People who chose to live the gangster life during the early 20th century were cut from a rougher yet more refined cloth than the gangsters of today, and they always looked dapper no matter what they were doing.
The rackets were numerous, the risks immeasurable, but these outlaws chose to make a buck bruising, smuggling, shooting, stealing and strongarming knowing full well it might cost them their lives.
Looking back on these photos of Depression era mobsters you can see a sort of haunted look in their eyes, the only clue to their remaining humanity revealed in the one place they can't rebuild in stone.
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He looks like the Joker's kid brother trying to look tough. I doubt he even knows how to smoke that cigarette.
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Yeah, he's going to have a really sore thumb if he pulls that trigger!
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Interesting series, but the guy with the two different gloves in the first photo, he has never fired a gun in his life.
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