Abe Saffron at Kings Cross, Sydney, 1950
Abe Saffron, Kings Cross, Sydney, 22 September 1950.
By the end of the twentieth century Abe Saffron was one of Sydney’s most prominent organised crime figures. In the 1940s he started selling black-market alcohol and by 1950, when this photo was taken, he was part owner of the Roosevelt, a notorious Kings Cross nightclub. In 1953, the club was closed after being declared a ‘disorderly house’ by the New South Wales Police Commissioner.
Pix magazine photographer
from film negative
presented by ACP Magazines Ltd, 2008, ON 388/Box 077/Item 279 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6DRLzY/joGJ5p002ed49628875
Abe Saffron at Kings Cross, Sydney, 1950
Abe Saffron, Kings Cross, Sydney, 22 September 1950.
By the end of the twentieth century Abe Saffron was one of Sydney’s most prominent organised crime figures. In the 1940s he started selling black-market alcohol and by 1950, when this photo was taken, he was part owner of the Roosevelt, a notorious Kings Cross nightclub. In 1953, the club was closed after being declared a ‘disorderly house’ by the New South Wales Police Commissioner.
Pix magazine photographer
from film negative
presented by ACP Magazines Ltd, 2008, ON 388/Box 077/Item 279 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nX6DRLzY/joGJ5p002ed49628875