Season 1 · Episode 29
What made the Milwaukee Mafia Different from other Mobs?
Milwaukee Mafia · Gavin Schmitt
August 31, 202117m 40s
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Show Notes
In this episode, a listener asks what makes the Milwaukee Mafia different from other mobs, such as New York and Chicago.
The answers:
- Working as city employees while controlling the garbage industry
- Prohibition wasn't as big of a boom for the Milwaukee Mafia as other mobs
- Eric gets Gavin off on a tangent about the Milwaukee Mafia and Las Vegas
- Vending machines (remember when cigarettes were sold in vending machines?)
- And some stories that Gavin has come across he has found surprising
- A bubble gun patent
- A Persian rug dealer
Links:
- Visit MilwaukeeMafia.com for more information
- Gavin's Books: https://amzn.to/3ssKOQH
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukeemafia
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