What is a shadow ticket? - Travel Stack Exchange

[matthew cissell]

Hi Eric,

Maybe instead of getting the term from somewhere (think "Inherent Vice")
the words just clicked. For example, I was poking around after your link
and I saw an add for First Shadow Tickets. It's actually tickets for
something called The First Shadow (from Stranger Things, apparently) but if
you just see Shadow Ticket it makes you wonder what that could be. It has
overtones of Shadow Governments and secretive things. Or is it a ticket to
see The Shadow?

Judging from the blurb, it seems like TP has been channeling my reading
list. Months ago I read about Jewish gangsters beating up Nazis and I knew
that I needed the full story. And it happened in Minneapolis.

  Brief summary for the curious - East Coast Judge Nathan Perlman was not
happy about the increasingly vocal and aggressive US Nazis (German American
Bund), but what could he do? He called Meyer Lansky and framed the problem.
Meyer responded that he and his people would do what they could, and for
free. Word got west to Dave Berman in Minneapolis; he was informed that the
Silver Shirts (mustered by William Dudley Pelley) were having a rally at
the Elk's Lodge. Dave and his boys got there early and waited. When they
heard Pelley talk about removing the "Jew bastards", the clubs came out and
the brass-knuckles were employed. (This scene in my head has elements of
Tarantino. Is TP too much of a hippie to enjoy this historical tidbit? Am I
bad if I do?) Silver Shirts went crimson quickly. Dave made a public
announcement that next time would be worse. Sadly, they had to break up two
more meetings. But only two. There were no more after that.
      (The above anecdote and information comes from *Augie's Secrets: The
Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip*. From this wonderful
book, I learned that back in the day the point spread for gambling was
the *Green
Sheet* "the Torah of bookmakers". This was operated and backed by Billy
Hecht and Leo Hirshfield. In 1947 *Collier's Magazine* referred to it as
"one of the most intricate businesses in the world." It's a book well worth
reading.)

In Solidarity
mc otis

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