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Noticing a giant Home Depot down the road, former American gangster Frank Lucas responds, "Look at this sh@t. What would Bumpy do? Go in and ask to see the assistant manager?
Place is so big, you get lost past the bathroom sinks.
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But that's the way it is now. You can't find the heart of anything to stick the knife into." -New York Magazine, 2000
Questioning the Story:
Did Frank Lucas's mentor, Bumpy Johnson, really die in an appliance store?
No.The American Gangstertrue story reveals that Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson died in 1968 while eating at Wells Restaurant on Lenox Avenue in New York City (Philadelphia Daily News). The movie's location of an appliance store was used to represent Bumpy's disgust with the larger chain stores that were moving into his territory.
These stores made it hard or nearly impossible for him to collect a cut of the profits. This scene relates to the Frank Lucas quote underneath the above Reel Faces p