Post #727478 by tikiskip on Sat, Sep 13, 2014 12:36 PM

Well the mob question was kind of a joke really.
I ask everybody I meet who is from Youngstown Ohio if they were in the mob as
a joke, the fact is out of many people asked I have only found one who did not have a story
about someone they knew from Youngstown that was Mob related.
Youngstown is was very well known for having lots o mob types that is just a fact.
So It's not a stretch, and Mitch was in the coal and lime biz plus rubbed elbows with political
type folks and his brother is/was the head of a union.

So mob ties would be out of the question in light of all this.

The Kahiki story is a great one, with or without the mob.

In 1963, The Saturday Evening Post dubbed the area "Crimetown U.S.A.," noting: "Officials hobnob openly with criminals. Arrests of racketeers are rare, convictions rarer still and tough sentences almost unheard of."
http://youngstownpride.blogspot.com/2004/12/city-that-fell-in-love-with-mob.html

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2014-09-13 12:47 ]