You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.

Well, welcome all you wiretoppers back in the studio of Gangland Wire.

I'm here with our good friend from Chicago, Cam Cam Camie Lewis Robinson. Hey, Cam, how you doing? How you doing, Gary? Good to be here. Well, it's always good to have you back on the show. And folks, Cam got hold of me. I mean, is interesting that it got hold of me today because I'm behind the time. I just started watching the Deuce on HBO and I was enthralled with it. It was done by some of this David Chase and author of Pelicanos, George Pelicanos.

George Pelicanos is probably one of the better crime writers, maybe even the best crime writer in the

United States. And so they're the ones that are responsible for that

and wrote a lot of it. It's based on the mob infiltration of the Times Square porn industry. And it was

huge back in those days before they came along. And the very end of it, I don't want to spoil it for

you, but by the third year of the series of

dues, they're cleaning up Times Square, and it's all about real estate. And real estate and

owning real estate was a big part of this whole porn industry. It seems kind of funny,

but you've got to have a place to put those porn stores. Everybody didn't want to rent to you,

and it's a good place. You know, back then, like every major city, Cam, if you remember, the midtown, the core

of all big cities was just going to shit.

Yeah.

Everybody was leaving.

The businesses were closing.

There was just the government was about left in the 70s.

After the, really after the rise of 68, everybody started running for the suburbs.

And it wasn't until like the 80s and it started slowly but surely turned back around.

You could buy those buildings downtown, just dirt cheap.

I mean, you could get something that in a few years would be worth a million dollars.

You could get it for $100,000.

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