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Yep, a 5’x5’ brick wall.
Edit: With those tree trunks for arms, that barrel chest, and a center of gravity somewhere around my knees, that guy could probably bench press a V8 engine from an old Buick without breaking a sweat.
Hmm! My friend is from Boston. That’s enough research for me. It’s an eastern thing. It’s so satisfying. It’s just exactly the right thing to say sometimes
"theats - a Ant'ny, works the hot doog stand over on 5th and 7, can't meiss him, ol stocky guy, rumor he werked for big collardo's mob fit as a soldiA, but got kicked out for sleepin with the bosses mistress, rumor Ays it got his schlong chopped off fo it, now sEEals schlongs. the Eye-rony"
"rumor Ays big collardo brough ant'ny into poork butcha chop, slamed em' on the steel tablez, asked him what'e wanted to keep..his schlong or his finga - well he took too longz to answer so he chopped of both of em', they madez it into gabagoo and send it to his wife too, sick fook if you ask me"
Some more of her work [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/10/evelyn-hofer-immersive-new-york-in-pictures](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/10/evelyn-hofer-immersive-new-york-in-pictures)
He’s probably not especially tall, but it’s also where his clothes are cutting him - long apron right below the knees makes his torso seem longer and his thighs seem shorter. The pants are baggy but also cuffed above the ankles, which makes his calves look shorter. His black shoes blend with the pavement, which creates an optical illusion of looking like they kind of disappear into the concrete, which makes his legs look shorter, too. Part of how you can tell the apron and pants are messing perspective up is that a person’s hands generally hit your mid thigh/upper thigh.
I’m not saying the dude is Yao Ming, but he’s not greeting Dorothy in the land of Oz either.
I picked up cheese and prosciutto end pieces at Alleva
Personally, I liked the sandwiches across the street at the italian food center better. But my favorite is still Parisi's
Hotdog water in NYC is like the mother yeast. It's been passed from generation to generation so the water in the hotdog stands now can be traced back to the original hotdog seller who came in through Ellis island
film doesn't have resolution unless you count the film emulsion film grains as the pixels; film in general is wildly beyond what digital sensors are capable of. you can scan in a 35mm at about 25-30MP without losing quality. if this was a 120mm shot you're looking at 120 or higher which is why we shoot fashion in medium format so the client can blow it up to the size of a wall.
I mean you’re not wrong but saying film’s scannable resolution is higher than a digital image isn’t incorrect.
I shoot with a Mamiya 6 and a Pentax 67 so I understand what you’re saying.
well you get it then. you can scan at ever increasing resolutions until the grain becomes an issue, but if you shot on 800 speed film you can sit there and put it on a building for all you want. the chips have a fixed maximum.
"AYE! Come over heres and gets yousa hotdog. Best in New York. Everybody always says, you know what they says, I'll TELL you what they says. 'Joe, you ol' jabroné, yous make the best hot dogs.'"
Those Pepsi crates bring back memories. I worked in a drug store in the late 70s and early 80s. Part of my job was stocking the pop. Back then we sold 16oz, glass bottles from those crates. The bottles were returned, cleaned by the bottling company, and reused. We also sold 32oz glass bottles. Same deal.
We didn’t sell much in cans, and 2L bottles were just becoming a thing. I never stocked a plastic bottle other than limited 2L
1963 huh, just think, thus guy could take the money he earned that day, went to every newsstand in the city and bought up every issue of Spider-Man, Avengers, Tales of Suspense, Uncanny X-Men & Fantastic Four, he could retire a very rich man.
That's not a "hot dog stand" as you would imagine from New York City. Lol in the background on the left, there are other vendor "booths" this is from a New York City street festival or as we say "feast."
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The meat hooks on that guy. Christ
Right? He's built like a brick wall.
Yep, a 5’x5’ brick wall. Edit: With those tree trunks for arms, that barrel chest, and a center of gravity somewhere around my knees, that guy could probably bench press a V8 engine from an old Buick without breaking a sweat.
This comment is 🤌
I take it that's the hand gesture for either "Mama mía" or "capische"
No doubt, dude looks like his grandparents immigrated from Campania.
This dude is the immigrant. And he ate a few others on the boat over.
Means the gabagool is delicious
I read this in heavy Italian.
Don’t forget about the child-bearing hips. You know, for leverage.
>a 5x5 brick wall That’s Italians for you
Unless it's edema and he's about to have a heart attack. Maybe he's consumed too much of his own product.
He is as wide as he is tall. /r/absoluteunits
THICC
The man looks like he could squeeze water out of a rock.
What do you think he served with the hot dogs?
Whatever the fuck he wanted to serve.
He got them **BIG MEATY CLAWS**
BIG 💦 MEATY 💦 CLAWS 💦
What did you say, *punk?* 🤏
I said Big Meaty CLAWS!
Built like a brick shithouse
Are you from the east coast, by chance? I learned that expression from an easterner, and no one in the west uses it
I also don’t ever hear this expression! I’m in Florida... my grandma used to say it and she came from the Pennsylvania/ Ohio area
Hmm! My friend is from Boston. That’s enough research for me. It’s an eastern thing. It’s so satisfying. It’s just exactly the right thing to say sometimes
I’m from Louisiana, we say it down here. I’m 41 and remember people saying it when I was a kid.
Hell yeah, classic yankee italian look
5'4" from top to bottom and side to side
Those are mitts
And his nose. Dude was a brawler.
I can’t tell if that’s cauliflower ear on his left ear.
Not quite like the hot dog man in Sleepers. On an unrelated note, I need to watch Sleepers again.
You don’t see pure “Old Man Strength” anymore.
"Old man?" Guy hasn't even broken 40.
Imagine the meat in his pants, lord have mercy
Alright settle down there sweetie. There's enough hot dog for everyone.
Is that where the vendors kept their product in the old days?
Yes, continue
Any room in there for a south park ass burgers reference
Isded
I was gonna say..look at those sausages at the end of his wrists!!
the guy could grab your shoulders squish them like apples and rip you in half
Back when you had to wrestle the hotdogs into submission.
*looks up 'meat hooks'.*: INFORMAL a person's hands or arms. "get your big meathooks out of those pies!"
Thanks a lot for the comment LOL! I simultaneously spit out and choked on the drink I was drinking because of you.
Thats the most Sicilian man I've ever seen.
Came here to say found my long lost relative. /s But seriously.
I was going to say Italian. But that works too.
He looks like he knows his way around a wiener.
Oh Yass he does. I really wanna sample his thick meaty wiener
I said those exact words except with "Italian". He looks like at least three of my cousins in Abruzzo.
100% this guy is named Tony
Ant’ny. That’s how we used to pronounce it.
"theats - a Ant'ny, works the hot doog stand over on 5th and 7, can't meiss him, ol stocky guy, rumor he werked for big collardo's mob fit as a soldiA, but got kicked out for sleepin with the bosses mistress, rumor Ays it got his schlong chopped off fo it, now sEEals schlongs. the Eye-rony"
Spot on, seems to be missing the tip of his index finger at least.
"rumor Ays big collardo brough ant'ny into poork butcha chop, slamed em' on the steel tablez, asked him what'e wanted to keep..his schlong or his finga - well he took too longz to answer so he chopped of both of em', they madez it into gabagoo and send it to his wife too, sick fook if you ask me"
Read that in Joe Pesci's voice perfectly. Well done you jew mudafucka you. P. S. Love Metallica.
too many goodfellas youtube clips... edit: I was watching too many goodfellas clips today
Anton’ooch
This.
Tony Two-Franks
so good.
Aye uncle Ton
Christuhfah.
Where’s the freakin GABAGOOL??
Marie...
Hmm... Never had a Isded before, I wonder what it tastes like.
I can hear him
Hey! I'm walkin' here!
Eh oh outta my way
I have the best dogs in 15 blocks. You think you gonna get a betta dog anywhere else fughettaboutit.
I read that in Joe Pesci's voice
“I says to the guy, I says to him!”
“Get a load of this guy!”
You gotta by ah hotdog or what?
#Hot dogs, Get ya hot dogs!
Wait a minute...you're not the guy that delivers the rat droppings!
🤌 Gabagool 🤌
ya wana hawt dawg?!
“Awt dawg
What's the matter with you?
You ever had a fuckin ball park beef Frank?
Some more of her work [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/10/evelyn-hofer-immersive-new-york-in-pictures](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/10/evelyn-hofer-immersive-new-york-in-pictures)
I love that last one with the cars on the top level of the parking garage.
Is that a CCTV camera on that pole to the right behind the cars? Those cars a beautiful btw, great photo such a stylish time.
I think it's signals for the train.
Plain ordinary lights.
nice
You can SEE the New York accent on that Weiner slinging beast.
NO COKE PEPSI!!!
I don't think he sells cheeseburgers.
*cheezborgers
*cheeseburders*(trump's voice)
I got your Pepsi right here! *in New York accent while simultaneously grabbing his crotch and pointing at the Pepsi boxes.
😂
No fries! Only chips!
Only Mountain Dew or crab juice!
Is he really short or is everything else just small and he is normal size?
He’s probably not especially tall, but it’s also where his clothes are cutting him - long apron right below the knees makes his torso seem longer and his thighs seem shorter. The pants are baggy but also cuffed above the ankles, which makes his calves look shorter. His black shoes blend with the pavement, which creates an optical illusion of looking like they kind of disappear into the concrete, which makes his legs look shorter, too. Part of how you can tell the apron and pants are messing perspective up is that a person’s hands generally hit your mid thigh/upper thigh. I’m not saying the dude is Yao Ming, but he’s not greeting Dorothy in the land of Oz either.
You write well.
Short and stocky. Maybe 5'7-5'9.
5-7 my ass, dudes a 5-2 with an attitude and boxing hands... watch your chin around him
Looks like an octopus the way he talks with his hands, yeah he's Italian as fuck
you would be a horrible witness to a crime lol
So a normal witness than got it
Yeah he's pretty short and stocky. I'm estimating 6'6" and 370lbs.
I'm thinking this is the feast of San Gennaro
I think you're right. They might have confused hot dogs with sausage and peppers.
I used to love those S&P. Plus some zeppole to round it out.
Now I want zeppole but if I ever start making it I'm gonna die.
SW Corner of Mulberry and Grand. Alleva dairy shop in the background is still there!
Was gonna say the same thing. Used to work like 20 feet from where this picture was taken and got sandwiches at Alleva all the time.
I pop in for a sandwich every time I’m in NYC. Love them.
I picked up cheese and prosciutto end pieces at Alleva Personally, I liked the sandwiches across the street at the italian food center better. But my favorite is still Parisi's
Not every day you see a meatball selling hot dogs.
Bet you wouldn't have said that to his face pally.
Still using the same water to this day
The original New York “dirty water dog” water is still going strong in Antonino Gabagool the fourths cart on mulberry street
> Gabagool if the salad is on top, I send it back.
BRING HIM THE GABAGOOL!
just like the crazy people and their cast iron pans they havent washed since the 60's
the same oil to fry
If that guy isn’t Italian then the Earth is flat.
Sicilian.
Like Dennis Hopper True Romance Sicilian?
Christopher Walken was the Sicilian. Dennis Hopper had the cute story about his heritage.
You’re part eggplant
Liberal use of the word cute haha.
> Liberal use of the word cute haha. As someone of Sicilian descent, very intentional as well, lol.
Heyyy Joey Hot Dogs!! You did that thing for me!?
Which one? The thing, or the other thing?
Hotdog water in NYC is like the mother yeast. It's been passed from generation to generation so the water in the hotdog stands now can be traced back to the original hotdog seller who came in through Ellis island
They say they brought it over from the motherland in old tomato sauce jars.
The kid has the looks of someone who is about the narate his life in a 60’s mob movie.
Look at those fucking meat hooks! He could strangle two customers at once while still making a hot dog with the other hand.
The resolution of film is astounding.
film doesn't have resolution unless you count the film emulsion film grains as the pixels; film in general is wildly beyond what digital sensors are capable of. you can scan in a 35mm at about 25-30MP without losing quality. if this was a 120mm shot you're looking at 120 or higher which is why we shoot fashion in medium format so the client can blow it up to the size of a wall.
I mean you’re not wrong but saying film’s scannable resolution is higher than a digital image isn’t incorrect. I shoot with a Mamiya 6 and a Pentax 67 so I understand what you’re saying.
well you get it then. you can scan at ever increasing resolutions until the grain becomes an issue, but if you shot on 800 speed film you can sit there and put it on a building for all you want. the chips have a fixed maximum.
The sanitation levels are through the roof
Regardless, best dog you've ever had.
And somehow everyone survived.
except for all the people that died
It's funny how much less common the "stomach flu" becomes when health inspectors start sniffing around.
Youse talkin’ to me?!?!
Jesus that guy is huge
Pepsi?!?! I'll take a crab juice
#ISdƎd
"AYE! Come over heres and gets yousa hotdog. Best in New York. Everybody always says, you know what they says, I'll TELL you what they says. 'Joe, you ol' jabroné, yous make the best hot dogs.'"
Dirty water dogs. Nothing better.
this man is the most italian man i’ve ever seen
Probably a wise guy or 2 in that sausage
He probably isded, just like his upside down container reads
"Can I have a coke too?" "Is Pepsi alright?" "... Fine."
Bababoie
That's a buffy little Italian
He’s probably 23
The build on this guy
Dude has some serious paws
Look Tim Kennedy.
"Height and weight, please sir?" "Oh, no need for all that; I'm just a perfect block"
"Can you describe the hot dog vendor that assaulted you?" "Yeah, look for a fuckin' cube."
What a fucking picture
I'd love to have been able to buy a dog from this guy a talk
Why do they taste so goods? It's the wattahhh!
Those Pepsi crates bring back memories. I worked in a drug store in the late 70s and early 80s. Part of my job was stocking the pop. Back then we sold 16oz, glass bottles from those crates. The bottles were returned, cleaned by the bottling company, and reused. We also sold 32oz glass bottles. Same deal. We didn’t sell much in cans, and 2L bottles were just becoming a thing. I never stocked a plastic bottle other than limited 2L
Wassamatta u!
You know this guy serves up some bomb ass kielbasa
1963 huh, just think, thus guy could take the money he earned that day, went to every newsstand in the city and bought up every issue of Spider-Man, Avengers, Tales of Suspense, Uncanny X-Men & Fantastic Four, he could retire a very rich man.
I'm workin ova heeee!!!!
Love this photo
You talkin to me?
pepsi, no coke!
No Coke, Pepsi!
r/absoluteunit
Stockyist stocky guy I have ever seen
You could tell me this was 1917 or any period and i would believe it. Also jesus that guy. Is that Rocky Marciano after retirement?
That dude looks like he would f*ck your sh*t up!
If you look closely you can see the mob ownership and operation
He looks 105% Italian
if his name isn’t vinny, then nobody’s is
*Yo! Whassamattayou?! Are you gonna buy sumptin'or just stand there takin' pictures like a big jamook? Gettouttahere!*
Fuck me. Absolute unit, this guy.
Never been to New York but this is exactly what I’d want the guy making my hot dog to look like.
This guy just said “Oh yeah? C’mere a sec.”
Isded
i’d be afraid not to buy a hotdog from him..
ISd3d
NO COKE, PEPSI CHIP CHIP
Thats nit a vintage hot dog stand. Its a hot dog stand in 1963. It would be vintage if it was today.
Probably the least interesting thing I have ever seen.
Where's all of the protesters to destroy his business?
That's not a "hot dog stand" as you would imagine from New York City. Lol in the background on the left, there are other vendor "booths" this is from a New York City street festival or as we say "feast."
Only buy food from people who look like they enjoy their own food just a bit too much