Boston: Gangland History Walking Tour with Cannoli
ID: GYG1537506-2345415
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Pays: États-Unis
Durée du projet:
02:00 horaires
Description
Explore Boston's gangland history on a guided walking tour. Learn about the mafia, Irish Mob, and Jewish bookmakers, and try a cannoli from a North End bakery.
Begin your tour at Boston's North Station, where the Irish Winter Hill gang ran its base of operations from the Lancaster St Garage. Stroll over to the Italian North End to see Gerry Angiulo's base of racketeering, also known as "The Doghouse."
Make a few more North End stops and have a chance to try North End famous bakeries for a cannoli. Then, stroll over to the IRA fundraising headquarters and visit the pub where Patrick Nee, a Whitey Bulger associate, was arrested for selling 7,000 lbs of explosives to the IRA.
Learn about the incestuous relationships between the mob factions and gangland murders to control Boston's underworld and lucrative rackets, which were eventually taken over by James "Whitey" Bulger and his henchmen with help from the FBI.
Hear how the "dirty" FBI agent John Connelly helped Whitey Bulger take over the rackets in Boston and what those rackets were.
Faits saillants
- Discover Boston's underworld on a guided walking tour
- Learn about the city's mafia, Irish Mob, and Jewish bookmakers
- Hear about the FBI's involvement in the city's gangland history
- Visit the IRA fundraising headquarters and a famous pub
- Try a cannoli from a North End bakery
Langues
INFORMATION IMPORTANTE
Tour involves walking
Tour covers historical crime-related topics
Causway Tavern across from North Station. Guide will send photo
INCLUS
- Visit Whitey Bulger's headquarters in Boston's North Station: TheLancaster St Garage
- Visit to Italian North End to see Gerry Angiulo's base of racketeering. Learn how book making, loan sharking & money laundering were intertwined.
- Visit to IRA fundraising headquarters
- where Patrick Nee was arrested for smuggling arms to the IRA.
- Discussion on Boston's gangland history and the FBI's involvement in Whitey Bulgers rise "Mobland"!
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Annulations
Cette excursion peut être annulée sans frais jusqu'à : heures d'annulation avant le début du voyage. Si vous l'annulez après les heures d'annulation ou si vous ne vous présentez pas à l'excursion, le prix total de l'activité vous sera toujours facturé. Tout retard à la prise en charge ou au départ sera considéré comme un retard.
