Identifier	LeedyPostCard037a.jpg
Title	Captain Frank Features
Subject	Restaurants
Description	"Call 'em scampy or shrimp, city is now critters' capital. It sounds like a fish story when you tell how Cleveland is becoming the scampy center of America. That's natural because scampies are seafood. They are king-size shrimp. They weigh a quarter of a pound each, and they make shrimp-size look like-well, like little shrimps. Fish merchants Frank F. Visconti of the Fulton Fish Co., who is the "Captain Frank" of the restaurant on the E. 9th Street Pier, happened to be in Florida, in January. He happened to hop over to Havana, Cuba, one day. He happened to arrive at the fish wharves there just when the first shipload of scampies ever imported to this side of the world came in and docked. In from India, the boat had lugged a trial shipment, 3,000 pounds of frozen scampies, to see if occidentals would like this oriental delicacy. Visconti's eyes and pocket book opened wide when he saw shrimps with all that heft to them. He brought the whole batch. In fact, he made a deal with the Cuban fish importer to take all future boatloads, becoming the North American distributor. Scampies are not for dunking in cocktail sauce. It would take a fishbowl to held them anyhow. Split, buttered, broiled and lightly doused with sherry brandy, garlic, parsely, and more butter, a scampy - mmmh! Until his next boatload arrives in about six weeks, Visconti said hew will sell them only by the hot platterful at his lakefront restaurant, not over an fish counter, not to any other food spot. An import himself - from Palermo - Visconti was blowing a red, white and blue fishorn and yelling "Pesci Vivi! on the streets here 41 years ago. And now look at him, the scampy tycoon of this entire continent.! - By Todd Simon in the Cleveland Plain Dealer" -- card verso.
Location Depicted	Cleveland (Ohio)
Time Period	Decline and Comeback: 1960-1990
Object Type	postcards
Size of Original	3 x 5 in.
Digital Collection	Postcards of Cleveland
Collection Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/postcards
Donor	Leedy, Walter C.
Donor Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/postcards/leedy.html
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	Jpeg
Photo Number	TR 18142/343 appears on card verso.
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Postcards of Cleveland
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/

Captain Frank Features

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