Reminiscences of Tony Roberts, 2004

Biographical Note

Entertainer

Scope and Contents

Born Anthony Gennarelli in Chinatown, New York City; family: Italian, one of six children, father restaurant owner, barber; childhood: small apartment, no heat building, nostalgia for early years, living through the depression; career: entertainer, stories of life as an entertainer, volunteering for the blind and sick; reminiscences of funny Mafia names

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
• Entertainers--New York (State)--New York.
• Interviews.
• Italian Americans--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Mafia--New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Roberts, Tony, 1926-

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