25 Things Inside the Old Italian Social Club (Nobody Remembers)

Forty-eight white balls out of fifty. That's how many yes votes a man needed to get into one Brooklyn club. Your grandfather passed a vote like that and paid his dues every month, and all you ever saw him get for it was a chair, a deck of cards and a little cup of coffee. This is a countdown of twenty-five things inside Italian American clubs, lodges and mutual aid societies, each one tied to a real club and to where it came from in Italy: the knock on the card table, the Members Only sign and Italy's tessera, the banner with two shaking hands, the badge with a funeral side, the society doctor, the six-dollar sick check, and a twelve-crypt vault in Galveston. Number one is what the dues really bought, and why almost nobody remembers it. If your father or grandfather belonged to one of these clubs, subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/@MulberryStreetMemo?sub_confirmation=1 Covered: the card table, the coffee bar, Italian football by satellite, Members Only, the town on the sign, the saint from home, the dues book, the rulebook, minutes in Italian, the dance floor, the kids' Christmas party, the ladies' societies, the band, the feast committee, the ballot box, the banner, the two-sided badge, the charter, the Sons of Italy, the funeral roll call, the doctor, the sick check, the widow's money, the burial vault, and Mutuo Soccorso.