Pretty Boy Floyd

2020-10-22

Charles Arthur Floyd
aka Pretty Boy Floyd
February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934

I was never one to pursue a life of crime. My exploits were more of a laziness, trash talking bent whereby I was in trouble for either mouthing off or crass commentary. This too abated later in my years as I grew weary of the same old bothers they caused me to incur.

There was a gangster named Charles Arthur Floyd who went by the nickname "Pretty Boy" who robbed banks and gained widespread recognition for burning mortgage documents and other debt instruments during the course of his criminal exploits.

His positive image with the public didn't save him from being killed by a group of Bureau of Investigation agents leaad by Melvin Purvis. His decedent affairs likewise were a sideshow of publicity and photo opportunities which were utilized in the public dissemination of his end.

Pretty Boy Floyd has continuously been familiar in American popular culture. Like him or love him ... all too many of us have heard of him — either as notorious or tragic and even a victim of the widespread devastation and hardships of the Great Depression.

He lived a short life of a mere 30 years but impacted his world as very few have. That allure with the criminal doesn't really carry over to these times as the selfishness of today's criminal element render them more dastardly than anything else notable.