Re: [DL] new movie!

[Patrick Downs <knick_nevin@yahoo.com>]

actually, this movie takes place DURING the Tammany
Hall era, detailed under pages 35 and 36 of Back East:
The North for all you players out there
;-)
-doc

--- Derek Carmichael <dcarmichael@apple.com> wrote:
> > On 8/30/01 7:59 AM, Patrick Downs wrote the
> following:
> > http://www.countingdown.com/movies/gangsofnewyork
> > 
> > this movie takes place in the 1860s...
> > ...and it's directed by Martin Scorsese
> 
> I just caught the first half of a History Channel
> show about Gangs. The
> show's premise was when did gangs first begin and
> their "evolution".  The
> Five Points gang in New York (an Irish gang) was
> mentioned as one of the
> first.  I believe this may be about them.  Although
> the Five Points gang may
> have been after the Tammany Hall era (as the website
> put it.)


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