WillDecker

I hope the person who said he would like to write a history of the Chicken Coop does that. Would it be possible for there to be no connection to organized crime? One night back in the 70's I watched kid after kid being rented out on the street corner the Chicken Coop was on. That was also the same thing being done from the rooms above the Stonewall Inn in NYC. The manager of the Stonewall in was Ed (The Skull) Murphy the son of Vito Genovese the head of The Vito Genovese Crime Family of New York and Philadelphia. I remember reading a story about what I saw going on outside The Chicken Coop was connected to a Philadelphia Crime Organization. That would have been the Genovese Crime Family. No one did anything without them owning it. Ed (The Skull) Murphy besides being the manager of the Stonewall Inn paid for the first Pride Parades was crowned Mayor of Christopher Street, put in an Open Cadillac and led the parades. Some of this history is in A Renegade History of The United States by Thaddeus Russell. This all needs to be dug up and thoroughly researched. Be sure and watch The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese.