Who Am I? January 2020

I was born to immigrant Lithuanian parents just a stone's throw from what would later become Exit 100A on the GSP. My dad, Mores, was born in Lithuania and trained there as a kosher butcher
before he emigrated to the U.S.  As a young fellow in the early 1930’s I helped my dad deliver home fuel oil. I had to reorganize his company after he went bust. At the tail end of the Great Depression I built and owned my own oil terminal in Perth Amboy which I constructed out of old oil tankers. I bid and won Federal contracts and I was on my way to bigger and better things.

 During WWII I rose to the rank of major. In the army I served under “Old Blood and Guts” and acquired a lot of logistical experience as a petroleum supply expert and that knowledge served me well later on. After the war I made my money in refining crude oil and around 1960 began operating a string of filling stations. I personally negotiated with the Libyan leaders and with the late Shah of Iran. It's true that I started out small but before long I was running with the big dogs. 

For a time, I was considered a Democratic Party insider. I was a big supporter of Henry ‘Scoop’
Jackson during his presidential bid and considered him and Stewart Udall, a Secretary of Interior, as friends of mine.  I was always just a little camera shy so there aren't a lot of publicity pictures of me out there. I was a benefactor of Lincoln Center and the Boys Clubs of America. At one point I decided to invest in a major local sports franchise that was
later to cross the Hudson River and call the Meadowlands in north Jersey home. Actually, it
was "Broadway Joe" that put us on the map with a big time upset win in an important widely-watched contest. That’s me, the old codger in the top photo below. Below me is “Broadway Joe.”  

(1a)Who am I? (1b) Who was “Old Blood and Guts?” (2)Which team did I invest in? (3a)What
year did we win that big game and (3b) Who did we play against? (3c) What was the final score?  (3d) Who actually is “Broadway Joe?”(4) I was a stickler for neatness and insisted that the color scheme in my filling station bathrooms be green and white. Why those colors in particular? (5)What ever happened to my string of gas stations?