Talk:Joe Gallo

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Has it been verified that Gallo is related, by blood, to both Mike DiBiase and Ted DiBiase? Ted is the adopted stepson of Mike, so it's unlikely that they had a common relative by coincidence, and I'd never heard any other source suggesting that they were related by blood. (FUMBIE) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.190.149 (talk) 19:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

women made fabric?
Fabric is nearly always machine made nowadays. Did they cut it? Make suits? Somebody needs to fact check this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eperotao (talk • contribs) 05:04, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

No citation to birth place ; Not appropriate to write the restaurant under death place in caption
I revised the article for two reasons. One, there's no citation for where he was born. Secondly, there's no citation for where he died (the Clam house is what had been written). Even if he had died at that place though, it wouldn't be appropriate to write the new of the restaurant as the place of death in the caption. Think about it. How often do you see that? Please have citation to stuff like birth and death though. It'd be more reputable to name the place in which he died (which is why I replaced it with Manhattan). TomNyj0127 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:25, 5 September 2009 (UTC).

It's also not appriorate to write that his son is alive as of 2007 because that statement would gradually become outdated. There'd be no way of knowing if he died since there was even no citation to his son's name, birth place or any of that. And if all that were true, there's no guarantee it'd be updating in the article. TomNyj0127 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:28, 5 September 2009 (UTC).

Picture
Can we get a picture of him? Portillo (talk) 14:21, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

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Crazy joe gallo
My 85 year old grandmother has few times recited a story about an encounter she had with Joey Gallo. She and he were 17, and tells a story of her frequenting a small bar in red hook about a young man whom approached her with interest to take her out, a date if you will. Unbeknownst to her, the handsome young man showing so much interest was the one and only Joey Gallo before the “crazy”! She spoke about how he charmed her phone number onto a green piece of paper. They spent time talking for a while before he would leave. As soon as he left the bar her two friends immediately said to her “are you crazy, do you know who that was, who you just gave your phone number to”? She was clueless, yet it was obvious by 17 his reputation was already building in Brooklyn as a bad boy gangster. Her friend described him as “the gangster type”. She said a few days later he called her and when she picked the phone up and said “hello” joe answered “hi can I speak to Cathy”, without hesitation and premeditated she replied “you have the wrong number “ and hung up. A call she had been anticipating; ever since her friends alarmed her knowing it was gonna come, she couldn’t wait for the call only to nip this in the bud. She could now breathe a sigh of relief. 3 weeks later while she sat with friends at the same bar in red hook she frequented,to her surprise here walks up Joe “not yet crazy” Gallo; he slams a twenty dollar bill down in front of her on the bar and rhetorically asks “is this not your phone number “ and turns and walks toward the exit politely never seeking an explanation. Perhaps he only intended to make her aware he had the right number and to show her that a gangster could also be a gentleman. He was aware of his reputation and showed the upmost respect with her while confronting her only entering the establishment to return back her phone number. What I got out of it was he was a descent, polite, and generous soul for a crook and aspiring criminal. He politely confronted her, returned her phone number and payed for some drinks at the same time leaving the 20 dollar bill behind that she originally wrote her phone number on. True gentleman I say. She told this story over the years never revealing until recently who the young man was. It was a memory that stuck with her because the reputation Joe Gallo held from a young teen throughout his life; the innocence about her couldn’t forget the time she gave her real number to a gangster unknowingly. She did not give her phone number out to just anyone ever. He stuck out with his charm and well mannered first impression. Looking back on how he reacted to this rejection, he couldn’t have been any more of a gentleman about it, being that he gave her closure and peace of mind that he would not bother her again. I’d say just that small encounter with him for her was the closest she had come at least up to that point in making the aquatintance of a hood and soon to be mobster. Yet being so long ago, when his identity was revealed to us she said she never forget the name “Gallo”! She “said one of the Gallo brothers”! The Gallo Bros where talked about and well known in the Brooklyn streets for they’re criminal activities. Round the same time she had been familiar with joe was the same time in his life he had decided he wanted to be a gangster. This moment in her life was so brief some 70 years ago that she only remembered him as one of the Gallo brothers. Well being 85 and not on the online scene, never really having been. My daughter on the other hand who is currently 17 and fascinated with hearing this, on the other hand stays online and within 30 seconds has pictures of the Gallo brothers around the mid 40’s pulled up on her phone and it was then when she asked grandma to pick the brother she speaks on and she points out Crazy Joe Gallo. Also seeing a face that was forgotten over a lifetime ago yet held a place in her memory. That was the confirmation for us and trip down memory lane for her, swing his face again was the first time since 1946 brought back memory of more details of the encounter and the scene around it. Being such a minute moment in time, I’m sure it didn’t take any time for Joe to forget my grandmother, after all only a couple hours of conversation was all that he had invested. I hope I didn’t bore anyone with this story of a memory so minute in the life of a young lady in 1946. All the people Joe Gallo crossed paths with throughout his lifetime, men and women, my grandmother was never a memory he held! Respectfully he forgot her immediately purposely. He was so heavy into violent criminal activity that my grandmother as a memory would’ve been pushed off the shelf by the intense, exiting life he lived, the criminal thoughts amongst some kind of conscience one developes after they decide theyre business involves taking lives When you have murder amongst other serious crimes on your conscience I would think a simple encounter with a girl who rejected you would be least of your thoughts. It fascinates me only to think of what could’ve been had my grandmother been attracted to the bad boy type! It is April 2019 and my grandmother has been told she has 6 months left to live and so I just wanted to share a memory of hers that always stuck with her I would assume due to his bad reputation he was able to make such a strong impression also completely unaware for some 70 years that the high profile life of crime and powerful positions he would go on to hold with the costa Nostra. My 17 year old daughter read his autobiography to my grandmother really wowing her with so much info about a boy she only heard from friends to stay away from, now at 85 so many years later finally coming to understand why she subconsciously kept this memory all these years; whatever her gut feeling and friends advice told her, pushed her to make a wise decision. She in 1946 made a decision to play it safe only knowing just enough to say “not interested “ and now has knowledge of the seriousness of why her gut told her to stay away, what turned her off then was only a tiny fraction of what he really was and destined to be. He was not just a troubled boy he was dead set on the path to Climbing up the ranks into a career of crime, extortion, racketeering and much more. Dguzzi36 (talk) 17:24, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

The 17 year old girls name is Catherine Gearghty from park slope, Brooklyn NY
I love you Grandma Dguzzi36 (talk) 17:30, 7 April 2019 (UTC)