Arthur Lester
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You're saying this is one of the other two's doing.
I'm saying for many years we've had peace.
No one touched the other's part of town.
Sure, there's bleed over here and there.
But it was understood.
There's plenty of the city to go around.
Says the guy with the mayor in his dining room.
Southside always had the government.
At least the officials.
Because they all wanted to dance and sing and drink.
We owned the docks.
And the docks brought in the booze.
And the booze needed to be protected.
What did the other sides have?
Puckett had the east.
The downtown core.
Financial district.
He may have also been up against the water, but he didn't have the docs.