Tom Vartabedian
Vartabedian: Bulger’s Winter Hill Gang Hits Home
My cousin Richard Vartabedian and I had something very much in common. As sons of enterprising Armenian dads, we worked inside their luncheonettes as young entrepreneurs.
Our shops were located a half-mile apart along the Broadway section of Somerville; more specifically, Winter Hill, where the Whitey Bulger mob roamed.
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some of us were not as fortunate with extended families, always on the move for a better paycheck living like a gypsy like many people of my race but reading stories of close families and their achievements
is like a child reading about prince charming, I don’t know any of the people in the article but it makes me part of a family
Lovely story, thanks. But please correct the egregious reference to Bill Bulger as having had a ‘mob’. If anything he should be referenced here as someone with similar roots who worked hard at school, devoted his life to his family and community.