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Remembering legendary New Jersey comedian Lou Costello
Costello was born as Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson in 1906 and grew up there.
In his 20s, he hitchhiked out to California to become an actor but did not find immediate success. He bounced around for several years. According to the Los Angeles Times, he worked jobs ranging from a newsboy, soda fountain clerk and salesman to a movie stunt man, before finally hitting the road to perform as a comedian in burlesque shows.
He was doing that when he met Bud Abbott and they began performing together regularly in 1936, starting a long, lucrative partnership.
By Ray Hill
As 1945 came to a close, the Second World War had been won by the Allied nations. Adolf Hitler had shot himself in his underground bunker as the Red Army overran his capital of Berlin. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, had been executed by his own people and strung up by his heels at a filling station, along with the bodies of his mistress and several compatriots where their corpses were abused by angry citizens. The Japanese Empire had crumbled with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, who was considered a living god by his subjects, ordered his government to sue for peace. Truman’s decision may have saved as many as one million American lives.