Serritella, Tony

Tony Serritella grew up in the 50's on the streets of the Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago, where he and his friends remained friends forever. He graduated from grade school and high school and it was enough for him and his friends. They never concerned themselves with the future and never realized or thought it would ever come. They had the Peter Pan mentality. All were street hustlers of some kind: washing cars, delivering papers, driving a neighborhood cleaner's truck, hustling football parlay cards or working for the City. At the age of nine, Tony worked for his uncle on a newsstand in th...