That’s a cool story Step. The Buffalino home was just a couple of blocks away from ours. Dorrance and Lathrop or Tioga if I recall.
Very modest ranch house...
Actually B. V., Members of the nation's Italian families and body guards were there according to the Old PA Crime Commission report the following day in the Sunday paper. Genetti's opened up several ball rooms to accommodate the event. The ballroom's walls were lined with each family's security standing shoulder to shoulder.
My one brother in law sitting next to me whispered with his head down, "Jesus Step, I hope nobody breaks a balloon at the party."
A little while after Russell said to Pop "but sadly, Tony had other engagements"....and left our table, the lights in the ballrooms were dimmed and Tony Bennett strolled through the audience singing his tunes
On an off topic B.V., did you ever have lunch at the King Court Diner on N. Main, across from King's College buildings. Best greasy burgers around. The walls were covered with signed pics of celebrities, a Pope, pro ball players, etc. It was a gathering place of the W-B Police and detectives, County judges, the local FBI, bookies, Bufalino dropped in ocassionally.
My father in law wound up owning the diner by default. Long story,
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