Five Points Pillows
Description: Joe. The signature of a book store owner? Name of a Birmingham bar? Sponsor for a late-‘80s adult soccer league team? Yes, yes and yes! If you remember the 1980s and 90s on the Southside of Birmingham, Alabama, then you probably had a drink at Joe (Joe Bar). Or at least you should have. It was originally located in the studio arts building in Five Points South until it burned in 1986. Joe moved to the Lakeview District on 7th Avenue South and eventually a house on 29th Street South.
Description: The Gopher Gang was an early 20th-century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James "Biff" Ellison, and Owney Madden born in England of Irish ancestry. Based in the Irish neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, the Gopher Gang grew to control most of Manhattan with their territory covering Fourth to Forty-Second Street and Seventh to Eleventh Avenue.
Description: The Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century. Formed in the late 1890s by "Circular Jack", "Kid Yorke", and "Goo Goo Knox", the gang began operating from an apartment house on Hudson Street. Knox, a former member of the Gopher Gang, had fled after a failed attempt to gain leadership of the gang from then-leader Marty Brennan. However the two gangs later became allies during the gang wars against Gay Nineties gangs, the Potashes and Boodle Gangs, soon controlling most of Manhattan's West Side as far as 13th Street and eastern Broadway, bordering Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang to the north. While the gang dominated the West Side, it constantly battled smaller rival gangs including the Fashion Plates.
