During the Depression, Dean delivered bootleg whiskey throughout Ohio and across the river in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. In the 1930s, Steubenville was known as ‘Little Chicago’ due in large part to its gambling houses. At a certain point a buddy of mine and I would bang the end of a coil with a hammer, I'd pull a lever and the coil went into a boxcar." When he narrowly avoided being hit by a falling bundle, Dean decided to try his hand at another profession. "They cooled as they came because there was water splashing on them. "We had big platforms half a block long hot coils of steel wire came down on them," he recalled in 1961. While in his teens, Dean worked in Ohio's steel mills bundling hot coils. This left him with a permanently split lip, crooked hands and a broken nose. He quit school in the tenth grade because, as he noted, "I thought I was smarter than the teachers." A succession of jobs followed, including a stint when he boxed in the welterweight division as ‘Kid Crochet’. Her specialties were spaghetti and meat balls, veal and peppers or sausage and peppers."ĭean attended Grant Junior High and Wells High schools and was a Boy Scout in Steubenville's troop ten. He didn't speak any English until the age of five.ĭean's childhood was filled with fond memories as he remembered during an interview with the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ in April 1961.
Anthony of Padua's Church on September 16th of that year. The family lived at 319 South Sixth Street, Steubensville, and Dean was baptized at St. His brother entered the world as Dino Paul Crocetti less than a year later on June 7, 1917. She left the convent, and she married him two weeks later." The Crocettis’ first child, Bill, was born on June 24, 1916. She met my father, and fell in love at first sight.
Dean's mom was born in Fernwood, Ohio in 1897 and met Guy while she was studying to be a nun! Dean is quoted in a 1967 ‘Look’ article as admitting, "She was in a convent. He Americanized his first name ‘Gaetano’ becoming barber ‘Guy’ Crocetti who would marry Angela Barra the following year on October 25, 1914. That life had its origin when Dean Martin's father was born in the Abruzzi region of Italy in 1894 and emigrated to the U.S.
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