Henry Zebrowski
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Being born in 1926, Jimmy Savile was a part of the World War II generation.
But while many English families struggled during the war, the Saviles did just fine as the Nazis did their best to bring England to its knees because Vince Savile was deeply connected to the Leeds black market.
Jimmy was also involved in that black market.
And he claimed that when he was 14 years old, he began hanging out at a dangerous Leeds dance hall called the Mecca Locarno.
Now, the Mecca dance halls were a chain that had locations all over England.
They were very popular.
And as the war dragged on, the Mecca dance halls in each English city became focal points for the communities, a place where everyone could go and relax and maybe forget about the Blitz for a second.
But it just so happened that the community in Leeds, it was as sleazy as they came.
And as Savile put it, while hanging out at the Mecca Locarno, he became the confidant of murderers, whores, black marketeers, and crooks of every trade, as well as the innocent people they preyed upon.
In fact, Savile claimed that he once saw a dismembered corpse stuffed in luggage and left out behind the Mecca Locarno dance hall.
But we unfortunately couldn't find any details to confirm this claim.
Could be true.
Most likely, I think it is true.
Yeah.
But regardless of whether or not this is a tall tale, Jimmy Savile was always proud of his grimy beginnings.
And if any of it is true, then it means that Savile experienced all this and he chose to stick around because the Mecca Locarno looms large in Savile's history.
you saying that that makes like a sense that's the thing right is that if it's true he experienced it and he's like i'm fine with it i like this yeah yes it's his it's where he was born yeah yeah now part of the reason why salvo was able to tolerate all the bad shit happening around the dance hall was because jimmy had always been a sociopath he openly said that he often and this is something that he like wrote in his book
He often wondered why people wept during the war when one of their relatives were killed.
He couldn't understand why people were sad when other people died.
He said that he was more, quote, inquiring than affected.