Last year, we did an interview for Global-TV about Sins of the City, showing the cameraman a few of the highlights of the naughty little tour. Naturally, the stories of Detective’s Sinclair and Ricci came up and we showed them a picture of the two of them, in an opium den under Chinatown.
The next day, we received a phone call from someone who said they’d seen the interview on TV and were wondering if we’d like some more information about her father. Turns out, her father was Detective Ricci and she had boxes and boxes of newspaper clippings about her father’s incredible career as a police officer.
Ricci was no ordinary officer; he was a minor celebrity in Vancouver, mentioned in the newspaper once or twice a week for another one of his exploits busting the gambling dens, opium houses and brothels in Chinatown. (See our previous blog entry Stalwart Defenders of the City’s Morals go Beyond the Call for more information on Ricci and his partner Det. Sinclair).
Over the next few months, we’ll be pouring through those newspaper clippings and other personal information; many of these stories will be added to the Sins of the City tour this summer, for sure! Down the road, you might even see a book published from this.
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Gotta love how all the dots sometimes connect and help us make magic in the process. Good on the daughter for stepping forward…I love when fate steps in.
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Oops…almost forgot: Tanya sent me. But I’d come on my own…
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