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My Godfather Was Joe Conforte, Nevada’s King of Prostitution

He owned the country’s most famous brothel, Mustang Ranch

12 min readJan 25, 2021

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My Godfather Was Joe Conforte, Nevada’s King of Prostitution

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Reunion

1–2–3–4–5–6–7 All Good Children Go to Heaven

11 min readAug 31, 2023

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Reunion

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Great piece!

Renting of private halls and hiring local bands for dances was fairly common during the period before Graham et al. turned this into a…

1 min readJul 31, 2021

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On Remembering Alessandro Baccari Jr. — ‘Mr. North Beach’

Baccari was renowned for being a walking oral history of North Beach

10 min readJul 30, 2021

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On Remembering Alessandro Baccari Jr. — ‘Mr. North Beach’

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Charles Versaggi

Getting Down to Bare Bones on Halloween

Everyone appreciates me on Halloween night. Surely, Hollywood would never be the same had it not been for my naked visage horrifying you…

7 min readOct 3, 2020

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Getting Down to Bare Bones on Halloween

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‘Buone Feste’: Celebrating Christmas in 1950s North Beach

Our Sicilian feast and the perennial bottle of 7Up

8 min readDec 17, 2019

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‘Buone Feste’: Celebrating Christmas in 1950s North Beach

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Inside the Oldest Jewelry Studio in the United States

Three generations of jewelry design and sculpture thrive in North Beach

6 min readNov 8, 2019

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Inside the Oldest Jewelry Studio in the United States

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One Degree of Separation and a Bicycle

Text and photos © Charles Versaggi

20 min readJul 30, 2018

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One Degree of Separation and a Bicycle

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Dignity, Honor, Respect — A Spirit’s Last Journey with the Green Street Mortuary Band

A tradition to honor the dead and give them a final farewell to Chinatown

7 min readJun 13, 2018

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Dignity, Honor, Respect — A Spirit’s Last Journey with the Green Street Mortuary Band

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight—A Dawn Walk Through SF’s Nightclub District, in Photos

A visual journey through one of the city’s few remaining old-world neighborhoods

5 min readApr 25, 2018

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight—A Dawn Walk Through SF’s Nightclub District, in Photos

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Charles Versaggi

Charles Versaggi

A SF North Beach native, I’ve seen Bagdad by the Bay go through many transformations. So many stories to write & photograph. I love SF. See charlesversaggi.com

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