![]() ![]() They used to hang around Jackson Square a lot. Jazz and Anthony Pino (they may have even been godfathers to my friends) were taken in and later released. A few days after the robbery, the FBI and the Boston cops tore the inside of the club to pieces, but they found nothing. The Centre Club, later known as the Irish Centre Club, on the Corner of Heath and Schilller Streets, was owned by one of the guys, Jazz Maffie. Even then, it still took over seven years to wrap up the case. ![]() Later on Specs ratted the others out to the cops. They probably would have gotten away with it if some of them hadn’t short-changed Specs O’Keefe out of his share of the loot. Knowing who the perpetrators were, and then proving it, was difficult. They got over 1.2 million in cash, with over another million in checks and bonds. At that time it was the biggest heist in the world. 17, 1950, a couple of the kids’ uncles did something that flashed on the news all over the country, if not the world: the Boston Brinks Robbery. He was one of the most infamous bank robbers of the time.Īfter he was caught and did his time, he got a job selling used cars - sort of the same line of work. While my dad had a regular job working at the Navy Yard in South Boston, Toby’s dad made his own hours. ![]() One of the girls, Toby, had a father who was kind of famous by any standard. I’m sure some of you that are reading this will remember a few of the Parker Slobs. It was never meant in a derogatory way - the kids even wore the name like it was a badge of honor. The Bromley-Heath housing project gobbled up these streets along with Albert Street when it was built in the late forties and early fifties. Most of them lived on Parker Street and Bromley Park. In the section of Jamaica Plain on the Roxbury line bounded by the train tracks and Centre, Heath and Bickford Streets, lived some of my friends that had fathers and uncles that were a little left of center with the law. ![]()
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