the
details.
O
P
Biloxi
was
proud
to
have
him
here
and
to
have
been
chosen
as
the
summer
capital
for
the
governor,
but
on
the
night
of
august
19th
we
had
us
a
terrible
problem
over
at
the
dooleon
home.
Now
the
bilbos
were
out
for
the
evening
and
they
left
the
home
in
the
cara,
cora
harris
and
adora
king
are
two
negro
women
who
work
for
him.
They
were
both
jail
trustees
who
had
been
hired
by
the
bilbos
each
had
a
15-year
sentence
with
harris,
completing
10
and
king,
serving
almost
all
of
hers.
O
Like
you
said
on
the
night
of
august,
the
19th,
these
two
women
allowed
jesse
brewer
a
local
negro
man
to
come
to
the
house
to
bring
wine
to
drink
after
a
while,
they
all
became
intoxicated
a
fight
soon
broke
out
amongst
the
two
women
with
hair
stabbing
king
in
her
back
shoulders
and
sides.
She
even
cut
off
one
of
king's
little
fingers
well.
P
O
P
We
started
by
arresting
tony
stanovich
down
at
the
miley
hotel,
where
officer
bellandi
found
12
gallons
of
claret
wine
and
a
cask
of
beer.
Well,
then,
we
moved
on
to
the
point
cadet
and
the
gorn
flow
camps
on
the
back
bay,
where
schooners
would
bring
in
wine
beer
and
three
cases
of
whiskey.
Even
a
gallon
of
gin
was
confiscated.
P
Well,
then,
blandy
moved
on
to
the
division
street
district,
which
was
a
hotbed
of
activity
and
made
a
rest.
Now
we
conducted
raids
at
the
yellow
jacket
at
the
oliveberry
building
on
howard,
a
desport's
place
on
crocius,
the
gray,
goose,
the
red
onion
on
elmer
street
and
the
west
end
cafe.
All
for
storing
and
selling
illegal
liquor.
O
O
P
P
Well,
I
I
think
we
both
know
how
that
turned
out
thanks.
C
D
Rosie,
thank
you
so
much
for
shopping
with
me
today.
I
know
it's
a
bad
time,
but
I'm
standing
for
antonia
and
madre's
baby
next
weekend.
It's
saint
michael
and
mary
margaret
is
in
the
homecoming
court
at
sacred
heart
and
notre
dame
in
just
a
couple
of
days
and
shopping
with
an
11th.
Grader
is
pure
d,
misery.
D
B
D
D
Let's
do
that
cause
ben
said.
I
need
to
dress
mary
margaret
in
style,
new
gloves,
nylon,
shoes,
hats
suit.
You
know
the
works
daddy's
little
girl.
You
know
how
it
is.
Look.
I've
been
reading
about
this
cafe
and
you
know
he's
going
all
over
this
country
on
his
crusade
against
gambling.
It
ain't
just
here
he's
from
kentucky
and
he's
got
senators
from
all
over
helping
him.
I
even
heard
that
senator
johnson
from
texas
was
on
his
side.
B
D
Well,
vince
said
they
don't
have
a
choice.
Now
I
mean
the
whole
country's
watching.
There
are
more
cameras
downtown
than
after
the
hurricane
of
47.,
and
you
know
they
put
on
this
show
before
they
go
in,
they
confiscate
the
slots
and
the
wheels,
and
then
they
throw
them
all
in
the
bay
and
then
they
go
back
to
their
offices
and
ignore
it
as
soon
as
it
starts
up
again.
B
Oh
listen,
we
all
know
the
tourists
come
here
for
two
things:
seafood
and
slots.
I
mean
for
crime
in
his
sakes.
If
we
stop
giving
the
tourists
what
they
want,
won't
they
stop
coming
yeah.
Oh,
I
found
something
you
might
be
interested
in.
You
remember
those
ministers
that
formed
that
group
to
protest.
The
open
gambling
well
listen
to
what
one
of
them
had
to
say
to
a
reporter
from
the
saturday
evening
post.
B
B
B
C
D
B
Oh
lunch
was
delicious
best
hamburgers
in
town
here
at
hamburger,
king
on
howard
avenue,
but
I
see
that
their
slots
are
gone
too.
No
wonder
juanita
the
waitress
looks
so
worried.
You
know.
Maybe
this
senator
keith
offer
has
one
thing
right:
slots
shouldn't
be
in
every
little
business
on
every
little
corner.
Well,
I
know
my
old
man
be
furious
to
hear
me
say
it,
but
I
understand
why
they're
so
concerned
about
these
young
airmen
at
keisler
getting
their
paychecks
on
friday
afternoon
and
gambling
it
all
away
by
monday
morning.