#dutch schultz

[kemetic-dreams]

Known as the "Numbers Queen" of Harlem, Stephanie St. Clair built an enormously successful gambling empire in the 1920s. Fiercely protective of her domain, the African racketeer faced off against any gangsters who tried to take control of her numbers game.

When a German-Jewish mobster named Dutch Schultz tried to invade her territory, St. Clair ordered her men to destroy businesses associated with him. Though Schultz sent one of his men to intimidate her, St. Clair simply pushed him into a closet, locked the door, and told her bodyguards to "take care of him."

Though St. Clair had no hand in Schultz's eventual assassination, she crowed over his demise, even sending him a deathbed telegram that read: "As ye sow, so shall you reap."

Discover the shocking story of Stephanie St. Clair: Meet Stephanie St. Clair, The 'Numbers Queen' Who Built A Gambling Empire In 1920s Harlem

#numbers queen #stephanie st. clair #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #brownskin #africans #afrakans #brown skin #harlem #gangsters #dutch schultz

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jack "Legs" Diamond, center, and his attorneys leaving Federal Court on August 8, 1931, after his conviction for owning an unlicensed still and conspiring to violate Prohibition law. The jury deliberated slightly more than two hours before returning its verdict. Under the terms of law, Diamond was subject to a maximum sentence of four years in federal prison and a combined fine of $11,000 (about $214,000 in today’s dollars). While waiting for his lawyers to argue before the appeals court, he was shot and killed, possibly on the orders of his nemesis, Dutch Schultz.

Photo: AP via the Denver Post

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1930s #gangsters #Legs Diamond #courthouse #Prohibition #bootleggers #Dutch Schultz #August 8 #Aug. 8

[markloveshistory]

Chophouse Massacre - Dewey Lives!

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#1935 #Chophouse Massacre #Dutch Schultz #Harry Truman #History #Mafia #mark loves history #October 23 #president #this date in history #This Day in History #Thomas Dewey #today in history

[thehistorybuffgangsters]

Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz

#Bugsy Siegel #Dutch Schultz

[soberscientistlife]

Known as the "Numbers Queen" of Harlem, Stephanie St. Clair built an enormously successful gambling empire in the 1920s. Fiercely protective of her domain, the Black racketeer faced off against any gangsters who tried to take control of her business.⁠ ⁠ When a German-Jewish mobster named Dutch Schultz tried to invade her territory, St. Clair ordered her men to destroy businesses associated with him. Though Schultz sent one of his men to intimidate her, St. Clair simply pushed him into a closet, locked the door, and told her bodyguards to "take care of him." Though St. Clair had no hand in Schultz's eventual assassination, she crowed over his demise, even sending him a deathbed telegram that read: "As ye sow, so shall you reap."⁠

Black History Month Day 22

#black history month #black history facts #blackhistory

[dodger-chan]

From your writing (though possibly influenced from talking to you) you clearly put a lot of care into your words 💕

also from working on our bliss like this-verse together you have a huge interest in & knowledge of the 1920’s in New York and the fashion/lingo of that era which is super impressive

Well, I hope it comes from the quality of writing and not just how long it takes me to finish anything. I do care a lot about choosing the right word both for effectively conveying an idea and for fitting with the style of the pov character. It can be a problem with plot heavier fics as I have to constantly remind myself to just say what happened, at least for the first draft.

As for A Bliss Like This and general knowledge of 20s New York.... Okay, so kid me had the basic kid interests: construction equipment, sharks, toy cars, dinosaurs. But also organized crime. I'm not sure how that interest was sparked, but I read everything even remotely age appropriate about organized crime, and since I was a kid most of that was about prohibition and the twenties. As for why New York and not, say Chicago and Capone, I read in a book about Dutch Schultz and Meyer Lansky having their gangs bust up Nazi meetings and I've always loved bad people doing good things. So basically I did the old school version of a wikiwalk over the course of more than thirty years and ended up learning a lot about 20s New York.

Have you made an assumption about me based on my writing? I'd love to hear it.

#ask game

[curly-cottage-girl]

today I learned that my something-great grandmother sold bathtub gin to Dutch Schultz during prohibition, and that the Irish cops would protect her sons along the way when they took the subway to sell the gin to the black nightclubs and bars in Harlem

#I knew she sold bathtub gin #and that her parish priest was basically like. well ya gotta support your family somehow 👍 #lol #but I didn’t know she sold it directly to a big mobster lol #interesting to me that she sold to a German and not Irish (since they were Irish) #I guess thats just how it shook out

[thanatika]

thank you @fancifulplaguerat for tagging me!

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people.

Dreams — Fleetwood Mac

Bullfighter Jacket — Miniature Tigers

A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left — Andrew Bird

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (This Is Insane) — William S. Burroughs

Housebroken — The Hotelier

Why Am I Always Right? — Nightmare Of You

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood — Elvis Costello

Well Did You Evah! — Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop

Let Me Down Easy — Gang of Youths

Been Caught Stealing — Jane's Addiction

and now i have no idea who to tag but this was fun :3

#i don't really have a single playlist i like a lot i have everything very organized into different lists #so i ended up just hitting shuffle on my spotify likes which... goes back to like 2016 so LOL

[ceadgearst]

along ramble of the flow

I feel like Dutch Schultz rambling on his deathbed

But last time I checked I’m not there yet

But I suppose my brain is one the same plain

Because I’ll write a million lines all the same but different

Nothing consistent

You can rely on that from me in an instant

Admissions of my own welts

When I cry and weep under my pelts

Until the snow melts

But I mix between depressive and expressive

It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so excessive

Successive qualities of mine

I can’t tell the time

My mental illness claims it fine

Sometimes I wish I could rewind

because in the past I feel my time is not my own

Inside this dumbass dome is expected chrome:

Find silver

A message to deliver but he went to the pawn shop

Shit

I’m at my wits end

And when I phone a friend they say “what now this time?”

Nevermind I’m fine

that you for being kind

and that you did remind

why why why I don’t feel comfortable

Or totally capable of being mentally stable

I feel sometimes like I’m trying to keep up a fable

That I can do things when actually I’m unable

Don’t call me disabled

I just don’t understand things that aren’t labeled

What does society expect of me?

I’m actually asking

Because it seems everyone just knows in passing

Outclassing my peers with the amount of beers

Dear to my heart

my tobacco kickstart

this is art I suppose but who the fuck knows?

When I look back it looks like a nativity carved in a severed nose

Art made in the worst possible way

Beautiful as it is but from a horrible place

and space in time

Do you feel the pain in the rhymes

The crimes without names but all the same

Waning on the sane like rain on Venus

Stars in the sky like the space in between us

Far in the why

I understand that I try

for someone for whom I would die

But at the same reason i cry

Because I do so much but i am limited by the design that isn’t mine

The world the way it spins isn’t divine

When the rich men drain it to fill up their wine

I just want what’s mine but I only say it as a whine

Dine and dash because I have no cash

I fill the grave up with ash I won’t last long I don’t think that I am strong like what I smoke out of my bong

I feel like there is something wrong

With the way I hold my tongs sing my songs

There is something long inside me that needs to breathe and be freed before it destroys me completely

That’s exactly the reason I need trauma therapy

Are you there for me?

Through it all

Because sometimes I feel like I stare at a wall

And look for faces in the spaces in the bricks

I throw my gum and it sticks in the dip

A deep exhale of the smoke I rip

Rip

#poetry #original poem #poem

[theoscarsproject]

The Cotton Club (1984). Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.

Man, but Francis Ford Coppola knows how to direct a musical. The plot of this one's a bit all over the place, but the sequences where he throws story to the wind and leans into the energy of performance and the pace of the music are some straight up movie magic. Also I kind of wish the entire movie had been about Gregory Hines and Lonette McKee's characters. 7/10.

#the cotton club #1984 #Oscars 57 #Nom: Art Direction #Nom: Editing #Francis Ford Coppola #william kennedy #mario puzo #richard gere #gregory hines #Lonette McKee #diane lane #Nicolas Cage #Laurence Fishburne #1920s #america #american #drama #gangster #7/10

[grad604-melody-tan]

Detail of “Jet Lag” (2022) Do Ho Suh, courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London

 Australian artist Tanya Schultz works as Pip & Pop to create immersive installations and artworks from an eclectic range of materials including sugar, glitter, candy, plastic flowers, everyday craft materials and all sorts of objects she finds on her travels.

Her practice embodies both independent and collaborative processes across varying disciplines including installation, painting, wall-works and sculpture.

Often ephemeral, her meticulously constructed and highly detailed works embrace notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure. She is fascinated with ideas of paradise and wish-fulfillment described in folk tales, mythologies and cinema. 

Pip & Pop began as a collaboration with fellow artist Nicole Andrijevic in 2007. After four years Nicole left the partnership to pursue a different career. Tanya now works solo and with other friends and artists creating projects in many parts of the world.

Tanya has exhibited her work in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, the UAE and the UK. 

Artist : JAN KALÁB

Artist : ESER G��NDÜZ

Naoshima, Japan | Pumpkin, Yayoi Kusama

 Naoshima, Japan | Pumpkin, Yayoi Kusama

Balloon Dog,Jeff Koons

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman‘s Rubber Duck 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park

Bertrand Lavier's fountain

Sydney University Graffiti Tunnel

Jerkface 🚬 Artist NYC IG: incarceratedjerkfaces

Public Art - Sky Mirror Anish Kapoor

Massive mural "Red Brick Building" on Shanghai Street by Italian artist Pixelpancho 

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lottie Coll, the wife of slain gangster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, breaks down in tears on the shoulder of her lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, in Brooklyn, February 8, 1932. Originally a member of Dutch Schultz's gang, he later broke away and the two became vicious enemies. (At one point, Schultz walked into a Bronx police station and offered "a house in Westchester" to whoever killed Coll.) But Coll's killer was actually Owney Madden, boss of the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #gangland killing #Vincent Coll #Mad Dog Coll #Feb. 8 #8 Feb. #criminal gangs #Owney Madden #crime #vintage Brooklyn #gangsters

[the-sparrows-pen]

Most People Know There’s More Than Three Starbucks Cup Sizes-Touch Some Grass

A current Starbucks barista talks for a long time because they read an article that was just... so wrong in every way.

If you’re judging someone by their Starbucks order, or even more concerning, the size of their drink, I genuinely think you need to go outside and touch some grass. If someone wants to drink 20 ounces of 2% milk and some half decent espresso, enough sugar to wake the dead before 7 in the morning, by all means go ahead, but you wouldn’t catch me dead drinking anything larger than a grande. Regardless, Starbucks sizes are nowhere near confusing if you just take a second to look at them. 

Sure, Starbucks operates by its own size parameters, and no you won’t find a small, medium or large on any of the menu boards at your local Starbucks. Any half-decent barista will gladly take you saying any of those three sizes instead of whatever nonsense you decide to spew instead. The sizing isn’t meant to complicate anything, it’s just meant to add to the experience.

In addition to your less than average size names, the sizes also do impact your caffeine dosage, varying between hot and cold drinks. Which honestly, is better than expecting the same amount of caffeine in both an 8oz Short and a 30oz Trenta cup…

You really don’t need a map to ‘navigate’ this menu, just simple reading comprehension or the ability to listen when you ask questions to your barista. 

Why are Starbucks sizes different?

The cup and drink sizes at Starbucks aren’t actually that much different from other popular or well-known coffee locations. McDonald’s Small (12oz), Medium (16oz) and Large (22oz) McCafe drinks are very similar in ounces to Starbucks Tall (12oz), Grande (16oz) and Venti (20oz Hot/26oz Iced) sizes. Also for comparison would be Dutch Bros (12/16/20), Tim Horton's (10/14/20), and Dunkin’ Donuts (10/14/20). 

When Howard Schultz founded Starbucks, he did it in order to bring the romance of coffee to the USA from Italy. He saw how Italian coffee bars put so much love and life into the art of coffee making, and he wanted to emulate that in the US. 

He wanted to move away from the American view of casual coffee and wanted to make every cup of coffee an experience. A new way of living and loving coffee. He wanted to give the cup sizes different names in order to help curate that idea of a new way of experiencing coffee. 

Schultz wanted to bring more of the Italian love of coffee into his coffee company, which is what moved him to use some Italian as the alternative phrasing to aid in his new coffee experience. 

Anyone with access to the internet can clearly find out that “grande” doesn’t mean “medium” and “venti” clearly doesn’t mean “large”. In fact, a simple translation shows that grande means large. Before the early 90’s, Starbucks didn’t actually have the “Venti” sizing, the only options for sizes were Short (8oz), Tall (12oz) and Grande (16oz). This is a much clearer naming convention and it’s very easy for someone unaccustomed to Starbucks’ size names to figure out which one is which. 

In the early 90’s, however, with the rise of “Supersizing” and larger and larger portions, Starbucks followed suit and added the Venti size to their roster, temporarily eliminating the Short size. The Venti size was named as such since the drink contains 20 ounces of liquid- Venti, translating to 20 in Italian. In doing so, the company shifted all the sizes so that Tall now meant Small, Grande is a Medium and Venti the Large. 

Starbucks Sizes

Some Starbucks locations offer up to six different cup sizes, but not all!

The six sizes, from smallest to largest, are:

Demi (3oz)

Short (8oz)

Tall (12oz)

Grande (16oz)

Venti (20/26oz)

Trenta (30oz)

Demi, 3 ounces

If you’ve never heard of the demi size at Starbucks, don’t feel too ashamed, most baristas likely don’t know it exists either. Most stores aren’t even capable of serving this size with a lid available to you. 

A “demi cup” is likely going to be referred to by your local barista as a “sample cup” as that’s what most stores are trained to use the cup for. Samples and Pup Cups are the most common use of the 3 ounce paper cups at Starbucks. Espresso con panna (espresso with a shot of whipped cream) and other small espresso drinks will more often than not, be served in the 8 ounce tall cups.

Short, 8 ounces

Only available in a paper cup for hot drinks, the 8 ounce short is the smallest size available for hot coffees and lattes, they come with one shot of espresso and two pumps of your syrup flavor of choice. These cups are usually served “double cupped” as the cardboard sleeves are too large to fit around them.

Tall, 12 ounces

The tall size at Starbucks is available as a paper hot cup or a plastic cold cup, this is the smallest size any cold drinks are available in. Your standard latte will come with one shot of espresso and three pumps of the syrup or sauce of your choice. 

Grande, 16 ounces

Also available as hot or iced, the 16 ounce grande size is considered the default for all drinks when they’re initially being rung in by your local barista, and it’s also usually the only size depicted on the menu boards for pricing and calories. A standard grande latte will come with two shots of espresso and four pumps of the syrup or sauce of your choice. The grande size is also the largest size available for Starbucks Nitro Cold Brew. 

Venti, 20 ounces (hot) / 26 ounces (cold)

The venti cups are the only ones that hold a different amount of ounces depending on if you want your drink hot or cold. The hot cup holds 20 ounces and a standard hot venti latte will come with two espresso shots (like a grande) and five pumps of the syrup or sauce of your choice. A venti iced cup, however, holds 24 to 26 ounces (depending on location, although the 26 ounce is more standard), and will get three shots of espresso and six pumps of syrup or sauce in a latte. 

The most common explanation for the difference between the hot and cold venti cups seems to be that the plastic cold cups are bigger so that they can hold ice. If this were the case, then tall and grande cold cups should be a few ounces larger than their hot cup counterparts, but that just isn’t the case.

Trenta, 30 ounces

Finally, we’ve reached the other end of the cup spectrum. Where short cups are only available as the smallest hot cup size, trenta cups are only available as the largest cold cups. And with that, they’re only available for certain drinks off the menu. You can get any of your __- cream cold brews in the trenta size, as well as any refresher or iced tea, you can even get normal iced cold brew or iced coffee in the trenta size, but you cannot order a latte or frappuccino in a trenta cup. 

As far as the company has stated, the reason behind not allowing lattes to be ordered in the trenta size boils down to the fact that there would “simply be too many calories to serve a drink like that in good conscience”. 

#journalism #ethan sparrow #starbucks #starbucks writing #original writing #article #i wrote this because i saw an article about how starbucks 'secretly' has six cup sizes and not just three and i got upset #so this is kind of my hate article response

[littlegermanboy]

Brian Eno on Dutch television program TopPop, April 19, 1974. Photographed by Barry Schultz.

#brian eno #eno #1970s #glam rock #art rock

[american-prohibition]

Dutch Schultz

Dutch Schultz, Dutch was yet another gangster during prohibition, prohibition was constantly filled with violence and crime, and Dutch filled that role perfectly. Dutch got involved in bootlegging alcohol in the 1920s, he also became associated with Lucky Luciano and other gangsters. Dutch would buy multiple illegal saloons and built a beer selling business out of New York. Dutch was so uptight he once kidnaped and tortured a man who refused to buy his booze. Dutch clashed with dozens of rival gangsters and syndicates, individuals such as Arnold Rothstein, Vincent Coll, and Legs Diamond. Dutch was growing his enterprise being involved in illegal gambling and profitable violent crimes. His gang operated slot machines in casinos and ran a lottery. With all this Dutch started to attract the attention of authorities and was indicted on tax charges in 1933, similar to Al Capone. Dutch went on the run and hid until 1935. The feds never catch up to Dutch, on October 23, 1935, Dutch and four of his men were gunned down at a restraint in Newark, New Jersey.

[ageofxail]

Some Daniel King traits I enjoy a lot and am always eager to explore/plot around:

He is scared of dogs. Specifically, hounds and other baying dogs. Weirdly enough, huskies tend to be OK by him. He liked Balto.  He is subject to a magically-enacted contract in which any order given to him from a member of Congress, be they of the House or the Senate, he must follow. This applies to former Senators and Representatives, as well, unless they were forcibly removed from office. Daniel was a loyalist in the American Revolution. He does not regret this stance. He’s had children before - three of them. Two were mortal, one went on to become Deseret/Utah/The American Southwest. He’s been married to an immortal -- Monaco, in 1953. This ended in divorce and is the reason Daniel is extremely reluctant to be involved in romantic situations with a woman. Public Speaking is exhausting. Yes, he is very good at it, but even a short speech will force him to need a nap, a snack, and two days of recovery time. Once he filibustered for a straight 37 hours and proceeded to not be seen in public for a month afterwards. He was a member of Dutch Schultz’s gang, running speakeasies across New York City! His bones are full of cyanide. He has multiple degrees - Bachelors in Nutrition, Biology, Ecology. Masters in Ecology, Economics, and Liberal Arts. Doctorate in Medicine and Dental Medicine. He refuses to be referred to as anything but “Mr. King” as he feels his medical degrees are out of date and thus should not be considered a doctor anymore. Daniel can and does use Magic. A lot. Its primarily subconciously, but he avoids purposefully employing it as explicit usage of magic has literally and figuratively burned him in the past. Lad’s got trauma.

#age of rail ;; daniel king