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LITTLETON MUSEUM
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Littleton Museum 40th Anniversary.

Littleton Museum
6028 South Gallup Street
Littleton, CO 80120
Ph: 303-795-3950
Fax: 303-730-9818
Hours: Tu-F 8am-5pm;
Sat 10am-5pm;
Sun 1-5pm;
Closed Mondays & holidays
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First Thursday Lecture

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Best - selling author Dick Kreck captures the complexity of Denver's Smaldone crime syndicate. Beginning in the 1920s, and flourishing well into the late tthe late twentieth century, the Smaldone family perpetuated a shadowy underworld.

Date:  11/5/2009
Time:  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm*
*Regular museum hours are Tues.-Fri. 8 am-5 pm; Sat., 10 am-5 pm; Sun. 1-5 pm; closed Mondays and holidays.
Location:  Friends' Lecture Hall - Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St.
Contact:  303-795-3950
Cost:  Tickets on sale 10/1/2009 $5 public; $4 FOLM members
 Description:  "Smaldone" by Dick Kreck Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished well into the late twentieth century. Connected to such notorious crime figures as Al Capone and Carlos Marcello, as well as to presidents and other politicians, charismatic Clyde Smaldone was the crime family’s leader from the Prohibition era to the rise of gambling to the family’s waning days. Uncovering the good and the bad, best-selling author Dick Kreck captures the complexity of Clyde, brother Checkers, and their crew, who perpetuated a shadowy underworld but exhibited great generosity and commitment to their community, offering food, money, and college funds to struggling families. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Kreck reveals the true sense of what it meant to be a Smaldone, and the mix of love and dysfunction that is part of every American family.