Key Crew Members: Tony 'Bear' | Mike

Tony ‘The Bear’, Jimmy’s menacing right hand man who came out here to California a few years before Jimmy. Tony did not like me and my camera around at all in the beginning. Jimmy and Tony hooked up and started a West Coast crew called the Italian Battalion. They owned restaurants, strip clubs, parking lots, and other stuff I really can’t go into.

Tony was into cars, especially other people’s cars. He and Jimmy had “keys to the world”, I don’t know where they got it, but it was this huge key ring that must have had about 150 master keys that opened anything from soda machines, to any make automobile to department store doors.