OK, start the thread with your memories.
Recall being a youngster in the late '50's/early 60's and having my shopkeeper dad come home, pop open a "cold one" and tune into The Untouchables or The Honeymooners. Wow, nice memories. I know that this makes us seem like geezers to the youngsters out there but that's OK, their day will come! Anyone else care to get in on the nostalgia here?
My uncle lived in north Chicago about 4 blocks from the Clark Street garage where the infamous St. Valentine's Massacre occurred. We walked by it many times, but it was always on a Sunday that we visited with him so I never got to go inside. This was in the late 50s-early 60s when the show was popular, so it was really exciting to me.
My dad loved the show, so we watched it every week. When my Chicago uncle visited he'd always tell us stories about '20s Chicago (he was quite a historian of the period.) I miss them both.
Interestingly, I got a chance to correct my American History teacher in college some 15 years later. He said the massacre involved the "Bugs Malone gang." I was able to correct him (out of class!) in that it was the Moran Gang and told him the whole story about it as my uncle had told me. He was cool about my correcting him.