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bs bop \ b7C Frolics Club \. CG, 92~677 HDS: pmm/BI K hoodlum hangout, This hotel was formerly owned by the AL CAPONE syndicate and was inhabited by gamblers, race track people. Lieutenant @§MBB advised that ROBERT ANSANT. and JOSEPH AIUPPA were-operating the Towne Hotel-‘in partnership. © advised that the Towne Hotel, 23rd and osc Cicero, was owned by JOSEPH AIUPPA, also known as JOEY — O'BRIEN, and perhaps other hoodlums on the West. Side.of. Chicago, The hotel was rumored to be a meeting place for ganblers with Chicago or other origins. / . The. "Chicago Daily.News" dated July 3 1950,. ba bID exile advised on March 12, 1958, that at that time . “yefleéted that JOEY AIUPPA, who likes to be Known as JOEY ‘Club patronized by. approximately ‘100° patrons “each<day.. During O'BRIEN, operates handbooks at 4036, 4811 and 4818 Cermak. - Road, Cicero, Illinoie. This article reflected that AIUPPA's big spot was the 4811 Club (Frolics Club), 4811 Cermak Road, with the others being used as pneak" spots when the heat was ; Turf Club ar the Turf Club, 4833 West Cermak Road, Cicero, was being run: by JOEY O'BRIEN, which is’an alias of JOSEPH AIUPPA, and BOBBY TAYLOR, At that time a handbook, was" in operation at the “Tort the evening hours and on week ends, there were ‘approximately: five card gamea,..two dice tables, and’a rovlette*wheel*im . operation... This activity was carri on in’ a room" between. the-Turf Club and the adjoining Towne Hotel... Although JOEY O'BRIEN appeared to/actually run the turf Club; he ‘was of the opinion someond else probably was the real owner. He