Hi
I found this site and I am really enjoying it!
I have always been interested in Newport's Sin City image. My great great grandpa was a bootlegger in Newport during prohibition. He was in a shoot-out with Red Masterson. and Dave Whitfield. I have copies of the newspaper articles about it. My Grandpa shot and killed Red Masterson's associate named Myra Mullens. Grandpa got off pleading self defense. Dave Whitfield later took the fall for the Syndicate for arson concerning fire at Pete Schmidt's Beverly Hills Country Club.
Last year I spear headed the efforts to place the historical highway marker at the site of the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire. Now I am working on a book to be published this year by Arcadia Publishing. The title is "Newport: The Sin City Years".
I am looking for photos that I can borrow and publish in the book (with credit given to the owner, of course!)
Dave Horn, I think we should become friends!!! ;>