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[QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 69577, member: 34"]
Regarding Garzone's:

There was a terrorist group in Central New York called the Elmwood Animals. Yes folks, that's right, we had homegrown terrorist right here in CNY back in the 50's-60's. My first encounter with them came at Archbold Stadium. They would use anything as an excuse to start a brawl. One tactic was to send a little kid over and start harassing bigger people, spit at you, call you names etc. If the bigger people reacted in anyway, boom the Animals would spring into action, seven or eight of them would jump in and start pounding people. If you went down to the ground they would stomp you until chased away. They were crazy mofo's led by two whack jobs named Donnie Zogg and Kevin Byrne, of the Byrne Dairy family. One time I was in line at Garzone's when all of a sudden from behind the door came a punch. It was delivered by Zogg and it nailed the kid in front of me knocking him out. When all was said and done this violent action was not for revenge, it was just done for kicks, on a dare.

In later years I remember seeing Zogg hobbled like an old man using a cane at the age of 20 or so. What a pitiful site for one who was once one of the most feared people in Syracuse.

Byrne moved down to Florida, got involved with the wrong people and was murdered by drug dealers. Before he moved south, he had a bar on Seneca Turnpike by OCC. It had been burglarized several times, so he lay in waiting above the false ceiling with shotgun in hand. Sure enough on one of those vigilant nights the perpetrator broke in and Kevin blew his head off.

Garzone's was the Animal's home bar, after that first experience I never went back.
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