Despite the police pay-offs, Mafia-run establishments were not exempt from state laws, and owners were prepared for regular raids. If a bar was shut down by police or the SLA, most owners could ...

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The 105-year-old building was once a Mafia bar and illegal casino. A 1988 fire gutted the structure. The Yellow House bar, built in 1915 and gutted by fire in 1988, has been razed. For three ...

But Ybor City leaders are celebrating the forthcoming restoration of a building best known as the mafia-owned Yellow House bar — once a center of illegal gambling and prostitution. "I've heard ...