You're dating us Dan.
I think Tony is too young to have been a member of, say, the North Ward Dukes before they slid into obscurity. Now Paulie Walnuts, that's another story -- he meets all the criteria. Didn't he say in one episode that he hung out on 13th Street? One block up, on 14th Street, there was an overpass over the DL&W tracks where a lot of guys I knew used to hang out in the early '60s, many of them waiting for the train to nowhere. There was a candy store there as well, but the site is now a vacant lot. Tommy Peacock lived in a car across the street for a while.
I became sort of detached from that life after I went to OLV HS and then Seton Hall, but I used to visit them on occasion. I still remember Kevin Haran sitting on the steps there sipping from a bottle of wine in a paper bag.
By the way, in one earlier episode Tony does refer to a hapless guy with a speech impediment. I think I remember that character, who was part of a large and quarrelsome family living next door to the "cat ladies" across the street from me when I lived at 80 North 11th. There is a story involving him, some stolen revolver ammunition, Kevin Haran and the DL&W, but that should for the present at least, perhaps remain unwritten.
