Jimmy Kelly's, New York 1930s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Courtesy The Culinary Institute of

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people came here throughout The Blitz to dance waltzes or the jitterbug and to forget about the rigours of rationing and blackouts

Jimmy Kelly's, New York 1930s Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Courtesy The Culinary Institute ofGiovannni Di Salvio was born in a tenement on New Yorks Lower East side to a poverty stricken Italian immigrant family. He sold newspapers on the street as a child and at 14, he turned to professional fighting, changing his name to Jimmy Kelly to fit in with the Irish controlled boxing world of turn of the century New York. When that career failed, he got a job at the Pelham Caf in Chinatown in 1906 alongside the clubs singing waiter Irving Berlin.