Joey Vento, the proprietor of Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia, died of a heart attack. Wyatt Notes:
While he was definitely old school in his views, Joey was a terrific man. He always went out of his way to support the city’s police officers and firefighters, and loved this city very much.
I still remember meeting Wyatt and Rightwingprof at Geno’s a few years ago, before Rightwingprof passed away from cancer. While the news is certainly sad, if my main business were peddling cheesesteaks, I can’t think of a more poetic way to go. Better than cancer, to be sure, which I’ve seen enough people die from to think much of.
Not only does Geno’s have the best cheesesteaks on earth, I love the place because Vento was a great American. Such sad news. I’ll never forget the first time I went there and saw the memorial for Daniel Faulkner with the correct and appropriate “Murdered by Mumia Abu Jamal.” I told my girlfriend (now wife) “I like this place.”
Joey had surgery for colon cancer early this year, but yeah, if you’re going to go, a heart attack is better than cancer. I despise that despicable disease.