Boston bar stirs outrage with its mobster mugshots as decor
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BOSTON — File this one under "Boston bar fight." But it's not your typical brawl over a jealous boyfriend or a spilled beer. This dust-up is about décor, and at the center of the trouble are some of Boston's most notorious mobsters: James "Whitey" Bulger, now deceased, and his partner in crime, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, now serving life behind bars.
The place is the Savin Bar + Kitchen, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, where immediately inside the front door, patrons are greeted by a larger-than-life framed mugshot of Bulger — the mob-boss, murderer, bank robber, drug dealer and extortionist — peering cooly out from under his fedora.
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"Funny enough, a lot of people have said, 'Oh, he's very good looking," says Savin co-owner Kenneth Osherow.
But that's exactly what's making many locals upset.
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