Wow what a story and with newspaper articles to back em up! Makes you wonder if a marriage and name change helped her slide into obscurity...
This one wasn't that simple as it wasn't syndicated... small time crime stories rarely were back then... Somehow makes it cooler though...
Killer eyes. If they'd ever made a movie about "Mary Lou", the gal in the '59 Ronnie Hawkins song, Hot Rod Cathy would have been perfect typecasting for the part.
She just looks like a Bronx girl, right? I bet she was fun to party with when she wasn't getting you into deep ****...
Cool beans. Now, if you really want to challenge your research skills, see if you can locate a picture of her '33.
Italian woman from the Bronx! You don't get more Bad *** than that! I know I'm Italian and married to a Bad *** Italian.
Some people are born bad, hopefully she straightened out later in life. Reminds me of when I was in elementary school, we’d walk to school and the middle school bus would go by, there was red head girl who would hang her head out the bus window and call us younger kids things like you little f’ers etc. I always expected she’d run afoul of the law later in life. Thinking back now it was sort of funny.
Italian gals are hot to begin with. I dated one for a few years then split for Uncle Sam. When I came home just never went back to pick up the pieces. One night I was sittin in a bar having my usual beer with whiskey chaser & paying attention to no one in particular. Out of the blue I get knocked off of my bar stool. I looked around before getting to my feet & holy ****. There stand Judy B. We got back together & damn my back got tore up with her damn fingernails weekly. She wanted to come to Cal with me so bad she was willing to pay expenses. I had to be firm in my conviction to stay single & travel lightly. So I never saw her again & never met another like her. I did some short track roundy ,round back in Ohio & Pa . Started a hotrod club but funds for my hotrodding were limited & the boys with the big bucks were always winning. I had put a hopped up 270 jimmy in my 50 chevy convertible & made more money street racing than I did at the track. The hotrod club fell apart for lack of participants, I blew the jimmy up (valve thru the head) so decided to bunch it all up & head to where the days were sunny & the hot rod scene was growing, so moved to Cal. I did ok making a living installing lube equipment & air compressors in new car dealerships & gas stations. They were building one on every street corner. Never got back into racing or hotrods but had a 55vette & 56 bird then a 59 el camino . Nothing tradition till years later. Now I have a 34 roadster taking up most of my time & funds. for now. My best man & good friend is Italian but that is it for now. View attachment 5331383 View attachment 5331383
She kind of reminds me of Fran Drescher from The Nanny and, I would think, sounds like her, too! Give me those cigs, punk!
"pension/penchant"...(sorry, 'couldn't resist. Mom was an English teacher. Don't hate me). Cool news article! Carry On.
A P S to my blog; She had a set of Dagmars that made my caddy blush. The other picture is the chevy vert with the 270 Jimmy, nosed & decked & later set of rear fender trim from 53 chev & sent to Cal for a continental kit. Traction That car had it. Sorry to say but those boiler makers got me & I totaled both cars. Falling asleep at the wheel will can do it. The caddy was put up an old oak tree8-10' & the 50 chev took out 14 guard rails & a telephone pole I had bought a new set of tires for the chevy & they were in the trunk. A piece of 2X6 guard rail came thru the right headlight & was stuck in the firewall. Those days are gone but not forgotten so thanks for jogging my memory bank. Some day I tell ya about the time I fell asleep on my 48 Harley rode down the ditch & bought it back up on the road.
Don't know if 'small-time crime' story fits this one. $1431 would buy you a LOT of smokes & suds back in '53. A case and a carton would set you back a measly $3. Block party for 477 people. Joe
Surprised nobody mentioned the coolest NY chick Marisa Tomei, not from the Bronx but Brooklyn for sure. https://illinoiscaselaw.com/expert-witness-defined-by-marisa-tomei-from-my-cousin-vinny/
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