Key Crew Members: Tony 'Bear'
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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.
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