It took me way too long to find an appropriate paper clip from the 1930’s. I finally settled on this smart little guy called an owl clip, handsome fella isn’t he?

I watched this movie a few weeks ago called the roaring twenties. James Cagney played this character who’s story was a lot like Riskin’s, minus the demon hand of course. It was a great story about how so many small time gangsters were just out of business after the repeal of prohibition. In the movie the only thing James Cagney’s character held on to was one taxi cab out of hundreds that he used to smuggle alcohol in. I pictured Riskin the same way, except the one thing he was able to hold on to from his old life was the sports car.

My favorite line from roaring twenties:

“It was a dangerous, lawless, high tension era, that will grow more and more incredible with each passing year, until someday people will say it never could have happened at all.”  -1939