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| - What an experience! I have always had an infatuation with the lifestyle and can never get enough of this interesting phenomenon. With the history of organized crime in this city, it has hard not to be intrigued.
Fortunately for me, I was able to attend with the help of the jobby job. My partner and I at the time were looking to set up an outing for at-risk youth and stumbled upon the newly opened Mob Museum. What better time to treat some well deserving kids of a new appealing event. So in actuality, it was more like, "...fortunately for us!"
There are several floors all creating a labyrinth of historic facts and stories behind the mafia influence coming from all over the U.S. Some of the features included interactive video's, audio, photos, relics, artifacts and other mafiana. The museum did a good job with enticing on lookers with tantalizing truths, a lot of which I did not know, and neither did a lot of the youth.
It was hard enough to keep everyone together and pushing through the vast sections being that many of the youth were deep in various parts of the museum. I especially love how the establishment is the old Post Office that provides a realistic feel of the mafia era.
If I didn't have to manage our time there, I would surely have been in there much longer that we were and eager to come back to see what has changed since my last outing. It would be nice to take my time in there as a patron instead of playing the role of a chaperon too.
Overall, I was pleased to learn that everyone else had a great time. I was skeptical on whether or not everyone would be interested in this museum and what it has to offer. Luckily, I did not have to worry about that much at all.
I can only pray that more and more venues pop up in the downtown area to purvey its illustrious history and recommend that everyone should experience the Mob Museum if you are a mafia buff or a person interested in the field. Otherwise, if this is not your cup of tea, maybe you should just stick to the slots.
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