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916 Main Street <br />Hartronft Associates, pc <br />2.0.3 Bug Dust pool hall- 1948-53 <br />2.0.4 Close up of Bug Dust pool hall-1948-53 <br />Historic Structure Assessment <br />October 10, 2023 <br />Illegal Gambling Taking Place at John Madonna's Bug Dust Pool Hall; Smaldone Brothers' <br />Organized Crime Activities <br />John Madonna, Jr. (1918-2022) was born in Louisville, Colorado to parents (John Madonna, Sr. <br />and Marguerite Perna) who had been born in Italy. They were drawn to work opportunities in <br />Colorado, with John Sr. arriving in the late 1800s and Marguerite immigrating in 1908. They <br />married in 1910 in southern Colorado, where John Sr. worked as a coal miner. In 1913, they <br />moved to Louisville, and John Sr. continued to be a coal miner. <br />John Jr. was one of at least 10 children in this branch of the Madonna family that settled in <br />Louisville. He graduated from Louisville High School in 1936, as did his wife, Lula Belle Fletcher. <br />Page 8of51 <br />