Larry Fay
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Larry Fay (1888–January 1, 1933) was one of the early rumrunners of the Prohibition Era in New York City. With his profits he bought into a taxi cab company, and later opened a nightclub, the El Fay, on West Forty-seventh Street in New York City, featuring Texas Guinan as the emcee and a floorshow produced by Nils Granlund.[1]
Fay, who had a record of 49 arrests but no felony convictions, was involved in several enterprises in the ensuing years, and was said to amassed and lost a fortune. He was made a partner of the Casa Blanca Club, where was shot and killed after a New Year's Eve celebration by the club's doorman who had just learned his pay was being reduced by Fay to accommodate a new employee.[2]
